How opinion polls affect voting in Bangkok's gubernatorial election

In response to the widely publicized failure of most pollsters to predict the winner of the Bangkok governor election on 3 March 2013, this study examined the published results of opinion polls in the news media to see how they had affected the voter preference and what errors existed. The study analyzed a series of poll results by five major pollsters for the pre-election and exit polls during the governor election campaign from January to March 2013 and, then, compared them with the final results of governor election. The poll results lent partial support to the spiral of silence theory. Among all pollsters, only NIDA Poll projected the right prediction for Democrat candidate M. R. Sukhumbhand Paribatra as the winner. Its pre-election polls showed his final victory occurring in the last leg of the election campaign as a result of the late swing voters against the ruling Pheu Thai Party attaining monopoly on power. Suan Dusit and Abac Polls showed the existence of the bandwagon effect for Pheu Thai candidate Pol. Gen. Pongsapat Pongcharoen. Besides their polling effects, major factors accounting for errors included shy Democrat factor, late swing of voters, sampling error, and nonresponse bias.     

人民利益至高无上——试析宪法根本原则在一份民事判决中的应用

法院裁判应严格遵循人民利益至高无上这一宪法根本原则，通过审判权的行使来调整利益冲突，保障公民诉权，保护公民合法财产，尊重弱势群体利益，维护社会公平与正义.     

网络新词“屌丝”英译的文化解读

网络流行语“屌丝”常被译为“underdog”。该文论述了对“屌丝”的文化内涵误读的原因,指出了目前英译存在的问题,并提出了解决的方法和相应的翻译原则。