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Neighbors Vote for Neighbors, Eurovision Power Moves East
Posted by george on 14th May 2007
From today’s BBC Radio 4 “PM” program blog. This graphic…
…comes from some academic work published last year which examined the dynamics of Eurovision voting. We’re going to be talking about it tonight. Want to read more?
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Oh and we’ve received this news release from Richard Younger-Ross MP:
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“Amidst the celebrations of the Serbian victory in Helsinki on Saturday night, the failure of the UK to get more than 19 votes, placing it second to bottom above Ireland, has prompted Devon MP Richard Younger-Ross to question the voting system for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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‘Said Mr Younger-Ross, “Whilst I congratulate Serbia on its success, it is interesting to note that every part of the former federation of Yugoslavia gave Serbia maximum votes and in fact four out of the top five countries were east European or Balkan. Certainly the appearance of block voting makes the outcome more predictable now the contest has been opened up to the people and the old panel voting abandoned.”
Seems to support what I just wrote about power in Europe shifting to the East.
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