Politics

Chris Perry blogs on how the World Bank's World Development Report 2015: Mind, Society, and Behavior has generated a great deal of excitement.

December's Economist/Ipsos issues index shows that two-fifths (42%) of the public place immigration amongst the most important issues facing Britain, an increase of five percentage points since last month, and the highest level of concern in over six years.

Conservatives retain poll lead. Farage's satisfaction rating falls.

Ipsos's Political Monitor for December shows a majority believe the Conservatives would cut too much if they win the 2015 general election.

Oliver Sweet, head of Ethnography, watched behavioural economics intervention in action during two of the major events of 2014.

New polling and analysis from Ipsos shows that after 11 months of the year, 2014 is on course to have the lowest combined voting share for the Conservative and Labour parties since we started regular polling in 1978.

Steve Ginnis of Ipsos and Carl Miller of Demos write in the Guardian on our analysis of tweets during Chancellor George Osborne's autumn statement.

Ipsos' latest Financial Security Monitor, a monthly survey carried out across 24 countries around individuals' financial security, shows European countries continuing to feel relatively financially insecure - six out of the eight bottom countries in our FS Monitor are EU member states.

How to motivate people in their jobs and in their lives has been a conundrum in our society for centuries – even Aristotle grappled with this during his lifetime. So how do companies motivate people in their jobs in the 21st century?