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The Influence of Climate Change Efficacy Messages and Efficacy Beliefs on Intended Political Participation.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Using an online survey experiment with a national sample, this study examined how changing the type and valence of efficacy information in news stories discussing global climate change may impact intended political participation through the mediators of ...
P Sol Hart, Lauren Feldman
doaj   +1 more source

Examining political participation in Lithuania: The direct and mediated effects of social trust

open access: yesBaltic Journal of Political Science, 2021
This article investigates the effects of social trust, both direct and mediated – via internal and external efficacy – on different forms of political participation in post-communist Lithuania.
Teodora Gaidytė, Jasper Muis
doaj   +1 more source

Concepts of bounded agency in education, work, and the personal lives of young adults [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper traces the development of a series of Anglo-German studies on how young adults experience control and exercise personal agency as they pass through periods of transition in education and training, work, unemployment and in their personal lives.
Evans, Karen
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Does Becoming a Politician Increase Internal Political Efficacy and Satisfaction with Democracy? Evidence from a Longitudinal Panel of Councillors in Sweden

open access: yesRepresentation, 2020
Being elected to a governing body for the first time has been described as both a unique and transforming experience. Accordingly, theorists of elite political socialisation assume that deepened political participation fosters internal political efficacy
Gissur Ó. Erlingsson, Emanuel Wittberg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Improving the availability of biopesticides : an interdisciplinary research project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There is a need for new, biologically-based crop protection products to serve as alternatives to or to complement synthetic chemical pesticides. An interdisciplinary research team from the natural and social sciences considered whether regulatory ...
Chandler, Dave   +4 more
core   +1 more source

What is the best proxy for political knowledge in surveys?

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Online surveys are becoming the dominant form for survey data collection. This presents a problem for the measurement of political knowledge, because, according to recent scholarship, unsupervised measurement of political knowledge in web-based surveys ...
Lauri Rapeli
doaj   +2 more sources

The opposing roles of patriotism and nationalism in explaining trust in a political system

open access: yesSocial Sciences and Humanities Open
The present study was designed to deepen the understanding of national identity as a predictor of political trust. The concept of national identity was subdivided into nationalism and patriotism.
Ivars Austers   +4 more
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Uji Validitas Konstruk Skala Political Trust dan Political Efficacy

open access: yesJurnal Pengukuran Psikologi dan Pendidikan Indonesia, 2019
Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menguji validitas konstruk dari skala political trust yang dimodifikasi dari skala yang disusun oleh Loeber (2011) dan political efficacy dimodifikasi dari skala yang disusun oleh Craig, Niemi, Silver (1990 ...
Restiani Fauzie
doaj   +1 more source

Alternative Measures of Political Efficacy: The Quest for Cross-Cultural Invariance With Ordinally Scaled Survey Items

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2021
In this paper, we examine the measurement of citizens’ beliefs that politicians and political systems are responsive (external efficacy) and that citizens see themselves sufficiently skilled to participate in politics (internal efficacy).
Thomas J. Scotto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The politics of the teaching of reading [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Historically, political debates have broken out over how to teach reading in primary schools and infant classrooms. These debates and “reading wars” have often resulted from public concerns and media reportage of a fall in reading standards.
A Luke   +34 more
core   +1 more source

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