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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2022 Internet memes have become a popular format for expressing individual political opinions in social media. Based on a quantitative online survey of political Internet meme users from fringe web communities and sharing platforms (n = 482), this study ...
Michael Johann
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Political Research Exchange, 2023 The paper interprets populism as a symptom of a mismatch between how the democratic polity operates and how citizens conceive their own aspirations, needs and identities vis-à-vis the polity.
Márton Bene, Zsolt Boda
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Women in Democracy: The political participation of women
Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2019 Political participation of women has improved significantly in many western democracy settings; in Asian countries however, women are still left behind in terms of political participation.
Akhlaq Ahmad +3 more
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Listening to the Public: An Inductive Analysis of the Good Citizen in a Deliberative System
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2022 Significant research has demonstrated that deliberative participation has a number of benefits for participants, leaving them more informed, efficacious, and engaged.
Katherine Knobloch
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Political efficacy and participation [PDF]
OECD Working Papers on Public Governance, 2021 The active participation of citizens is the lifeblood of any functioning democracy. But what drives people’s willingness to participate in political life? A key driver is their self-perception of their ability to understand political processes and to influence change through their action.
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Social Support, Gender and the Roots of Political Efficacy: Evidence from the Swiss Household Panel
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2023 This study explores how social support, defined as the number and quality of close relationships, affects feelings of political influence. Using Swiss Household Panel data (1999–2018), it reveals that the quality of relationships (emotional support ...
Lindholm Annika
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Medijske Studije, 2016 This article examines whether civic technologies deliver an effective technique for developing the political efficacy of citizens and altering their perceived accountability of governments.
Rebecca Rumbul
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Examining political participation in Lithuania: The direct and mediated effects of social trust
Baltic 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
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Social Media Content Preferences and Political Participation among Nigerian Youths
Romanian Journal of Communications and Public Relations, 2022 This study examines the influence of social media content preferences on political participation in Nigeria’s relatively nascent democracy. Due to mixed conclusions on the influence of news and entertainment preferences on political participation, we ...
Mande Ande Mande +4 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2023 This study surveyed a random sample of social media users (N = 813) to examine how following political social media influencers (PSMIs) affects political interest and political trust.
Ben Wasike
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