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Listening to the Public: An Inductive Analysis of the Good Citizen in a Deliberative System

open access: yesJournal 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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Social Support, Gender and the Roots of Political Efficacy: Evidence from the Swiss Household Panel

open access: yesSwiss 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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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
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Women in Democracy: The political participation of women

open access: yesMasyarakat, 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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Political Efficacy

open access: yes, 2023
A fundamental question asked in early survey-based political communication research is whether people feel that their political actions can affect political processes. Research has consistently shown the centrality of this political attitude, known as “political efficacy,” for democratic functioning. In recent research, political communication scholars
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ICTs, Openness and Citizen Perceptions of Government: How Civic Technologies Can Facilitate External Citizen Efficacy

open access: yesMedijske 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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Social Media Content Preferences and Political Participation among Nigerian Youths

open access: yesRomanian 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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From Political Interest to Participation in EU-related Actions: The Mediating Role of European Identity and Political Efficacy

open access: yesΨυχολογία: το Περιοδικό της Ελληνικής Ψυχολογικής Εταιρείας, 2019
European youth’s civic engagement and political participation in EU-related issues is a timely imperative. Research findings on youth citizenship range from political apathy to alternative forms of participation, although theoretical evidence remains ...
Vassilis Pavlopoulos   +2 more
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Nudge politics: efficacy and ethics [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2013
Nudge politics capitalize on psychological insights on human behavior to inform central policies. The scope for such policies to bring about large improvements in individual behavior for relatively little cost has captured the imagination of governments worldwide.
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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
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