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Does Ignorance Matter? The Relative Importance of Civic Knowledge and the Human Tendency to Engage in Motivated Reasoning

Journal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs, 2015
It has long been understood that political knowledge in the U.S. is very low. For those who care about the quality of American democracy, this is a big problem. In attempting to find a solution, many people often blame education.
Aaron Dusso, Sheila Suess Kennedy
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Using Response Times to Enhance the Reliability of Political Knowledge Items: An Application to the 2015 Swiss Post-Election Survey

Survey Research Methods, 2021
In this article, I consider the problem of "cheating" in political knowledge tests. This problem has been made more pressing by the transition of many surveys to online interviewing, opening up the possibility of looking up the correct answers on the ...
Lionel Marquis
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Widening or Closing the Knowledge Gap?

Nordicom Review, 2013
The public has gradually become more dependent on the mass media for their political information as alternative channels of political communication have been marginalized. Political knowledge is not equally distributed, and according to the knowledge gap
Jenssen Anders Todal
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Partisan heart and/or rational mind? Party identification, political knowledge and electoral turnout [PDF]

Psihologija, 2018
This paper aims at analysing the relationship between positive and negative party identification and political knowledge, as well as their interplay in regard to electoral turnout. The data from the Serbian 2012 post-election public opinion survey on the
Pavlović Zoran, Todosijević Bojan
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Parlasent: mapping sentiment in political discourse with large language models

Political Research Exchange
This paper introduces ParlaSent, a deep learning model for multilingual sentiment analysis, specifically designed to study sentiment in political discourse.
Michal Mochtak, Peter Rupnik, Taja Kuzman, Nikola Ljubešić   +3 more
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Media Use and Misperceptions

Nordicom Review, 2010
There is considerable evidence that many people generally misperceive the size of the immigrant population in their country, and that this may have essential political implications.
Aalberg Toril, Strabac Zan
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Atitudes, cognição e participação política: padrões de influência dos ambientes de socialização sobre o perfil político dos jovens

Opinião Pública, 2012
O debate sobre o papel da socialização na aquisição de conhecimento, na formação das atitudes e no padrão de participação política do jovem nos lembra, constantemente, que a família e a escola são os ambientes definidores nesse processo.
Mario Fuks
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The role of socio-demographic determinants in the geo-spatial distribution of newly diagnosed HIV infections in small areas of Catalonia (Spain)

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Spatial visualization of HIV surveillance data could improve the planning of programs to address the HIV epidemic. The objectives of the study were to describe the characteristics and the spatial distribution of newly diagnosed HIV infection ...
Cristina Agustí, Núria Font-Casaseca, Francesc Belvis, Mireia Julià, Núria Vives, Alexandra Montoliu, Juan M. Pericàs, Jordi Casabona, Joan Benach   +8 more
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Debating Europe: Effects of the “Eurovision Debate” on EU Attitudes of Young German Voters and the Moderating Role Played by Political Involvement

Politics and Governance, 2016
In the run-up to the elections to the European Parliament in 2014, EU citizens had the unprecedented opportunity to watch televised debates between the candidates running for president of the European Commission.
Jürgen Maier, Berthold Rittberger, Thorsten Faas   +2 more
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Possibilities and perspectives of participation of older minors in electoral processes in Montenegro

Revija za socijalna politika, 2023
The youth population in Montenegro constitutes a demographic of strong significance for study. The theme that stands out is their involvement in conventional forms of political participation.
Nina Krivokapić, Mehmed Đečević
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