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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Political efficacy"”.
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Deliberative Democracy: The Effects of Participation on Political Efficacy
… and equal citizens, and internal and external political efficacy. Internal political efficacy is the extent to which people feel they can competently participate in politics; external political efficacy is the extent to which people feel that government is responsive to their interests. Some …
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Perceptions Of Corruption & External Political Efficacy: Regime Stability & Democratic Legitimacy
Do perceptions of corruption affect external political efficacy? If so, how? This paper investigates whether perceptions of corruption contribute to external efficacy on the aggregate, country level, and on the individual level. This paper seeks to expand the scope of the current corruption and …
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Examining the Association between Teacher Political Efficacy and Educational Policy Engagement
… question instrument designed to measure teacher political efficacy and engagement was developed and administered. Demographic variables were analyzed to determine possible factors influencing efficacy and engagement. Findings showed that female teachers are predicted to participate more …
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Old Measures, New Implications: The Meaning of Political Efficacy across Political Contexts
… in citizens’ feelings of influence upon the political process, namely, political efficacy. For that purpose, this work is structured in three main parts which aim to explain how contextual factors can affect feelings of efficacy and, the sources of cross-national commonalities and …
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Social media and individual and collective activism : the role of interdependence and online political efficacy
… may facilitate and support not only individual political participation but also collective activism. A stream of research has examined Internet use and political participation by including the concept of internal political efficacy. However, this concept only takes into account individual …
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Civic and political involvement among young adults: Exploring political talk, political efficacy and political participation in a community context
… research on uses and gratifications by exploring political information-seeking uses of the Internet and social networking sites (SNS) and their relationships with political efficacy and political participation. Approximately 300 young adults completed a survey covering information-seeking, …
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PATHWAYS TO DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP: THE MEDIATING ROLES OF DELIBERATION AND POLITICAL EFFICACY IN THE EFFECTS OF OLD AND NEW MEDIA USE ON POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN SOUTH KOREA
… than three decades, citizen engagement in the political process in South Korea was strictly hampered by the harsh control of the public sphere by authoritarian regimes and mainstream media's failure to provide a democratic public forum. With the penetration of online and social media, the …
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Self-efficacy beliefs and young people's political participation
Political efficacy is one of the strongest predictors of adults’ political participation, but it has been less studied among young people. General self-efficacy has been considered a possible causal factor for young people to engage in politics. These constructs, in addition to young people’s …
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Political Participation of Registered Nurses: A Correlational Study
… and provides a base line description of the political participation of nurses practicing in hospitals. The study explores the relationships between political participation and the variables: self-esteem, personal control, political efficacy and critical thinking. The theoretical framework for …
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Evaluating civic technology design for citizen empowerment
… engagement with their platform. Research from political and developmental psychology shows the importance to lifelong civic engagement of learning experiences that cultivate a citizen's perception they can make change (political efficacy) and their belief in having responsibilities to the …
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Latino Voters in the United States: Mobilization and Mechanisms of Engagement Through Political Parties, Campaign Contact and Non-Partisan Organizations
<p>This study investigates the low political participation of Latinos in the United States, focusing on the strategies used by political parties, campaigns and non-partisan organization to increase voter turnout, as well as the mechanisms through which these strategies affect voting behavior. …
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Essays on the Role of Identity in Economic and Political Behavior
… in the domains of education, work, and political participation. The first essay studies beliefs about experiencing racial or gender discrimination, or perceived discrimination, and its consequences for worker behavior. Using a large randomized controlled trial (RCT, N=5,000) in a …
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Deliberating in an Emergency: Participant Experiences and Public Perceptions of Deliberative Mini-Publics on Climate Change in Canada and the United Kingdom
… particularly in terms of their implications for political behaviour and public opinion. The first study compares the political efficacy and behaviour of DMP members before and one year after participating in a DMP (Climate Assembly UK). This study shows that members reported higher internal …
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Affective Intelligence, The Political Persuasion Process, And Outcome Intent: An Experimental Test
Political communication scholars aim to understand the effect of messages on political attitudes and behavior. Past scholarship has identified three sources of influence in forming attitudes and behavior: affective, cognitive, and personality factors. While much attention has been paid to the …
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"The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form
… and do and reframes discussion of the practice's political efficacy by focusing on how documentaries enact ideological critiques through form and seek to reeducate the senses of audiences through pedagogies of reception.
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It's not always about the issues: The role of perceived personality trait similarity on interpersonal political discussion.
… the relationship between personality traits and political attitudes, opinions and behaviors. One specific line of inquiry has been on the direct and mediated influence of personality traits on interpersonal political discussion behaviors. Interpersonal political discussion among citizens has long …
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The political consequences of trauma
… terrorist attacks, and natural disasters for political behavior, we lack a comprehensive understanding of how and why trauma affects one’s orientations toward government and their engagement with politics. This dissertation provides a framework for understanding the relationship between trauma …
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Democracy in Ukraine after the Orange Revolution : youth activists' insights on past events, present efficacy, and future prospects
… Their perceptions of the revolutionary events, political self-efficacy as one of the identifiers of civil society, and futures of democracy in Ukraine will help to depict the socio-political climate inside the country and in Europe. The dissertation employs three research methods: content …
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Against against affect (again) : æffect in Kenneth Goldsmith's Seven American deaths and disasters
… is concerned with affect's relationship with political efficacy, a relationship I call “æffect.” I make the case that because of its use of appropriated material, we must examine the transformation from source text to poetic work when discussing affect in conceptual writing. Kenneth …
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District Magnitude the Tie that Binds: A Comparative Analysis of Political Behavior
… district magnitude is studied as it impacts political efficacy, political participation, satisfaction with government. A case study of Brazil is used to analyze how district magnitude impacts voting behavior and legislative careerism in an open-list proportional system. Results provide some …
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