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Political Socialization and the Making of Citizens Open
Political socialization describes the process by which citizens crystalize political identities, values and behavior that remain relatively persistent throughout later life. This chapter provides a comprehensive discussion of the scholarly…
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What Is Youth Political Participation? Literature Review on Youth Political Participation and Political Attitudes Open
Looking at political participation behavior of young adults in contemporary Europe this paper provides the reader with a map of different terminologies and logics that are used to discuss youth political participation. The existing literat…
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This One’s for the Boys: How Gendered Political Socialization Limits Girls’ Political Ambition and Interest Open
This article develops and tests a new theoretical framework, gendered political socialization , which offers important insights into how children perceive gender in politics and the consequences of these perceptions on sex differences in p…
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The Use of Social Media on Political Participation Among University Students: An Analysis of Survey Results From Rural Pakistan Open
Over the last decade, extensive literature has been published regarding social media effects on real-life political participation. Many argue that social media stimulates online and offline political participation. This study investigates …
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Education and Political Participation Open
Whether education affects political participation is a long-standing and central question in political philosophy and political science. In this review, we provide an overview of the three main theoretical models that explain different cau…
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The Fact of Experience: Rethinking Political Knowledge and Civic Competence Open
In the study of political knowledge, the emphasis on facts is misplaced. Evidence has grown that predispositions and social contexts shape how individuals are exposed to and interpret facts about politics, and the ready availability of inf…
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Political Ideology, Trust, and Cooperation Open
Theories suggest that political ideology relates to cooperation, with conservatives being more likely to pursue selfish outcomes, and liberals more likely to pursue egalitarian outcomes. In study 1, we examine how political ideology and po…
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Socialization and generational political trajectories: an age, period and cohort analysis of political participation in Britain Open
The role of political socialization in explaining disengagement from specific modes of activism beyond voting remains largely unexplored, limited to date by available data and methods. While most previous studies have tended to propose exp…
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Influencers as Empowering Agents? Following Political Influencers, Internal Political Efficacy and Participation among Youth Open
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Self-Reported Versus Digitally Recorded: Measuring Political Activity on Facebook Open
Facebook has been credited with expanding political activity by simultaneously lowering barriers to participation and creating new ways to engage. However, many of these findings rely on subjects’ abilities to accurately report their Faceb…
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The gender gap in political interest revisited Open
To what extent does conventional survey measurement capture the political interest of men and women equally well? We aim to answer this question by relying on unique data from a national online survey in Spain, where we used various questi…
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The Effects of Political Incivility on Political Trust and Political Participation: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Research Open
A great deal of experimental research has focused on how political incivility affects ordinary citizens. A common finding is that incivility reduces political trust. Effects on political participation have also been investigated, but seem …
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation Open
The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all of its varied expressions. It covers a wide range of topics relating to the study of political particip…
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Fostering Political Interest Among Youth During the 2012 Presidential Election Open
Political interest is one of the most consistent predictors of political participation, but little research has examined how it develops. This study explores adolescents’ political interest development during the 2012 U.S. presidential ele…
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Platform-dependent effects of incidental exposure to political news on political knowledge and political participation Open
Encountering news on social media is common even for individuals not actively looking for it – a phenomenon referred to as incidental exposure to political news (IE). A growing body of research has explored how IE on social media relates t…
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An Analysis of Political Ambition in Britain Open
Representative democracies require sufficient numbers of citizens to put themselves forward as candidates for political office. Existing studies have shown that political institutions are not representative of the population as a whole, su…
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The Prevalence of Political Discourse in Non-Political Blogs Open
Though political theorists have emphasized the importance of political discussion in non-political spaces, past study of online political discussion has focused on primarily political websites. Using a random sample from Blogger.com, we fi…
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Gender gaps in political participation in Asia Open
Recent scholarship shows that the gender gap in political activity has diminished, particularly in Western societies. Still unknown is how gender matters for political participation in Asia. Using the 2010 Asian Barometer Survey, this arti…
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Adolescent Civic Engagement and Perceived Political Conflict Open
Adolescents are often exposed to the lasting effects of political conflict. Complementing existing research on negative outcomes in these settings, this article focuses on the role of the family ( N = 731 mother/adolescent dyads, 51% femal…
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Democratic practices and youth in political participation: a doctoral study Open
Youth in democratic activities has changed the political scenario of \nPakistan. The current study was aimed to identify the youngsters towards \ntheir participation in democratic paractices and political activities. The \nnovelity of pres…
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Social Media as an Information Source of Political Learning in Online Education Open
The use of social media as a learning process is inevitable, as students need to be politically inclined. This study wants to contribute to the lack of research on the topic of political material. Complement the literature by evaluating th…
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The (Re)socialization of participatory political culture: Immigrants’ political participation between their contemporary country and their ancestral country Open
We study the reproduction and change of participatory political culture by examining how immigrants’ political engagement develops in the cross-pressure between their country of residence and their ancestral country. To explain patterns of…
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Political Discussion is Abundant in Non-political Subreddits (and Less Toxic) Open
Research on online political communication has primarily focused on content in explicitly political spaces. In this work, we set out to determine the amount of political talk missed using this approach. Focusing on Reddit, we estimate that…
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Political efficacy and interest as mediators of expected political participation among Belgian adolescents Open
Citizenship education intents to prepare students to become politically active citizens. However, studies investigating the relationship between citizenship education and political participation have largely neglected the mediating role of…
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Seeing political information online incidentally. Effects of first- and second-level incidental exposure on democratic outcomes Open
Today, the internet and particularly social media offer lots of opportunities to encounter political information incidentally. Motivated by conflicting findings regarding the effects of incidental exposure (IE) on political outcomes, resea…
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open access and academic associations in the political and social sciences: threat or opportunity? Open
Academic associations are a vital part of the academic community, facilitating the interaction of researchers and production of knowledge, yet the impact of Open Access on their future has been too often regarded as marginal to the main di…
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How Can We Explain the Gender Gap in Children’s Political Knowledge? Open
The gender gap is one of the main puzzles explored in research on political knowledge. Studies on children have shown that this phenomenon takes root in childhood. Girls score lower than boys on knowledge tests, despite cultural developmen…
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Understanding the Complexity of Detecting Political Ads Open
Online political advertising has grown significantly over the last few years.\nTo monitor online sponsored political discourse, companies such as Facebook,\nGoogle, and Twitter have created public Ad Libraries collecting the political\nads…
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“How Dare You!”—The Influence of Fridays for Future on the Political Attitudes of Young Adults Open
In recent years, young adults have increasingly expressed their displeasure with climate policies, arguing that the preservation of the earth for future generations is not secured by existing policies. A growing number of young citizens de…
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Memeing Politics: Understanding Political Meme Creators, Audiences, and Consequences on Social Media Open
Political memes have become a common way for people to be exposed to political content and express their political views online. However, little is known about who shares political memes online or whether exposure to memes is associated wi…