Educational outcomes of political participation? Young first-time voters 3 years after the Scottish Independence Referendum

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Maddie Breeze ◽  
Hugo Gorringe ◽  
Lynn Jamieson ◽  
Michael Rosie
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
First Time

Support for Scottish independence is growing stronger

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Sustained Increase

Significance For the first time, there is a sustained increase in support for Scottish independence. The main reasons include dislike of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet north of the border, the UK government’s pursuit of a ‘hard’ Brexit and questions about its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Impacts Soaring Scottish unemployment when the UK furlough schemes end would undermine London’s claim to be protecting Scottish jobs. Rising support for Scottish independence could prompt the UK government to seek a closer trade agreement with the EU. The UK government will be unable to conceal the economic impacts of Brexit under the economic fallout of COVID-19. A Scottish vote for independence would put huge pressure on the UK government to resign and call early elections.

scholarly journals Pendidikan pemilih bagi pemula dalam menciptakan pemilih melek politik di Kabupaten Lampung Selatan dan Kota Bandar Lampung pada Pilkada serentak 2020

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
Himawan Indrajat ◽  
Arizka Warganegara ◽  
Robi Cahyadi Kurniawan ◽  
Budi Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Supervisory Board ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Management Institutions ◽  
Regional Elections ◽  
First Time ◽  
Election Commission ◽  
Service Location

This community service provides voter education to first-time voters in Bandar Lampung City and Lampung Selatan Regency. In December these two regencies/cities will hold a regional head election simoustanly. It is hoped that by providing voter education, the level of voters political knowledge can increase will not only understand their rights as citizens to vote but also understand the aims and objectives of the elections, understand democracy, regional head elections, and political participation so that new voters hope to become smart and politically literate voters. This service was carried out to assess the knowledge and understanding of the seminar participants using an initial evaluation by filling out an online questionnaire via google form. This method is used to determine the level of knowledge and understanding of participants about democracy, regional elections, and political participation. As well as providing seminar materials related to regional elections, political participation, and public policy. Final evaluation through discussion on issues that have not been understood related to the material presented and the increase in participant knowledge. The number of participants for the voter education service for beginners is 40 people is carried out online through the Zoom application and face-to-face physical because of the COVID-19 pandemic conditions and also because of the service location is in two places and carried out at the same time. Many participants do not know that in December, the regional elections will hold simultaneously. And there are still participants who think that voting during the elections is an obligation as a citizen, not a citizen's right. And there are always participants who do not know about the election management institutions, namely the General Election Commission and the Election Supervisory Board. In the interest to accept money politics, many new voters are interested in receiving money politics on election day. It shows that some beginner voters are willing to take money politics in the upcoming regional elections, so it is necessary to understand that money politics destroys democracy. After filling in the questionnaire, we provided materials about democracy, regional elections, political participation, and money politics. We offer the understanding to voters that the goal of democracy is to create a government that can provide prosperity to its people, and there are ways to select regional head candidates through elections, so voters must be critical to see the track records and backgrounds of local head candidates so that the correct regional head is elected. true in accordance with the aspirations of society.

2015 and all that

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Owen Dudley Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Conservative Party ◽  
National Party ◽  
Scottish National Party ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
First Time

The UK General Election of 2015, in which the Scottish National Party won 56 of the 59 seats, is likely to be a landmark in Scottish history. Moreover, for the first time since 1886, the victor in the predominant country in the Union – the Conservative Party in England – seemed to gain electoral victory in part by hostility to one of the partners of the Union. The article discusses the origins of this electoral tsunami. The immediate origin of the SNP landslide commenced with the disillusion with Scottish Liberalism, but its main victim was the Scottish Labour Party, seemingly fatally damaged by its alliance with the Conservatives during the campaign for a No vote in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence. But whoever lost the election of 2015, it was won by Nicola Sturgeon, setting an example of civil debate untarnished by Westminster politics. Analogies with the politics of Ireland in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century cast helpful light on the present situation.

scholarly journals CONSUMPTION OF ONLINE POLITICAL NEWS AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF FIRST-TIME VOTERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Ridwan Effendi ◽  
Muhammad Endriski Agraenzopati Haryanegara ◽  
Vidi Sukmayadi ◽  
Firman Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political News ◽  
First Time

scholarly journals Explaining Voter Registration Levels in the American States

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Fleury
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
Voter Registration ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
American States ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Participation Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Previous research on political participation typically has centered upon voter turnout, modeling it as a function of socio-demographic and structural factors separately and in conjunction. Using aggregate-level data covering the 1980s, this paper updates and extends previous political participation research in the specific regard of voter registration. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between a state’s voter registration level and its degree of interparty competition. An index of interparty competition for the 1980-1989 period — based upon the Ranney index first employed for the 1948-1960 period and later extended by Bibby et al. to 1974-1980 — is presented here for the first time. However, interparty competition and several other demographic and structural factors that traditionally are cited as contributors to voter turnout are found here to be insignificant for predicting voter registration levels. A socio-demographic factor, racial composition, and a structural factor, the closing date for registration, emerge as the most important predictors of aggregate registration level.

Pendidikan Politik Bagi Pemilih Pemula di SMAN 1 Meureubo Kabupaten Aceh Barat

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Vellayati Hajad ◽  
Ikhsan Ikhsan
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Average Score ◽  
The Political ◽  
Selection Procedures ◽  
The Third ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Political Literacy ◽  
The Right ◽  
First Time

Political education is a very important thing to do in increasing the participation of first-time voters. First time voters are those aged between 17 to 24 years, but in this service the first time voters in question are the students of SMAN 1 Meureubo who are sitting in the third grade of high school and already have the right to vote. The method used in this service is by lecturing, sharing sessions, and simulations with video and practice selection procedures. The results of devotion show that the political participation of novice voters in elections is strongly influenced by the level of knowledge, understanding and literacy (political literacy) possessed by novice voters. Before the results of the pre-test activities of students' knowledge 57.25 and after getting political education through lecture methods, sharing sessions, and video simulations and practices the average score rose to 70.25. In conclusion, there was an increase in students' knowledge regarding political participation.

scholarly journals Information, Misinformation, and Political Participation

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 71-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Michael White ◽  
Michael Binder ◽  
Richard Ledet ◽  
C. Richard Hofstetter
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Random Digit ◽  
Random Digit Dial ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

This research addresses the extent to which political participation is a function of misinformation. A large body of work links information with participation, but relatively few authors have addressed the relationship between misinformation and participation. We use data from a 1997 random-digit-dial survey of 810 adults in San Diego to test the hypothesis that misinformation (confident beliefs in false facts) is associated with political participation even after controlling for other explanations, including information. We find that while both misinformation and information tend to increase participation levels, their specific impacts vary. This research ends a period of speculation by presenting empirical evidence of misinformed participation for the first time in the literature.

‘Yae, Nae, or Dinnae Ken’: Dramatic Responses to the Scottish Referendum and Theatre Uncut

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-385
Author(s):  
Sıla Şenlen Güvenç
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Political Satire ◽  
English Drama ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Verbal Violence ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
First Time

In this paper Sıla Şenlen Güvenç surveys the key plays staged in the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, with special emphasis on the six Theatre Uncut plays – Rob Drummond's Party Pieces, A. J. Taudevin's The 12.57, and Lewis Hetherington's The White Lightning and the Black Stag (composed in 2013), and Davey Anderson's twin plays, Fear and Self-Loathing in West Lothian and Don't Know, Don't Care, and Kieran Hurley's Close from 2014. Written prior to the referendum and performed together for the first time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2014, these plays became even more meaningful with developing events in the United Kingdom, especially Brexit and the potential for a second independence referendum in Scotland. The plays reflect many of the issues discussed in both the ‘Yes Scotland’ and ‘Better Together’ campaigns. Sıla Şenlen Güvenç is currently Associate Professor at Ankara University's Department of English Language and Literature. Besides articles and theatre reviews on English drama, she is the author of ‘Words as Swords’: Verbal Violence as a Construction of Authority in Renaissance and Contemporary English Drama (2009) and ‘The World is a Stage, but the Play is Badly Cast’: British Political Satire in the Neo-classical Period (in Turkish, 2014).

scholarly journals Indigenous Parties and Democracy in Latin America

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raúl L. Madrid
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Party System ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Electoral Volatility ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
Ethnic Parties ◽  
First Time

AbstractIn recent years, important indigenous parties have emerged for the first time in Latin American history. Although some analysts view this development with trepidation, this essay argues that the indigenous parties in Latin America are unlikely to exacerbate ethnic conflict or create the kinds of problems that have been associated with some ethnic parties in other regions. To the contrary, the emergence of major indigenous parties in Latin America may actually help deepen democracy in the region. These parties will certainly improve the representativeness of the party system in the countries where they arise. They should also increase political participation and reduce party system fragmentation and electoral volatility in indigenous areas. They may even increase the acceptance of democracy and reduce political violence in countries with large indigenous populations.

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