scholarly journals Education-based thinking and acting? Towards an identity perspective for studying education differentials in public opinion and political participation

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 291-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bram Spruyt ◽  
Toon Kuppens
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Education Differentials

Asian Pacific-American Public Opinion and Political Participation

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (03) ◽  
pp. 625-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pei-te Lien ◽  
Christian Collet ◽  
Janelle Wong ◽  
S. Karthick Ramakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Asian Pacific American ◽  
Asian Pacific

scholarly journals Representation of the People: Franchise Extension and the “Sinn Féin Election” in Ireland, 1918

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 886-925
Author(s):  
Alan de Bromhead ◽  
Alan Fernihough ◽  
Enda Hargaden
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Sinn Fein ◽  
Guerrilla War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
Electoral Reforms

Do large franchise extensions bring about dramatic electoral changes? Electoral reforms in 1918 nearly tripled the number of people eligible to vote in Ireland. Following the reforms—the largest franchise extension in U.K. history—the previously obscure Sinn Féin party secured 73 of Ireland’s 105 seats, an outcome that precipitated a guerrilla war and ultimately independence from the United Kingdom. However, our analysis finds little evidence that the franchise reforms benefited Sinn Féin. New female electors appear less likely to have supported Sinn Féin while new male electors were no more likely to vote for Sinn Féin than the existing electorate. Women also appear less likely to have cast a vote at all. Economic and social factors did matter when it came to voting, however, as did public opinion in relation to armed rebellion. These results remind us that dramatic political changes, such as those that took place in Ireland 1918, do not require dramatic changes in political participation. Sinn Féin’s electoral success was more likely driven by a change of heart on behalf of the Irish electorate, rather than a change in its composition.

The Emergence of International Public Opinion and the Origins of Public Diplomacy in Japan in the Inter-War Period

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomoko Akami
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Technological Developments

AbstractThis article argues that what we now call public diplomacy emerged in the mid- to late 1930s in the case of Japan. It questions the notion that public diplomacy is new in contrast to 'traditional' diplomacy. It also questions the conventional understanding of Japan's diplomatic isolationism of the 1930s. The article argues that as a result of greater mass political participation, the idea of 'international public opinion' emerged as a new norm in inter-war international politics. States increasingly regarded news and cultural activities as crucial resources of their soft power for winning this international public opinion. Responding to technological developments in communications, they developed a more systematic approach to propaganda in order to utilize these resources in mainstream foreign policy. Even in the age of the socalled rise of nationalism and diplomatic isolationism, Japan could neither afford not to respond to other states' actions nor to ignore international public opinion. In the diplomatic crises of the 1930s, Japan began to coordinate news and cultural propaganda activities, and integrated them into a broader propaganda scheme. Here we see the origin of what is now called public diplomacy. This modern and internationalist thinking then prepared the institutional base for wartime propaganda.

Political Participation and Government Responsiveness: The Behavior of California Superior Courts

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 1090-1099 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Kuklinski ◽  
John E. Stanga
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Sentencing Decisions ◽  
The People ◽  
Citizen Preferences ◽  
Government Responsiveness

Students of democratic politics have long been concerned with the role of political participation in linking government and the people it serves. Whereas participation is generally defined in terms of voting, this article defines participation as the communication of citizen preferences to public officeholders. We show that aggregate sentencing decisions of California superior courts changed to reflect more closely prevailing public opinion after a large percentage of the populace expressed their preferences on a marijuana issue. The fact that members of California superior courts are seemingly immune from any effective electoral sanction serves both to underline the importance of this form of participation to a responsive system of government and to caution against conceiving of the participation-responsiveness relationship only in terms of punitive electoral devices.

scholarly journals Value foundations of marginal political practices of youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 ◽  
pp. 03017
Author(s):  
Olesya Blinova ◽  
Yuliya Gorbunova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Young People ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
The Political ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Political Sphere

Today's youth, being a keyactor in the use of digital technologies, prefers digital participation in the political sphere of society. The main practices used by young people in their online participation are marginal. The marginality of the political practices of youth is revealed in their hybridity, which manifests itself in the binary of normativity - abnormality, norm - deviation, etc. Using the trend-watching method in the course of the research made it possible to identify the nonlinear and virulent nature of the marginal practices of youth, which makes it difficult to predict their impact, that, according to the authors, actualizes the need to identify the value foundations of their application. Content analysis of young people (18-30 years old) accounts in social networks, Instagram and Youtube channels of public opinion leaders revealed such value foundations of marginal political practices of young people as: patriotism, solidarity, non-violence, participation and independence.The nature of the identified axiological foundations made it possible to draw a conclusion about the transition from the traditional values of political participation of young people to the values of self-expression, the acquisition and implementation of civic subjectivity.

The Wisconsin Spring After Two Gubernatorial Elections

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
Cecilia G. Manrique
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
The State ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Electoral Outcomes ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Impact

Eight years have passed since the original Arab Spring in Tunisia took place in January 2011. It has been almost six years since the impact of the Wisconsin Spring on Scott Walker's attempts at policy changes in the state occurred. At that time, the effect of social media on public awareness and public participation in political events was considered new and innovative. Since then, Walker won a recall election and a re-election. He made a run for the Presidency and lost. In November 2018, Scott Walker was unseated in the gubernatorial race by Tony Evers. This chapter updates what has transpired since then and the impact of social media on the events in Wisconsin, determining whether social media impacted public opinion, political participation, and electoral outcomes in the state.

Making What Government Does Apparent to Citizens: Policy Feedback Effects, Their Limitations, and How They Might Be Facilitated

2019 ◽  
Vol 685 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-46
Author(s):  
Suzanne Mettler
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Policy Feedback ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Feedback Effects ◽  
The Public

Public policies sometimes generate “policy feedback effects,” reshaping public opinion and political participation among beneficiaries or the public generally, often with the effects of generating supportive constituencies that help to sustain the program. Yet such effects do not always occur; in fact, despite that Americans use more social policies than ever, antipathy to government runs high—evidence of a seeming “government-citizen disconnect.” Policy design and delivery matters for policy feedback, as policies that make government’s role more visible may make more of an impression on beneficiaries; yet political polarization and distrust in government can interfere with such effects. In addition, those who are most aware of the government’s role in social provision often participate least in politics, and vice versa. This article considers strategies that public officials and other civic and political leaders can use to facilitate policy feedback effects.

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