Wealth into voice: Political behavior of private entrepreneurs in the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (2008–2012)

Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these concerns would motivate people to become more politically engaged on the issues, this often doesn't happen, and the resulting inaction carries consequences for political debates and public policy. Moving beyond previously studied barriers to political organization, this book sheds light on the public's inaction over economic insecurities by showing that the rhetoric surrounding these issues is actually self-undermining. By their nature, the very arguments intended to mobilize individuals—asking them to devote money or time to politics—remind citizens of their economic fears and personal constraints, leading to undermobilization and nonparticipation. The book explains why the set of people who become politically active on financial insecurity issues is therefore quite narrow. When money is needed, only those who care about the issues but are not personally affected become involved. When time is needed, participation is limited to those not personally affected or those who are personally affected but outside of the labor force with time to spare. The latter explains why it is relatively easy to mobilize retirees on topics that reflect personal financial concerns, such as Social Security and Medicare. In general, however, when political representation requires a large group to make their case, economic insecurity threats are uniquely disadvantaged. Scrutinizing the foundations of political behavior, the book offers a new perspective on collective participation.

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Analisa Wacana Pemberitaan Kasus Korupsi E-KTP Pada Media Kompas.com Terhadap Pembentukan Opini Publik

SISI LAIN REALITA ◽

10.25299/sisilainrealita.2019.vol4(1).4043 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Neri Widya Ramailis ◽

Dede Nopendri

Keyword(s):

Mass Media ◽

Social Control ◽

The Other ◽

Main Function ◽

General Knowledge ◽

Visual Method ◽

The Public ◽

The Media ◽

Private Entrepreneurs

Discourse is a series of sentences that relate and connect one proposition with the other propositions to from a unity. The main function of the news is not to warn, instruct, and make the public stunned, the main function of the news is to inform and then it is upto the public to utilize the news. There are two ways for the news to be useful to the public, the first to effort news as general knowledge and the second to effort the news a tool of social control. E-Ktp corruption cases are one of the biggest corruption cases that occurered in Indonesia. Therefore, many mass media reported heavilly on E-Ktp corruption cases, one of which was the kompas.com. furthermore, to find out how the writer gets the source the writer gets the source of data and information the writer uses the criminology visual method and then analyzes it using criminology newsmaking theory. However, the results of this study illustrate that the aspect highlighted are those of actors suspected of being involved in E-Ktp corruption cases. Where the media only emphasizes one institution, namely the people’s representative council, even though in this case the involved parties are not only the legislature but case the involved parties are not only the legislature but also from various institutions such as the interior ministry, state-owned enterprises, and private entrepreneurs. In the aspect of media projection Kompas.com make the bulk of the news about E- Ktp corruption cases as news headline and a tranding topic.

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Shadow of the Past? Self-Licensing and Political Behavior

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2617347 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Seth H. Werfel

Keyword(s):

Political Behavior ◽

The Past

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Who You Gonna Call? An Empirical Test of Political Behavior after Disaster

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2701045 ◽

2015 ◽

Author(s):

Daniel P. Aldrich ◽

Yoshikuni Ono

Keyword(s):

Political Behavior ◽

Empirical Test

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780198792130.003.0013 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Harald Schoen ◽

Sigrid Roßteutscher ◽

Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck ◽

Bernhard Weßels ◽

Christof Wolf

Keyword(s):

Political Behavior ◽

Voting Behavior ◽

Contextual Effects ◽

Democratic Politics ◽

Voter Behavior ◽

Future Research ◽

Opinion Formation ◽

Context Sensitive ◽

Contextual Features ◽

And Behavior

This concluding chapter summarizes the main findings of the preceding chapters in light of the model of contextual effects on voter behavior. Accordingly, the processes of communication and politicization are of key importance for contextual effects. By implication, we cannot take for granted that contextual features exert sizable effects on voters’ opinion formation and behavior in each and every case. Findings about contextual effects are also context-sensitive and thus do not lend themselves to generalization by default. These observations suggest that context plays a nuanced and conditional role in voting behavior. Exploring it further should be a focal topic of future research on political behavior and democratic politics.

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