scholarly journals Is Online Participation Distinct from Offline Participation? A Latent Class Analysis of Participation Types and Their Stratification

2012 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Oser ◽  
Marc Hooghe ◽  
Sofie Marien
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Distinctive Type ◽  
Online Activism ◽  
And Gender

The increased availability of the Internet has led to the emergence of new forms of political participation. Opinions differ, however, on whether this has led to a reinforcement of stratification patterns or to the political mobilization of new groups in society. To address this question, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of a U.S. representative sample that indicates that online activism is indeed a distinctive type of political participation. Analysis of the sociodemographic stratification of the identified participation types confirms the mobilization thesis regarding age and gender but finds that traditional socioeconomic status inequalities are reinforced in online political participation.

Politieke voorkeur en antwoordgedrag van respondenten in politieke opiniepeilingen

Res Publica ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-152
Author(s):  
Geert Loosveldt
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Latent Class Model ◽  
Response Category ◽  
The Political ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Class Model ◽  
Political Preference

In this article a typology of respondent's ability to participate in a survey interview is created by means of a latent class analysis. The indicators in the analysis are: the interviewer's evaluation of the respondent's ability, the use of the "don't know" response category and inconsistent answers. It was possible to fit a latent class model with three classes or types of respondents. The three types are clearly differentiated concerning ability. As expected, this typology is related to respondent's education and age. Ability to participate is higher for better educated and younger respondents. Given the fact that political preference is also related to these two background characteristics, there is a relationship between the respondent's typology and the political preference of the respondents.

Two subtypes of symptomatic joint hypermobility: a descriptive study using latent class analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 104 (11) ◽  
pp. 1099-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Di Mattia ◽  
Robyn Fary ◽  
Kevin J Murray ◽  
Erin Howie ◽  
Anne Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Joint Hypermobility ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Motor Delay ◽  
Indicator Variables ◽  
And Gender

ObjectiveTo investigate a cohort of children with symptomatic joint hypermobility.MethodsCase notes for 318 children with joint hypermobility attending a rheumatology clinic were reviewed for clinical presentation, medical history, psychosocial factors and physical examination findings. Seven key variables were extracted and used as indicator variables in a latent class analysis to estimate the presence and number of subgroups of children with symptomatic joint hypermobility.ResultsTwo subgroups with differing clinical presentations were identified accounting for age and gender: an ‘athletic-persistent’ class (62%) characterised by higher probabilities for recurrent and chronic musculoskeletal pain, and less severe hypermobility; and a ‘systemic-profound’ class (38%) characterised by generalised hypermobility, recurrent musculoskeletal pain, gastro-oesophageal reflux and motor delay.ConclusionFindings suggest the presence of two distinct presentations of children with hypermobility. This finding may be important for clinical decision-making and management of this group of children.

Does participation in the workplace spill over into political participation? A latent class analysis approach to patterns of political behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jungook Kim
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Latent Class Analysis ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Behaviors

PurposeThis study examines Pateman's “spillover thesis” that democratic participation in the workplace will “spill over” into political participation. It applies a latent class analysis (LCA) to identify patterns of political behavior and uses workplace participation and political efficacy as predicting variables of political behavior patterns.Design/methodology/approachThis study analyzed the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP) in 2014 General Social Survey (GSS) data. This study applied a LCA to identify distinct patterns in people's political behaviors and did a multinomial regression analysis to predict the patterns with workplace participation and political efficacy.FindingsThe study found partial support for the spillover thesis. Among three distinct political behavior patterns, two active patterns were associated with political efficacy. However, the mediation from workplace participation to political participation through political efficacy was not supported. Respondents involved in workplace units that collectively make work-related decisions were more likely to be active in political behaviors, but only one set of political activities. Higher political efficacy was found to lead to more active overall political participation of both patterns.Originality/valueUnlike the previous studies of democratic spillover, which treated political behaviors either as independent types of behaviors or as a summative index of such binary coded variables, this study addressed such shortcomings of the previous studies by providing a more complex picture of political behavior patterns and their relationship with workplace participation. Future research can build on this unique methodological endeavor to explore a holistic picture of how workplace practices can influence politics and democracy through individual workers.

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