Does Civic Participation Stimulate Political Activity?

Stekelenburg, Jacquelien van; Klandermans, Bert; Akkerman, Agnes

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“…They illustrate how advantaged and disadvantaged identities within the same person can shape engagement, by providing individuals with experiences of marginalization and privilege on which to draw as they engage in activism both for their own group and in alliance with others. van Stekelenburg, Klandermans, and Akkerman () use survey data from a large sample (over 14,000) of street demonstrations to argue that civic participation can serve as a means of engendering more politicized activities.…”

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Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand Activism in Context(s)

Curtin

McGarty

2016

Journal of Social Issues

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Recent years have seen an increase in theoretical and empirical interest in the dynamics of social change. Missing from much of this literature, which has focused broadly on collective action, is attention to the people who seek to bring about social change, activists. Mass collective action is unlikely to occur without the involvement of people to recruit, mobilize, and organize social change campaigns. Including recent research from Australia, Europe, and North and South America, and studies of global online activists, this issue highlights multimethod approaches to studying activists and activism across a variety of different regional, issue-based, and sociopolitical contexts. In addition to contributing to ongoing theoretical and empirical discussions, the issue addresses the policy and strategic implications of this research for social change agents and organizations.In December 2011, the U.S. publication Time declared "The Protester" to be the person of the year (Anderson, 2011). Indeed, 2011 was a year of large-scale visible protest and social change around the world: from the Arab Spring; to the "Occupy" (U.S.) and Indignados (Spain) movements; anticorruption protests in India; and protests over accusations of vote rigging in Russia and the Democratic

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Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand Activism in Context(s)

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McGarty

2016

Journal of Social Issues

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“…The majority of the efficacious distrusters appear to be members of labor unions. These organizations apparently not only mobilize resources, but they also unite strength and function as schools to acquire political skills (van Stekelenburg, Klandermans, & Akkerman, ). Those skills seem to spill over from noninstitutionalized to institutionalized activities, given the finding that the majority of the disenchanted citizens did not turn their back to institutionalized politics.…”

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In Politics We Trust…or Not? Trusting and Distrusting Demonstrators Compared

Stekelenburg

Klandermans

2017

Political Psychology

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This article sheds light on the debate regarding political trust and protest activity. The debate boils down to the question whether trust in politics is positively or negatively related to protest activity. We exploit a dataset encompassing data on about 9,000 demonstrators spread over seven European countries. These demonstrators' trust in their parliaments varies widely, ranging from trustworthy capable, to corrupt incapable. We examine the diverging sociodemographic profiles and motivational dynamics that turn distrusting and trusting citizens into demonstrators. We hypothesize and show that distrusting demonstrators turn their back to institutionalized politics; for them, demonstrating substitutes the party politics they distrust. For trusting demonstrators, demonstrating supplements party politics. Trusting and distrusting demonstrators also differ considerably in terms of motivation. Distrusting demonstrators are stronger motivated to demonstrate than trusting demonstrators. Moreover, while political cynicism amplifies the motivation of distrusting demonstrators, it suppresses the motivation of trusting demonstrators. We conclude that the question to be answered is not so much whether people who engage in protest activity trust or distrust their political elites, but rather who the trusting and distrusting protesters are and why they protest.

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“…Można zatem przypuszczać, że zainteresowanie petycjami online wynika z większego zaangażowania politycznego, a równocześnie -z większej ilości czasu wolnego, który można poświęcić na realizację zainteresowań. Jest to zgodne z wynikami badań, w których wskazywano grupę 45-65 jako najbardziej aktywną w organizacjach politycznych (Stekelenburg et al, 2016).…”

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Dynamika i użytkownicy serwisów z petycjami online w Polsce

Miotk

2019

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Artykuł zawiera analizę demografi i użytkowników serwisów z petycjami online. Cel: Sprawdzenie, jak prezentuje się struktura demografi czna użytkowników serwisów z petycjami, w porównaniu do wyników innych badań dotyczących petycji online. Metody badań: Dane wtórne z badania Gemius/PBI-pomiaru widowni internetowej. Wyniki i wnioski: Petycje online są najczęściej odwiedzane przez osoby w wieku 55 lat i więcej, mieszkańców wielkich miast z wyższym wykształceniem. Wartość poznawcza: Do tej pory największe zainteresowanie petycjami online przypisywano ludziom młodym. Nie badano też użytkowników tego typu serwisów za pomocą analizy danych o zachowaniach. SŁOWA KLUCZOWE partycypacja polityczna, petycje obywatelskie, petycje online, pomiar widowni internetowej, silver generation

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Does Civic Participation Stimulate Political Activity?

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand Activism in Context(s)

Expanding on Psychological Theories of Engagement to Understand Activism in Context(s)

In Politics We Trust…or Not? Trusting and Distrusting Demonstrators Compared

Dynamika i użytkownicy serwisów z petycjami online w Polsce

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