How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis

Oser, Jennifer; Grinson, Amit; Boulianne, Shelley; Halperin, Eran

doi:10.1080/10584609.2022.2086329

Cited by 35 publications

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“…This is especially the case during salient elections: as Rolfe (2016) described, "Higher-intensity campaigns make politics and the upcoming election more salient, not only in increased political discussion among friends, but also in other prominent cues that may indicate to citizens that their friends, neighbors, and coworkers care about the election," (100). Mobilizing people to participate is now even easier given the advent of the Internet and social media, evidenced by studies that suggested online participation is less dependent on resources and location (e.g., Lin and Trujillo 2022), equally as impactful on feelings of efficacy compared to offline participation (Oser, Boulianne, and Halperin 2022), and that it can mediate voter turnout (Settle et al 2016).…”

Section: Recruitment Socialization and Mobilizationmentioning

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Reassessing the Theory and Measures of Non-Voting Political Participation in the American Electorate

Fitz¹,

Saunders²

2023

Preprint

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Despite a vast body of literature on political participation, scholarship often overlooks partisan and ideological differences between voting and non-voting participation. Whereas voting signals partisan support, we argue non-voting participation allows individuals to exercise ideological ideals before an election and can thus increase the likelihood of voting. Using data from the 2020 American National Election Studies survey (N=8,280) and 2020 Cooperative Election Study (N=61,000), we find non-voting participation indeed serves a more ideological function compared to voting. We also add to literature that links non-voting participation with a higher likelihood of voting by demonstrating this effect is strongest for pure Independents. These phenomena hold across three analyses and amidst a wide range of antecedents, providing strong evidence to suggest non-voting participation is more ideologically-driven than voting and is especially important for those who do not identify with one of the two major political parties.

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Section: Recruitment Socialization and Mobilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reassessing the Theory and Measures of Non-Voting Political Participation in the American Electorate

Fitz¹,

Saunders²

2023

Preprint

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“…To demonstrate this point, we took the recent paper by Oser et al (2022). This paper was selected because 1) the paper was published in Political Communication, a high impact journal that awards Open Science Badges; 2) shared data and R code are available; and most importantly, 3) the shared R code is well-written.…”

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“…This paper was selected because 1) the paper was published in Political Communication, a high impact journal that awards Open Science Badges; 2) shared data and R code are available; and most importantly, 3) the shared R code is well-written. In the repository of this paper, we based on the materials shared by Oser et al (2022) and prepared a research compendium that should have long-term computational reproducibility. The research compendium is similar to the Executable Compendium suggested by the Turing way.…”

Section: Recover a Removed Bioconductor Packagementioning

confidence: 99%

Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen

Arnold¹

2023

Wörterbuch Erwachsenen- Und Weiterbildung

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A complete declarative description of the computational environment is often missing when researchers share their materials. Without such description, software obsolescence and missing system components can jeopardize computational reproducibility in the future, even when data and computer code are available. The R package rang is a complete solution for generating the declarative description for other researchers to automatically reconstruct the computational environment at a specific time point. The reconstruction process, based on Docker, has been tested for R code as old as 2001. The declarative description generated by rang satisfies the definition of a reproducible research compendium and can be shared as such. In this contribution, we show how rang can be used to make otherwise unexecutable code, spanning from fields such as computational social science and bioinformatics, executable again. We also provide instructions on how to use rang to construct reproducible and shareable research compendia of current research. The package is currently available from CRAN (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rang/index.html) and GitHub (https://github.com/chainsawriot/rang).

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“…Accordingly, the scholarship has evolved to explore how people can use digital media for political participation (Boulianne, 2020; Ruess et al, 2021). We might expect political efficacy to be a predictor of online political participation, just as it has been used to predict offline political participation (Oser et al, 2022). The rise of social media thus makes the study of efficacy and digital media use more interesting because social media are not merely information media that contribute to political efficacy; they are also participatory media, whose use is driven by political efficacy.…”

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confidence: 99%

Powerless in the digital age? A systematic review and meta-analysis of political efficacy and digital media use

Boulianne

Oser

Hoffmann

2023

New Media & Society

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Many citizens feel powerless in the current globalized political context, despite the potential of digital media to increase their perceptions of being informed about politics and expand their opportunities to interact with elected officials to try to influence government decisions. We analyzed 193 studies to document the most popular ways to conceptualize, measure, and model political efficacy when also studying digital media. Furthermore, we conducted a meta-analysis of correlations. We find that the positive estimates are larger, on average, when considering internal political efficacy and smaller but still positive when considering external political efficacy. We also examine how the relationships differ according to the type of media use and political system, whether authoritarian (e.g. China) or democratic. We propose a theoretical framework that considers reciprocal effects. Online information may contribute to feelings of being informed about politics and feelings of being informed lead to online political participation.

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How Political Efficacy Relates to Online and Offline Political Participation: A Multilevel Meta-analysis

Cited by 35 publications

References 112 publications

Reassessing the Theory and Measures of Non-Voting Political Participation in the American Electorate

Reassessing the Theory and Measures of Non-Voting Political Participation in the American Electorate

Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung – Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen

Powerless in the digital age? A systematic review and meta-analysis of political efficacy and digital media use

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