Social Structure and Citizenship: Examining the Impacts of Social Setting, Network Heterogeneity, and Informational Variables on Political Participation

Scheufele, Dietram A.; Nisbet, Matthew C.; Brossard, Dominique; Nisbet, Erik C.

doi:10.1080/10584600490481389

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“…These findings are directly consistent with survey-based work in political communication that showed that citizens with more heterogenous networks (i.e., ones in social environments that routinely exposed them to views different from their own) also tended to be better informed about politics and more participatory in the political process (80,81). Most recently, experimental work by communication researcher Michael Xenos et al (82) examined the potential influences of anticipated interactions on information seeking about nanotechnology.…”

Section: The Blurry Lines Between Science and Politicssupporting

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Science communication as political communication

Scheufele

2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Scientific debates in modern societies often blur the lines between the science that is being debated and the political, moral, and legal implications that come with its societal applications. This manuscript traces the origins of this phenomenon to professional norms within the scientific discipline and to the nature and complexities of modern science and offers an expanded model of science communication that takes into account the political contexts in which science communication takes place. In a second step, it explores what we know from empirical work in political communication, public opinion research, and communication research about the dynamics that determine how issues are debated and attitudes are formed in political environments. Finally, it discusses how and why it will be increasingly important for science communicators to draw from these different literatures to ensure that the voice of the scientific community is heard in the broader societal debates surrounding science.advocacy | medialization | public attitudes | deficit model | motivated reasoning

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Section: The Blurry Lines Between Science and Politicssupporting

confidence: 67%

Science communication as political communication

Scheufele

2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…Firstly, civic engagement should foster political awareness and interest. Scheufele et al (2004), among others, provide some evidence that this is indeed the case. Secondly, this increased interest and involvement in the political sphere should improve government performance.…”

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Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: Evidence from German municipalities

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Heinemann

Kalb

2010

European Journal of Political Economy

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Social and/or political involvement within the population is often argued to enhance public sector performance. The underlying idea is that engagement fosters political awareness and interest and increases the public's monitoring ability. Still, weak fiscal autonomy can undermine voters' interest in and demand for an efficient production of public services. In our contribution, we test whether and how voter involvement in the political sphere is related to government performance -in terms of its efficiency -using a broad panel of German municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a positive impact on cost efficiency. Crucially, however, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly positively affected by local governments' fiscal autonomy.

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“…While the composition of ideology in social networks is important on its own, considerable research has been applied to understanding how the makeup of an individual's social network affects political participation (Eveland and Hively 2009;Huckfeldt, Johnson, and Sprague 2004;Huckfeldt, Mendez, and Osborn 2004;McClurg 2006;Mutz 2002;Scheufele et al 2004). Scholars have long theorized about how cross-cutting pressures in an individual's social environment may cause an individual to become less interested in politics and to disengage (Campbell et al 1960;Ithel de Sola Pool and Popkin 1956).…”

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Quantifying Social Media’s Political Space: Estimating Ideology from Publicly Revealed Preferences on Facebook

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M any theories in political science rely on ideology at their core, whether they are explanations for individual behavior and preferences, governmental relations, or links between them. However, ideology has proven difficult to explicate and measure, in large part because it is impossible to directly observe: we can only examine indicators such as responses to survey questions, political donations, votes, and judicial decisions. One problem with this patchwork of indicator measures is the difficulty of studying ideology across domains. Although we have established reliable techniques for measuring ideology among individuals and legislators, such as survey measures and roll-call vote analysis, methods for jointly estimating the ideologies of ordinary citizens and elite actors have only recently been developed.To understand the relationship between elite ideology and beliefs of ordinary citizens, we need measures of ideology that allow us to place ordinary citizens and elites in the same ideological space. For example, a longstanding debate in political science concerns whether the American public has become more ideologically polarized in the last 40 years (e.g., Abramowitz and Saunders 2008;Fiorina, Abrams, and Pope 2006). If so, does mass polarization drive elite polarization, or vice versa? To test these theories, we need joint ideology measures that put elite actors and ordinary citizens on the same scale.

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Social Structure and Citizenship: Examining the Impacts of Social Setting, Network Heterogeneity, and Informational Variables on Political Participation

Cited by 274 publications

References 54 publications

Science communication as political communication

Science communication as political communication

Voter involvement, fiscal autonomy and public sector efficiency: Evidence from German municipalities

Quantifying Social Media’s Political Space: Estimating Ideology from Publicly Revealed Preferences on Facebook

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