When and why does political trust predict well‐being in authoritarian contexts? Examining the role of political efficacy and collective action among opposition voters

Acar, Yasemin Gülsüm; Uluğ, Özden Melis

doi:10.1111/bjso.12505

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“…Nevertheless, positive emotions as antecedents to collective action have received little research attention in the context of Turkey. Of the little work in this area in Turkey, positive emotions derived from being a participant of Turkey's system (e.g., Solak, 2015), and institutional trust and satisfaction with how the democracy works (e.g., Acar & Uluğ, 2021a;Kentmen-Çin, 2015) were negatively related to willingness to participate in system-challenging collective actions.…”

Section: Collective Action and Social Change In Turkey 10mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, collective efficacy itself is not monothetic. Thus, heterogeneity for the effect of efficacy on collective action also emerged when researchers considered different types of efficacy (see Acar & Uluğ, 2021a;Hornsey et al, 2006). In a recent study, Cichocka et al (2018), for example, demonstrated that external political efficacy (i.e., perceptions that the government considers one's demands) was negatively related to collective action intentions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To our knowledge, there are a couple of studies that consider the role of the types of collective efficacy in collective action. For example, Ayanian et al's (2021) study showed that different types of efficacy have different outcomes for collective action participation in Turkey (see also Acar & Uluğ, 2021a). They looked into the associations between facets of efficacy, namely political efficacy, identity consolidation efficacy (i.e., belief in actions' ability to lead a broader movement), and participative efficacy (i.e., belief in one's personal contribution to the movement) on the one hand and willingness to participate in future collective action on the other.…”

Section: Collective Action and Social Change In Turkey 14mentioning

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Collective Action in Turkey: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next?

Uluğ¹,

Solak²,

Acar³

2022

Examining Complex Intergroup Relations

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This book chapter aims to review the existing social psychological studies on collective action that have been published in the context of Turkey. First, we provide a brief historical background of Turkey in terms of collective movements, especially focusing on the last decade. Second, we discuss how other disciplines in the social sciences have approached collective action much earlier than social psychology. Third, we provide an up-to-date review of how collective action has been studied in social psychology in Turkey by specifically focusing on the a) antecedents and dynamics of and b) outcomes of collective action. Finally, we discuss future directions stemming and highlight in which areas more collective action research is needed in Turkey in particular and in authoritarian contexts in general. We discuss the importance of context when COLLECTIVE ACTION AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN TURKEY 2 research is conducted in a non-WEIRD environment, in a country where the typical antecedents and outcomes of collective action may not be in place. Thus, we aim to add to the existing global literature by discussing areas where the research based in Turkey is similar to yet diverges from the existing literature.

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Collective Action in Turkey: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next?

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Acar³

2022

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“…It can be high or low. Higher levels of efficacy indicate that citizens believe their government is doing what is best for them and that their actions can positively impact the government (Acar & Ulug, 2021;Schulz, 2005). Meanwhile, low levels of efficacy point toward citizens' lack of faith in their government and the feeling that their actions have little or no impact upon the actions of the government (Pedraza, 2016).…”

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Social media, political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria

Akinyetun¹

2022

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The role of social media in influencing political thinking, perception, and participation is becoming increasingly important, as evident in the volume of research the topic has attracted. This article presents findings on social media, political efficacy, and political participation in Nigeria. The objective is to evaluate the relationship between social media and political efficacy; social media and political participation; and political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria. To this end, the study adopted a web survey design for sample participants across the country, using links distributed through Facebook and Twitter. Snowball sampling was adopted to determine the total number of respondents (N = 3,407). The results of the descriptive statistics and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient yielded evidence that the majority of social media users in Nigeria are male, young, educated and largely unemployed . It concludes that social media influences political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria.

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“…A spate of very recent studies has explored support for collective action in Turkey (Acar & Uluğ, 2022; Çakal et al., 2016; Uluğ et al., 2020), some in relation to the Gezi Park protests of 2013 (Ayanian et al., 2021; Baysu & Phalet, 2017; Odağ et al., 2016; Uluğ & Acar, 2019; Uysal & Akfırat, 2021, 2022). For the most part, these studies focused on variables such as anger at perceived injustice, ingroup identification, and beliefs about group efficacy, which are central to the Social Identity Model of Collective Action (SIMCA; see Van Zomeren et al., 2008).…”

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System‐based emotions in Turkey and support for versus opposition to the Gezi Park protests

Solak

Sümer

Uluğ

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Euro J Social Psych

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Research on system justification theory has found that ideological justification of the status quo is associated with increased positive emotion and decreased negative emotion and, consequently, a lack of support for system‐challenging protest. However, almost all of this research has been conducted in “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries. Here we investigated the role of system‐level emotions in mediating the negative association between system justification and collective action in the authoritarian political context of Turkey. We hypothesized that system justification would be associated with opposition to system‐challenging collective action, and the association would be mediated by system‐level emotions, even after adjusting for individual‐ and group‐level emotions. These hypotheses were investigated in studies involving university students (Study 1, N = 132) and two community samples recruited during the Gezi Park protests of 2013 (Study 2, N = 256; Study 3, N = 1024). In all three studies, system justification was associated with fewer negative system‐level emotions and less support for protests against the status quo. These findings demonstrate that ideological processes associated with system justification—both directly and indirectly, through system‐level emotional processes—undermine support for social change and promote social stability, even in a highly repressive political context.

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When and why does political trust predict well‐being in authoritarian contexts? Examining the role of political efficacy and collective action among opposition voters

Cited by 10 publications

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Collective Action in Turkey: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next?

Collective Action in Turkey: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go Next?

Social media, political efficacy and political participation in Nigeria

System‐based emotions in Turkey and support for versus opposition to the Gezi Park protests

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