voter behaviorSocial networking sites (SNS) have become increasingly popular means for self-expression, communication, and influence, particularly in relation to political activity. In cases involving elections, for example, studies have been conducted to explore how these sites have been mobilized as ...
The results show that both the degree of stability and divergence in the parties' left–right positions are of considerable importance for the perceptual agreement among voters, while electoral size of the parties has a negative effect. In contrast to the vast literature on voting behavior that ...
In addition, the degree of citizens’ perceived value of the effect of online political questioning will have some influence on government behavior. Assuming that the online governmental approach is more cost effective than other governmental approaches, i.e., it costs less to get better services ...
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. Acknowledgements We gratefully acknowledge S. T. Ambepitiya for their help in data collection and the participants of the study. ...
A specific problem for Switzerland is the flawed nature of plebiscitary democracy, as low voter turnouts mean that initiative results do not necessarily reflect the will of the majority, and often the party with the biggest budget has distorted influence over the outcomes of initiatives. Strict ...
Moreover, the findings suggest that cultural conditions may be more significant for electoral behavior on a sub-national than on an international level.FreitagMarkusInternational Political Science ReviewFreitag, M. (2010). Structure versus Culture: A Comparative Study of the Influence of Political ...
The outcome of a logistic regression analysis demonstrated that sociocultural and personal agency, but not social agency, were statistically powerful predictors of voting ( < .05). These findings suggest that an individual's personal perceptions and cultural status influence their likelihood to vote, ...
On the one hand, voting via post helps to overcome the increasing distance between a voter's residency abroad and the nearest polling station organized by a diplomatic mission (mostly at an embassy or a consulate). On the other hand, this way of voting also requires enough trust that the ...
The outcome of a logistic regression analysis demonstrated that sociocultural and personal agency, but not social agency, were statistically powerful predictors of voting (p < .05). These findings suggest that an individual's personal perceptions and cultural status influence their likelihood to vote,...
The World Health Organization and some studies [19] have shown that political beliefs and distrust in the government significantly influence SARS-CoV-2 vaccine hesitancy. Therefore, we use Cook’s partisan voter index (P.V.I.) to capture ideological dimensions at the county level in the U.S....