Although most micro-level decisions remain inconsequential, individual processes of opinion formation and mutual influence can in some cases have profound effects that affect society as a whole. A prominent exa
exclusive and inclusive identity (identifying with a more restricted 'in-group' versus identifying with a larger community) and the propensity to vote for radical right and radical left parties, using differences in individual identification with respondents' home nation and as European citizens. The...
Some studies have used perceptual disagreement of party positions between citizens (e.g. Somer-Topcu 2015; Martin 2019) or experts (e.g. Nasr 2020; Nyhuis and Stoetzer 2021) to construct measures of ambiguity. This paper builds on these literatures and adds to them, by using an exo...
Public opinion research suggests that rapid and significant individual-level fluctuations in opinions toward various policies is fairly unexpected absent methodological artifacts. While this may generally be the case, some political actions can and do face tremendous backlash, potentially impacting public eva...
Also, this effect does not substantially differ between Swiss and foreign citizens. In further estimations not presented here, the opposite direction of the path, leading from life satisfaction to satisfaction with democracy, has also been tested and proved to be of similar size than the one ...
Interest groups act as mobilizing agents, but they are not as deeply rooted in American politics. Overall, weaker mobilization efforts depress turnout by about 10 percent. Therefore, it costs more to vote in the U.S. and individuals receive less support for voting than citizens in other countr...
BE IT RESOLVED that the North Carolina General Assembly will pass a bill to amend the state constitution to affirmatively and unassailably recognize the inalienable INDIVIDUAL right of the People to vote in state and local elections. The language recommended is: "The...
He said they would be rewarded in the November elections once voters saw that Republicans were more interested in helping business and the wealthy and were ‘selling out the middle class.’" All told, there’s "lots of hypocrisy to go around in terms of consistency of positions today...
Vote accordingly in November! The Old Guy PhD Are Democrats Thinking Clearly? G’Day! Apparently the answer is, No. Perhaps Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) and refusal to accept the Constitutional outcome of his election has fueled their hated of Trump and caused a collective loss of rational...
On the other hand, for a fee, they can vote in relation to telephone directories. Large proportions of the populations of many countries pay to keep their numbers unlisted (as it is called in the United States), ex-directory (in the United Kingdom), silent (in Australia), or private (...