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On Political Efficacy and Occupy Wall Street’s Postage Paid Protest
One of the strongest predictors of participation is what political scientists call “political efficacy”. Broadly speaking, one of the components of political efficacy refers to an individual’s...
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Can Informed Public Deliberation Overcome Clientelism? Experimental Evidence...
picture by geezaweezer on flickr Brilliant paper by Leonard Wantchekon This paper provides experimental evidence on the effect of “informed” town hall meetings on electoral support for programmatic,...
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Eurobarometer: Citizens Engaged in Participatory Democracy
A new report by Eurobarometer on citizen engagement in participatory democracy has been recently published. Here are some of the findings: A third (34%) of respondents say that they have signed a...
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A Dynamic Model of Protest
A nice animation based on a paper by Adam Meirowitz (Princeton) and Joshua Tucker (New York University). The video explains why citizens who take action to overthrow bad governments might eventually...
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Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants?
Article by Catherine Bolzendahl and Hilde Coffé recently published at Political Studies (2013): Are ‘Good’ Citizens ‘Good’ Participants? Testing Citizenship Norms and Political Participation across 25...
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The Foundations of Motivation for Citizen Engagement
Discussions about incentives to participate are increasingly common, but they are as shallow as most conversations nowadays about the subject of “feedback loops”. And very little reflection is...
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Italian Politics 2.0: The Multifaceted Effect of the Internet on Political...
We investigate the impact of the diffusion of high-speed Internet on different forms of political participation, using data from Italy. We exploit differences in the availability of ADSL broadband...
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10 Most Read Posts in 2013
Below is a selection of the 10 most read posts at DemocracySpot in 2013. Thanks to all of those who stopped by throughout the year, and happy 2014. 1. Does transparency lead to trust? Some evidence on...
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Technology and Citizen Engagement: Friend or Foe?
Rio Grande do Sul Participatory Budgeting Voting System (2014) Within the open government debate, there is growing interest in the role of technology in citizen engagement. However, as interest in the...
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DemocracySpot’s Most Read Posts in 2014
Glasses for reading (1936) – Nationaal Archief (I should have posted this on the 31st, but better late than never) Below are some of the most read posts in 2014. While I’m at it, I’ll take the...
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New Papers Published: FixMyStreet and the World’s Largest Participatory...
Voting in Rio Grande do Sul’s Participatory Budgeting (picture by Anderson Lopes) Here are two new published papers that my colleagues Jon Mellon, Fredrik Sjoberg and myself have been working on. The...
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Catching up (again!) on DemocracySpot
It’s been a while since the last post here. In compensation, it’s not been a bad year in terms of getting some research out there. First, we finally managed to publish “Civic Tech in the Global South:...
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