Opinion incongruence and public support for direct decision-making
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Young blood : needed or discarded? Untangling party strategies for the selection of young candidates
Young people are three times more present in the population than in elected assemblies. Their critical underrepresentation has so far received much less scholarly attention than other well-studied social groups, despite, for instance, women being underrepresented in parliaments to a smaller extent. This research investigates the reasons why parties...
Rewarding some, but not all? The selectoral consequences of parliamentary activity for newcomers and experienced MPs in ...
This article examines whether political parties reward the parliamentary activity of members of parliament (MPs) through candidate selection processes. Previous research on this question provides mixed evidence. Moreover, studies often disregard potentially unequal effects among different kinds of MPs. Using new data on all members of the Belgian C...
Spatial and valence models of voting: The effects of the political context
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The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs
status: published
Egypte : les enjeux constitutionnels
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The consequences of repeatedly losing on legitimacy beliefs
Modern democracies are dependent on regular elections and citizens' legitimacy beliefs. Studies have shown that repeated electoral defeats are associated with lower levels of satisfaction with democracy and political trust. However, previous studies have only considered one type of legitimacy belief at a time, never in comparison. What is more, all...
Влияние молодежных организаций на становление правового сознания граждан / Influence of youth organizations on the forma...
В статье рассмотрен опыт Клуба молодого избирателя, действующий в городе Благовещенске Республики Башкортостан, который положительно влияет и помогает молодежи в становлении правового сознания. / The article describes the experience of the Young voter Club operating in the city of Blagoveshchensk of the Republic of Bashkortostan, which positively i...
Adoption et transfert de normes politiques : le cas des migrants maliens / Sécurité / Insécurité : le nouveau paradigme ...
Broadening the individual differences lens on party support and voting behavior: Cynicism and prejudice as relevant atti...
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Social-cultural and economic-hierarchical ideological attitudes have long been used to explain variation in political partisanship. We propose two additional, stable attitudes (political cynicism and ethnic prejudice) that may help in explaining contemporary political alignments. In a Belgian (N = 509) and Dutch sampl...
