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- Abdelzadeh, Ali, et al.
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Procedural Fairness and Political Trust Among Young People : Lessons from a panel study on Swedish High School Students
- 2015
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Ingår i: Acta Politica. - : Palgrave Macmillan. - 0001-6810 .- 1741-1416. ; 50:3, s. 253-278
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of ‘fair’ institutions in developing democratic legitimacy has received increased attention. Citizens who perceive – on basis of past experiences – that they are being treated fairly by authorities have been held to have greater trust in political institutions. However, previous studies on the relationship between procedural fairness and political trust have not paid sufficient attention to individuals with limited first-hand experiences of authorities. We examine the relationship on an authority that virtually all individuals meet early in life: the school. Using structural equation modeling on unique panel data covering 1500 Swedish adolescents (ages ranging from 13 to 17), we find a reciprocal relationship: personal encounters with school authorities shape young people’s political trust; however, the images that adolescents get of the political system (through family, peers, media and so on) have also consequences on their perceptions about the authorities they encounter in their daily lives. The analysis increases our understanding of how individuals form their political allegiances by showing that the relationship between fairness and trust is more dynamic than has previously been suggested: neither an accumulated set of experiences of authorities nor formal ties with political institutions (as voters and so on) are required for a relationship to emerge.
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- Abdelzadeh, Ali, et al.
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Understanding critical citizenship and other forms of public dissatisfaction : an alternative framework
- 2012
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Ingår i: Politics, Culture and Socialization. - : Verlag Barbara Budrich. - 1866-3427 .- 2196-1417. ; 3:1-2, s. 179-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research has paid much attention to citizen dissatisfaction and the trends of growing political disaffection, cynicism, and scepticism – in short, the emergence of 'critical citizens'. Also, more recently, critical citizens have sometimes been viewed as an asset for democracy. However, despite both pessimistic and optimistic interpretations of public criticism, the issue of conceptualizing negative attitudes has received less attention. The present study was conducted to enrich understanding of this particular dimension of citizens' attitudes. To this end, the paper suggests an alternative theoretical framework for analysing various forms of negative political orientations. The framework has been tested empirically using three types of statistical procedures, which demonstrate its validity and usefulness.
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- Amnå, Erik, et al.
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Skolornas institutionella karaktär och elevernas medborgarkompetens : en jämförelse av olika kommunala och fristående skolor över tid och rum
- 2010
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. - 0039-0747. ; 112:1, s. 23-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the 1990s, the Swedish school system has become increasingly more diversified. Decentralization, the introduction of private schools, the challenge of globalization & increased ethnic diversity among pupils have contributed to an increasing heterogeneity. This project analyses the prospects for civic education in different institutional settings & contexts, in both public & private schools. Using unique survey data 1999 & 2009 we ask which effects different institutional settings have on "citizen competences," i.e., civic engagement, political efficacy, knowledge about democracy & political issues, & democratic values & tolerance. The project breaks down into three distinct but interrelated parts. The first deals with changes over time in young Swedes' civic competences. The second subproject focuses on the way & consequences when controversial issues are taught in different schools & institutional settings. The third sub-project adds a comparative perspective by analyzing similarities & differences among young people & schools in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland & England. Adapted from the source document.
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- Amnå, Erik, 1950-, et al.
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Standby citizens : diverse faces of political passivity
- 2014
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Ingår i: European Political Science Review. - New York, USA : Cambridge University Press. - 1755-7739 .- 1755-7747. ; 6:2, s. 261-281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The current debate on political participation is bound to a discussion about whether citizens are active or passive. This dichotomous notion is nurtured by an extensive normative debate concerning whether passivity is an asset or a threat to democracy; and it is especially manifest in studies of young people's political orientations. Drawing on this discussion, the present study goes beyond the dichotomy by keeping political interest conceptually separate from participation in order to improve our understanding of political passivity. Multivariate cluster analysis of empirical data on Swedish youth suggests that we need to consider three distinctive forms of 'political passivity'. In the paper we present empirical evidence not only of the existence of a particular 'standby citizen', but also of two kinds of genuinely passive young people: unengaged and disillusioned citizens. Alongside active citizens, these people are in distinctly different categories with regard to their political behavior. This entails a new analytical framework that may be used to analyze an empirical phenomenon that has received surprisingly little attention in the literature on political participation and civic engagement.
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- Berglund, Sten, et al.
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Cleavages and Political Transformations
- 2010
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Ingår i: Handbook of European Societies. - Berlin : Springer. - 9780387881980 ; , s. 91-109
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- Berglund, Sten, 1947-, et al.
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The challenge of history in Central and Eastern Europe
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Ingår i: The handbook of political change in Eastern Europe. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar. - 1840648546 ; , s. 13-56
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- Berglund, Sten, 1947-, et al.
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The current state of political science in Sweden
- 2007
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Ingår i: The state of political science in Western Europe. - Opladen : Barbara Budrich. - 9783866490451 ; , s. 342-360
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