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- Wejryd, Johan, 1978-
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On Consumed Democracy : The Expansion of Consumer Choice, Its Causal Effects on Political Engagement, and Its Implications for Democracy
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This is a thesis about expansions of consumer choice, their causal effects on political engagement, and the democratic implications that follow. For material and ideological reasons alike, consumer choices have expanded over the last decades and are likely to become even more present in citizens’ lives in the future. Scholars’ appraisal of this expansion of consumer choice ranges from, on the one hand, seeing it as a threat to active citizenship to, on the other hand, celebrating it as inherently democratic.The thesis accepts the assumed democratic potential of consumer choice as a means for conveying legitimate political preferences and affecting political outcomes. Yet the introduction shows that, from the perspective of normative democratic theory, citizens’ consumer choices are under most circumstances democratically inferior to civic engagement that addresses formal political decision-making. It is thus a pressing question whether there actually are elements in consumer choices that reduce citizens’ inclination to engage in conventional forms of political participation. This empirical question is addressed in the three essays.The essays tap the effects of consumer choices in different contexts, such as parents’ school choices for their children (Essay I), consumer choices that interact with citizens’ political motivations, i.e. “political consumption,” (Essay II), and consumer choices regarding plainly private consumer goods (Essay III). All the three essays account for causality and do so by means of experimental designs. In addition, the essays are similar in that their results point in the same direction: expansions of consumer choice reduce citizens’ willingness to conventional political participation.Given the democratic significance of conventional participation and the pervasiveness of consumer choice, the results are important both from a scholarly perspective and from a broader societal perspective. The results cast new light on a wide range of issues about the extension of consumer choices and their presence in citizens’ lives, including e.g. decisions about user choice in welfare services and advertising regulation. This thesis does by no means end the discussion about such policies, but demonstrates the significance of a certain outlook: issues about the extension of consumer choice are issues about democratic values.
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- Andersson, Ulrika, 1977, et al.
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Västsvenska SOM-undersökningen 2016 - Uppföljning av Vision Västra götaland : SOM-rapport nr 2017:40
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Som en del i utvärderingen av hur väl visioner och målsättningar för Västra Götaland uppnås, har den här rapporten fokuserat på en rad frågor som tillsammans speglar de vanor och attityder som finns hos invånarna i regionen. Med utgångspunkt i 2016 års västsvenska SOM-undersökning har medborgarnas demokratisyn, förtroende för politiker, utvärdering av Västra Götalandsregionens prestationer samt åsikter om infrastruktur och sjukvård kartlagts på detaljerad nivå. Vidare har invånarnas arbetsliv, livsstil och självskattade hälsa analyserats. Resultaten visar på många likheter i regionen men också på stora olikheter, varav många är direkt kopplade till socioekonomiska faktorer, utbildning och ålder. I detta avslutande kapitel sammanfattas och relateras rapportens resultat till Vision Västra Götaland – det goda livet.
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- Andreasson, Maria, 1982, et al.
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Recruitment using 'hot topics'. Consequences for efficiency and representativeness. LORE working paper 2013:2 : Recruitment using 'hot topics'. Consequences for efficiency and representativeness
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cost-efficient and representative recruitment to online panels is a persistent challenge for commercial enterprises and academic research alike. In this study we examine how taking advantage of a “hot topic” that most people find involving and important affects recruitment rates and demographic and attitudinal representativeness. The hypothesis is that “hot topic” recruitment helps attract people that are normally not interested in social or political issues, and people with lower trust in politicians, therefore improving representativeness of those recruited. In this study, the case of the introduction of congestion charges around the city of Gothenburg is used as a local “hot topic”. We compare four surveys with a benchmark. Two random samples, and two opt-in samples. In each of these groups one survey used a topical inviation highlighting the issue of congestion charges, while the other used a general invitation to the survey. We find that using a “hot topic” in the recruitment phase doubles the response rate/recruitment rate, thereby making the topical approach twice as efficient and half as expensive as the general approach.No large differences were found concerning demographical representativeness between topical and general recruitment. Concerning political interest and trust, the hypothesis is partly confirmed: topical invitation attracts more respondents with low political interest, but no significant differencen is found conerning trust in politicians
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- Christensen, Love, et al.
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Field work, survey completion times and data quality in Citizen Panel 4 - 2012. LORE working paper 2013:1 : Field work, survey completion times and data quality in Citizen Panel 4 - 2012
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report examines the inflow over the period of field work of a web survey, the amount of time it takes a respondent to complete the survey (duration) and a few data quality indicators. The first part shows us a very large part of the total completed questionnaires are received during the very first day of field work, close to 50 percent. However, after a field work period extended to three weeks, twice as many completed surveys are received in total. It is also made clear that the time of day when most people tend to answer their questionnaires is between 8 am and 11 am. These hours account for almost 40 percent of all completed questionnaires. We also discover a high amount of variation when it comes to the time respondents spend filling out the web questionnaire. On average, this particular survey took 25 minutes to complete. When it comes to predictors of survey duration it is found that people who answer late at night or who are highly interested in politics spend more time on the survey than others. When it comes to data quality the respondents of the Citizen Panel 4 seem be straight-lining to a fairly high extent. As many as one out of four respondents had straight-lined at least one out of seven question batteries. We also confirm a curve-linear relationship between time spent on survey and data quality. Those filling out the questionnaire just slightly slower than the average respondent are those who are least likely to be straight-lining.
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- Christensen, Love, et al.
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Measuring issue ownership. LORE working paper 2014:1
- 2014
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I flera årtionden har frågeägarskap (eng. Issue Ownership) varit ett värdefullt koncept för att förklara och förutsäga partikonkurrens och partibeteende. Det har också kommit att spela en viktig roll i studier av väljarbeteende. Det finns emellertid inget vedertaget sätt att mäta frågarägarskap på, vilket gett upphov till en mängd olika mått. Denna inkonsekvens har en negativ påverkan på jämförbarheten mellan studier av frågeägarskap i tid och rum. I denna forskningsnot använder vi en experimentell design för att undersöka och jämföra fyra olika mått på frågeägarskap i en internetenkät: ett mått med sju skalsteg, ett med bra politik, ett med bra- och dålig politik och ett med bäst politik. Vår förväntan är att det finns en avvägning mellan kognitiv ansträngning och förklaringskraft när vi mäter frågeägarskap. Kognitiv ansträngning operationaliseras som tiden det tar för en respondent att besvara frågan i en internetenkät och förklaringskraft operationaliseras som förändringen i R2 som sker när respektive frågeägarskapsmått läggs till i en grundläggande regressionsmodell som modellerar sannolikheten att rösta på Socialdemokraterna, Miljöpartiet eller Moderaterna. Stick i stäv med våra antaganden kan vi inte urskilja en tydlig avvägning mellan förklaringskraft och svarstid. De olika måtten följer vår predicerade rangordning för svarstid, men följer inte våra förväntningar gällande förklaringskraft. I synnerhet måttet med sju skalsteg genererar oväntat låg förklaringskraft. När vi tar både svarstid och förklaringskraft i beaktande anser vi att måttet som efterfrågar både bra och dålig politik för respektive parti utgör en bra kombination av förklaringskraft och medelhög svarstid / kognitiv ansträngning.
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- Dahlberg, Stefan, 1975, et al.
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How representative is a self-selected web-panel? The effect on representativeness of different sampling procedures and survey modes
- 2012
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Ingår i: The Annual Meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Orlando, May 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper makes a systematic comparison between different sampling procedures and survey modes by making use of three different types of surveys. In all three surveys, identical questions and wordings are used. However, they are all three separate studies whereas the first study is based on a representative sample of approximately 3 000 Swedish citizens (based on the national census register). This study is carried out as a traditional postal survey by the Swedish SOM-institute. The second study is also based on a representative sample of approximately 3 000 Swedish citizens (recruited by telephone from the national census register), but in this case the survey is entirely carried out as a web-survey, distributed by e-mail. The third and final study is carried out as a web-survey as well but is instead based on a selfrecruited citizen panel of 10 000 Swedish citizens. All three surveys were carried out during October to December, 2011. In order to evaluate potential differences between varying sampling procedures and survey modes, we will a) compare the composition of respondents in terms of general SES-related background characteristics between the three surveys, both in terms of potential differences in levels and correlations, and b) analyze the differences in three sets of questions tapping, values, attitudes and behavior. By doing this we will be able to uncover how representative a large-sample self-recruited panel actually can become as well as what the usage of new technological media in surveys does to an initially representative sample in a technologically advanced country. Important questions that we will be able to answer concerns to what extent different sampling procedures and survey modes affect the representativeness of a sample? If potential differences varies between different types of survey questions, i.e. questions relating to values, attitudes and behavior etc.
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- Dahlberg, Stefan, 1975, et al.
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Issue ownership - How can it be stolen?
- 2011
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Ingår i: MPSA.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Issue ownership (IO) has been an important concept in the analysis of party behaviour, party strategy and party competition for several decades. More recently, it has also been of growing interest to research on voting behaviour. Traditionally, IO has been regarded as a stable phenomenon where parties have different profiles and are advantaged by different political issues or issue areas. However, recently many studies have reported change and fluctuations concerning IO. In order to investigate the changeability of issue ownership and how it can be changed, we have experimentally investigated, through a web-based survey embedded experiment, the impact of three key factors: government performance, priority signalling, and issue framing. The study focuses on one specific issue, which is employment/unemployment. Unemployment is a major political issue in many established democracies and thus worthy of attention in itself. Despite generally weak indications that our experimental manipulations managed to influence issue ownership among our respondents, two findings stand out when summarizing our results: 1) Priority signaling seems more likely to influence issue ownership than government performance or issue framing. 2) People who have moderate evaluations of a party’s policy are more likely to be influenced by efforts to change issue ownership than people who are either clearly negative or clearly positive towards party’s policy.
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- Dumitrescu, Delia, 1980, et al.
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Surveys as a social experience: The lingering effects of survey design choices on respondents’ survey experience and subsequent optimizing behavior
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Ingår i: WAPOR.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We propose that the choice of question format and information provided to the respondents in the course of a survey affects their behavior not just with respect to the immediate items following them, but also on further responses to questions in other domains. We hypothesize that the structure of the survey is socially construed, and when the survey choices are in line with the rules of social conversation, individuals perform better at later items, and are more satisfied with the survey. We find evidence consistent with this expectation from two experiments, but future research is needed to sort out the causal mechanism responsible for these effects.
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