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- Andersson, Klas, 1975, et al.
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Learning for the Future? Effects of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) on Teacher Education Students
- 2013
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 5:12, s. 5135-5152
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the most apparent expression of this conviction. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ESD might have the intended effects on teacher education students. More specifically, we account for the results from a panel study on the effects of a course on SD held in autumn 2010 at the University of Gothenburg (n = 323) on teacher education students. The surveys consisted of questions about the students’ concerns about various issues, including issues related to SD, and their attitudes towards SD and views of moral obligations to contributing to SD. The study included a control group (n = 97) consisting of students from the teacher-training programme at University West, which had not and did not include ESD. We find positive effects of ESD on almost all attitudes and perceptions, including e.g., personal responsibility in relation to SD and willingness to contribute to SD, while there is no noticeable effect in the control group. We conclude the paper by discussing the implications of our results for the idea of ESD in teacher training programmes at Swedish higher education institutions.
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- Christensen, Love, et al.
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Changes and Fluctuations in Issue Ownership: The Case of Sweden, 1979–2010
- 2015
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Political Studies. - : Wiley. - 0080-6757 .- 1467-9477. ; 38:2, s. 137-157
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Issue ownership (IO) is 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 issueareas. However, recently many studies have reported change and fluctuations concerning IO, and the same studies also makes it clear that we know surprisingly little about what might cause, or facilitate, change in issue ownership. In fact, we do not even have systematic studies of how stable issue ownership usually is, or how frequent clear shifts in issue ownership actually are.The aim of this article is to explore the extent of change and stability in issue ownership in Sweden. For this purpose, the Swedish national election studies from 1979 to 2010 are utilised. Hence, in light of more recent research that has delivered some tentative indications of that changes in issue ownership have increased over time, this is nothing that is supported in the Swedish case. Instead, issue ownership seems never to have been a particularly stable phenomenon in general. Moreover, these results demonstrate that the ownership in economic issues are more volatile compared to others kind of issues, something which is well in line with the theoretical expectations outlined in the article since performance issues should be more sensitive to changes in voter evaluations.
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- Dahlberg, Stefan, 1975, et al.
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Changing Issue Ownership through Policy Communication
- 2015
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Ingår i: West European Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0140-2382 .- 1743-9655. ; 38:4, s. 817-838
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Issue ownership has been an important concept in the analysis of party competition for several decades. Traditionally, issue ownership has been regarded as a stable phenomenon where parties are advantaged by different political issues. However, several recent studies have reported change in voters' perceptions of parties' issue ownership. To investigate the changeability of issue ownership and how it can be altered, this article investigates the impact of parties' communication attempts through a web-based survey in Sweden. Two major political issues are in focus: employment and healthcare. The results show that parties can indeed improve their ownership by communicating on an issue. Indications were also found that the effects decrease as other parties simultaneously communicate on the same issue, and when those who receive the messages are ideologically distant from the party. However, in several cases results are weak. Many important conditionalities therefore remain to be explored in future studies.
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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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- Lindvall, Johannes, 1975, et al.
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Party choice in hard times: Group-specific responses to economic downturns in Sweden
- 2013
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Ingår i: Electoral Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0261-3794 .- 1873-6890. ; 32:3, s. 529-535
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article asks if, when, and why different groups of voters behave differently in the wake of economic downturns. We examine two Swedish elections (1994 and 2010) that were held just after two deep recessions (the financial crisis of 1991-1993 and the 2008-2009 Great Recession). We find that group differences were much larger in 2010 than they were in 1994. After the 1991-1993 recession, the government's electoral support declined across the board. In 2010, there were large differences between voters with low economic status (who were unlikely to support the government) and voters with high economic status (who were likely to do so). Our findings suggest that group differences in electoral behavior after an economic downturn depend on contextual differences across elections. We argue that future research should pay close attention to the magnitude of economic shocks, the development of asset prices (especially real estate), and changes in social policy. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Martinsson, Johan, 1975, et al.
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Is Accuracy Only For Probability Samples? Comparing Probability and Non-probability Samples in a Country with Almost Full Internet Coverage
- 2013
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Ingår i: Midwest Political Science Association 2013 Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Commercial on-line panels based on non-probability samples have begun to be widely used not only in traditional market research but also in more academic research. But is the quality and accuracy of such data comparable to that of probability based samples? The overall aim of this study is to compare the quality of probability based and non-probability based on-line panels in Sweden, a country with almost full internet coverage. We proceed in two steps. Firstly, we compare the accuracy of three survey modes all using random samples: postal survey, telephone survey, and web survey. Secondly, we compare the accuracy of two commercial non-probability based panels with two commercial probability based panels, using the traditional mail and telephone surveys as benchmark surveys. Demographics are compared to government records, and attitudes are compared to benchmark studies of high quality and high response rate. In order to allow comparisons, seven surveys with comparable questions were run at approximately the same time. We compare the accuracy of the four commercial on-line panels both with and without weights. In contrast to previous studies, the results indicate a surprising similarity in terms of accuracy between probability panels and non-probability panels. The two non-probability based on-line panels do not seem to be less accurate than probability based on-line panels in terms of demographics, nor do their estimates of political attitudes seem to differ more from traditional methods such as a high response rate mail survey. We conclude that a larger comparison based on more demographic and attitudinal variables are needed.
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