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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.
(författare)
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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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- Nilsson, R. Henrik, 1976, et al.
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Improving ITS sequence data for identification of plant pathogenic fungi
- 2014
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Ingår i: Fungal Diversity. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1560-2745 .- 1878-9129. ; 67:1, s. 11-19
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Plant pathogenic fungi are a large and diverse assemblage of eukaryotes with substantial impacts on natural ecosystems and human endeavours. These taxa often have complex and poorly understood life cycles, lack observable, discriminatory morphological characters, and may not be amenable to in vitro culturing. As a result, species identification is frequently difficult. Molecular (DNA sequence) data have emerged as crucial information for the taxonomic identification of plant pathogenic fungi, with the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region being the most popular marker. However, international nucleotide sequence databases are accumulating numerous sequences of compromised or low-resolution taxonomic annotations and substandard technical quality, making their use in the molecular identification of plant pathogenic fungi problematic. Here we report on a concerted effort to identify high-quality reference sequences for various plant pathogenic fungi and to re-annotate incorrectly or insufficiently annotated public ITS sequences from these fungal lineages. A third objective was to enrich the sequences with geographical and ecological metadata. The results – a total of 31,954 changes – are incorporated in and made available through the UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi (http://unite.ut.ee), including standalone FASTA files of sequence data for local BLAST searches, use in the next-generation sequencing analysis platforms QIIME and mothur, and related applications. The present initiative is just a beginning to cover the wide spectrum of plant pathogenic fungi, and we invite all researchers with pertinent expertise to join the annotation effort.
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- Schmidl, Helen, 1975-
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Från vildmark till grön ängel : Receptionsanalyser av läsning i åttonde klass
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The subject of this dissertation is Swedish upper secondary pupils’ reception of novels read as part of their literature instruction. The main purpose is to study and compare the reading of female pupils with that of male pupils and to analyze to what extent attention is paid to their private reading experiences in the literary teaching. What strategies do the students use to interpret and discuss fiction? And what is the relationship between their private reading habits and the way fiction is studied at school? Consequently, the subject field of this qualitative study concerns not only teenagers’ private reading habits, but also gender related issues, school adjusted reading routines and didactic matters.Reading at school differs in many ways from the pupils’ private reading habits, but there are also differences regarding the students’ attitudes towards reading as such. There proved to be certain diversities between the reading habits of boys and girls. The boys read in general less than the girls, and many boys were interested in reading adventurous and exciting stories. The girls were more into reading realistic novels, and to them it was important that they could identify with the characters. Many pupils responded personally to their reading. Instead of reflecting on the meaning of a text and comparing it to other texts or phenomena of the surrounding world, their reception confined itself to categories like “boring” or “exciting”. Merely a few students included a more profound literary analysis in their responses.An important aim of literature instruction must be to broaden the pupils’ literary repertoires and to make them improve their reading skills. This study shows that to achieve these improvements the students must feel involved, which means that literature instruction must be adapted to the literary cultures of both boys and girls.
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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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Ovisshetens tid – inledningskapitel
- 2023
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Ingår i: Ovisshetens tid. - Göteborg : Göteborgs universitet. - 9789189673540 ; , s. 11-24
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vi befinner oss i ovisshetens tid. Säkerhetsläget i omvärlden är påtagligt försämrat. Det rasar ett krig i Europas östligaste delar. Ingen vet hur länge det kommer att pågå, om fler länder kommer att drabbas eller hur omfattande förlusterna kommer att bli. Kriget pågår här och nu. Men det påverkar generationer framöver. Ovisshet och oro kring vårt eget lands säkerhet har bidragit till ett paradigmskifte där tvåhundra års alliansfrihet brutits i samband med att Sverige ansökte om medlemskap i Nato. När det svenska inträdet kommer att ske är oklart. Det har sagts att ovisshet ofta härstammar från en känsla av förvåning, och förvåning är nog en adekvat beskrivning av reaktionerna på Turkiets, och senare även Ungerns, rävspel kring ratificeringen av Sveriges ansökan. När känslan av förvåning hunnit pågå under en tid övergår den ofta i ovisshet. Och det är ungefär där vi står nu. I detta inledande kapitel riktar vi blicken mot hur den svenska befolkningen upplever utvecklingen i Sverige, både generellt och med avseende på den ekono- miska situationen. Allmänhetens oro för ekonomisk kris, ett nytt världskrig och inskränkningar i yttrandefriheten granskas, likaså i vilken mån och i vilka situationer det möjligen skulle vara befogat att begränsa det fria ordet. I kapitlet analyseras också förtroendet för våra politiska institutioner och för våra politiker; det senare med utgångspunkt i hur uppskattade olika partiledare är.
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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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- Bertilsson, Monica, et al.
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Association of stigmatizing attitudes with people's opinion of depression as a valid reason for sickness absence: A Swedish vignette study
- 2022
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Ingår i: WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION. - : IOS Press. - 1051-9815. ; 73:2, s. 495-504
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Depression is a common cause of sickness absence (SA) and also highly associated with stigma. Few studies have addressed the role of stigma in relation to SA. OBJECTIVE: To investigate if attitudes to depression were associated with the public's opinion of depression as a valid reason of SA. METHODS: The study population (n = 2413) originated from a web-based panel of citizens. The survey included a short vignette describing a person with symptoms of depression and the person's work tasks, followed by a question on recommendation of SA. Negative attitudes were measured by the Depression Stigma Scale. Logistic regressions were used to estimate the odds ratios (OR) for the likelihood of not recommending SA, controlling for individual and work-related co-variates. RESULTS: The crude association between negative attitudes and not recommending SA was OR 2.15 (95% CI, 1.76-2.62). In the fully adjusted model the OR was 1.76 (95% CI, 1.40 - 2.21) for not recommending SA. CONCLUSIONS: Participants with negative attitudes to depression were more likely to not consider depression as a valid reason of sickness absence. The study supports theories on layered stigma; attitudes from one arena are related to other arenas. Future studies are needed to confirm our findings.
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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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- 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
- 2014
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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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- 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
- 2016
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Ingår i: International journal of public opinion research. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0954-2892 .- 1471-6909. ; 28:4, s. 534-561
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We propose that the design of earlier survey sections affects respondents’ response strategy to later unrelated questions. We hypothesize that the structure of the survey is socially construed, and when earlier survey design features are respectful of the rules of social conversation, individuals are more likely to optimize their responses later on and express more satisfaction in end-of-survey evaluations. We find evidence supporting these expectations from two experiments, but more research is needed to sort out the causal mechanism responsible for these effects.
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- Esaiasson, Peter, 1957, et al.
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Flyktingkrisen och medborgarnas förtroende för samhällets institutioner – en forskarrapport
- 2016
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Rapporten handlar om hur samhällsförtroendet påverkades av flyktingkrisen hösten 2015. I ett inledande kapitel används psykologiska legitimitetsteorier för att förklara på vilket sätt som ett utbrett medborgerligt förtroende för de grundläggande institutionerna är viktigt för ett väl fungerande samhälle. Tre typer av grundläggande institutioner identifieras: input-institutioner (riksdag och regering), output-institutioner (myndigheter) och social, mellanmänsklig, tillit. Efter en redogörelse för händelseförloppet under hösten 2015 presenteras rapportens datamaterial som hämtats från opinionslaboratoriet LORE vid Göteborgs universitet. Datamaterialetbygger på webb-baserade paneler med (självrekryterade) urval av medborgare som tillfrågats om sina samhällsuppfattningar före, under och efter krisen. Analyserna visar att flyktingfrågan hade haft en polariserande inverkan på svenskarnas samhällsförtroende före krisen, men att själva krisen endast i liten utsträckning påverkade samhällsförtroendet.
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- Fagman, Henrik, 1975, et al.
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Nuclear accumulation of full-length and truncated adenomatous polyposis coli protein in tumor cells depends on proliferation.
- 2003
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Ingår i: Oncogene. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0950-9232 .- 1476-5594. ; 22:38, s. 6013-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumor suppressor is a nucleocytoplasmic protein. The nuclear accumulation of APC was recently found to vary depending on cell density, suggesting that putative APC function(s) in the nucleus is controlled by the establishment of cell contacts. We report here that the density-dependent redistribution of APC between nucleus and cytoplasm prevails in 6/6 thyroid and colorectal carcinoma cell lines. Moreover, mutated APC lacking known nuclear localization sequences had the similar distribution pattern as the full-length protein. APC invariably accumulated in the nuclei of Ki-67 expressing cells, but was largely cytoplasmic when cell cycle exit was induced by serum starvation or at high cell density. APC colocalized with beta-catenin in the nucleus only in one cell line (SW480). Also, APC maintained a predominantly nuclear position in early confluent states when cytoplasmic beta-catenin was recruited to newly formed adherens-like junctions. The results indicate that nuclear targeting of APC is driven by cell cycle entry rather than altered cell-cell contact. The ability of C-terminally truncated APC to accumulate in the nucleus suggests that nuclear import signals other than NLS1(APC) and NLS2(APC) are functionally important. Residual function(s) of N-terminal APC fragments in tumor cells carrying APC mutations might be beneficial to tumor growth and survival.
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- Friberg-Fernros, Henrik, 1972, et al.
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Media and the power of naming: An experimental study of racist, xenophobic and nationalist party labels
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ethnicities. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7968 .- 1741-2706. ; 17:5, s. 727-745
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Racism has been widely discredited in past decades, and opinions that are perceived to be in conflict with the anti-racist norm are considered improper. Therefore, the anti-racist norm arguably represents an obstacle for anti-immigration parties. They must ensure that their criticism is not perceived as racism since that threatens to delegitimize the party and thereby undermine its possibilities for electoral success. The idea of the study is that the existence of the anti-racist norm make descriptions of these parties by the media decisive: the stronger connection to racism, the more severe the parties’ violation of the anti-racist norm is perceived by the public, which make voters less inclined to vote for them. This hypothesis is experimentally tested by labelling a fictive party differently and the result supports the basic idea of the study albeit the ‘racist’ label itself surprisingly does not decrease support more than the label of xenophobia.
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- Guan, Jikui, et al.
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Clinical response of the novel activating ALK-I1171T mutation in neuroblastoma to the ALK inhibitor ceritinib.
- 2018
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Ingår i: Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies. - : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. - 2373-2873. ; 4:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Tumors with Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) fusion rearrangements, including non-small cell lung cancer and anaplastic large cell lymphoma, are highly sensitive to ALK tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), underscoring the notion that such cancers are addicted to ALK activity. While mutations in ALK are heavily implicated in childhood neuroblastoma, response to the ALK TKI crizotinib has been disappointing. Embryonal tumors in patients with DNA repair defects such as Fanconi anemia (FA) often have a poor prognosis, due to lack of therapeutic options. Here we report a child with underlying FA and ALK mutant high-risk neuroblastoma responding strongly to precision therapy with the ALK TKI ceritinib. Conventional chemotherapy treatment caused severe, life-threatening toxicity. Genomic analysis of the initial biopsy identified germ-line FANCA mutations as well as a novel ALK-I1171T variant. ALK-I1171T generates a potent gain-of-function mutant, as measured in PC12 cell neurite outgrowth and NIH3T3 transformation. Pharmacological inhibition profiling of ALK-I1171T in response to various ALK TKIs identified an 11-fold improved inhibition of ALK-I1171T with ceritinib when compared with crizotinib. Immunoaffinity-coupled LC-MS/MS phosphoproteomics analysis indicated a decrease in ALK signaling in response to ceritinib. Ceritinib was therefore selected for treatment in this child. Mono-therapy with ceritinib was well tolerated and resulted in normalized catecholamine markers and tumor shrinkage. After 7.5 months treatment, residual primary tumor was surgically removed and exhibited hallmarks of differentiation together with reduced Ki67 levels. Clinical follow-up after 21 months treatment revealed complete clinical remission including all metastatic sites. Therefore, ceritinib presents a viable therapeutic option for ALK-positive neuroblastoma.
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- Hansla, André, 1981, et al.
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Explaining voting behavior in the Gothenburg congestion tax referendum
- 2017
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Ingår i: Transport Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0967-070X .- 1879-310X. ; 53, s. 98-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2016 Elsevier LtdThe Gothenburg congestion tax was introduced in 2013 and later subjected to a consultative referendum where the citizens, despite getting first-hand experience with the scheme, rejected it. This article explains voting behavior in the referendum using both self-expressed motives and five nested models to test various explanations suggested in previous research. Drawing on an extensive longitudinal study, we conclude first that although a majority voted against the tax in the referendum, attitudinal preferences have become more positive since its introduction – supporting previous findings and hypothesis of familiarity effects. Second, we present a model for voting behavior that explains significant portions of the variance, concluding that it is not the outcomes of the charges that are important, but rather if the charges are in line with basic values, if the uses of the revenues (in this case, infrastructure investments) are supported, and if the institutions and processes introducing the charges are perceived as legitimate, trustworthy, and responsive. The article ends with general policy recommendations on the basis of these findings.
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- Harring, Niklas, 1979, et al.
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Explaining Ups and Downs in the Public’s Environmental Concern in Sweden: The Effects of Ecological Modernization, the Economy, and the Media.
- 2011
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Ingår i: Organization & Environment. - : SAGE Publications. - 1086-0266 .- 1552-7417. ; , s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, the authors search for explanations to ups and downs in the Swedish public’s environmental concern since the 1980s. In line with previous research, this study examines the effects of economic cycles and media coverage. In addition, the authors hypothesize that the economy will affect environmental concern less over time because of the entry of ecological modernization into elite discourse. Using time series regression analysis and a unique data set, we study Swedish public opinion during more than 20 years. Economic cycles affect the public’s environmental concern but to a diminishing degree. Public environmental concern is also affected by the amount of media coverage. In accordance with earlier observations, it is concluded that both the economy and media content have an independent effect on public environmental concern. However, the previously observed conflict between economic cycles and public environmental concern is weakened, potentially because of the elite group embracement of an ecological modernization discourse.
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- Harring, Niklas, 1979, et al.
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Har vi råd med en god miljö?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Holmberg, S. och Weibull, L. (red.) Svensk höst. Trettiofyra kapitel om politik, medier och samhälle. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789189673168 ; , s. 201-211
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- Harring, Niklas, 1979, et al.
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Vart tog klimatet vägen?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Sören Holmberg, Lennart Weibull, Henrik Oscarsson (red.) Lycksalighetens Ö. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789189673212 ; , s. 205-214
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- Hedenrud, Tove, 1967, et al.
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Attitudes towards sales and use of over-the-counter drugs in Sweden in a reregulated pharmacy market: A population-based study
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0961-7671 .- 2042-7174. ; 27:1, s. 17-24
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2018 Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Objectives: To analyse attitudes towards sales and use of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs in the Swedish adult population. Methods: Data were collected through the web-based Citizen Panel comprising 21 000 Swedes. A stratified sample of 4058 participants was emailed a survey invitation. Questions concerned use of OTC drugs, and attitudes towards sales and use of OTC drugs. Correlations between the attitudinal statements were assessed using Spearman's rank correlation. Associations between attitudes and participant characteristics were analysed using multinomial logistic regression. Key findings: Participation rate was 64%. Altogether 87% reported use of OTC drugs in the last 6 months. Approximately 10% of participants stated that they used OTC drugs at the first sign of illness, and 9% stated that they used more OTC drugs compared with previously, due to increased availability. The statement on use of OTC drugs at first sign of illness correlated with the statement about using more OTC drugs with increased availability. Socio-demographic factors (age, sex and education) and frequent use of OTC drugs were associated with attitudes to sales and use of OTC drugs. Conclusions: Increased use due to greater availability, in combination with OTC drug use at first sign of illness illustrates the need for continuous education of the population about self-care with OTC drugs. Increased awareness of the incautious views on OTC drugs in part of the population is important. Swedish policy-makers may use such knowledge in their continuous evaluation of the 2009 pharmacy reform to review the impact of sales of OTC drugs in retail outlets on patient safety and public health. Pharmacy and healthcare staff could be more proactive in asking customers and patients about their use of OTC drugs and offering them advice.
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- Hensing, Gunnel, 1956, et al.
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Differences in how women and men in a Swedish population-based sample think about sick leave: A cross-sectional vignette study
- 2024
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Ingår i: WORK-A JOURNAL OF PREVENTION ASSESSMENT & REHABILITATION. - 1051-9815 .- 1875-9270. ; 77:3, s. 827-838
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Gender differences in attitudes towards depression gives reason to believe that sociocultural gender norms play a role in other areas. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to test (i) if the likelihood to think that sick leave with depression symptoms is not reasonable varies between women and men, and (ii) if the likelihood to think sick leave is not reasonable varies depending on the gender of the individual with depression symptoms. METHODS: A study population of 3147 participants responded to a web-survey with a written case briefly describing a man or woman with symptoms of depression. Respondents were asked if they thought it is reasonable that the person was sick listed for two weeks. Logistic regression was used to analyse the data. RESULTS: After controlling for age, education, self-rated health, and respondent's own experience of sickness absence the adjusted OR was 1.45 (95% CI 1.25-1.67) for men being less likely to think sick-leave was reasonable. Gender difference decreased when adjusting for negative attitudes towards depression (adjusted OR 1.24, 95% CI 1.06-1.44). No difference was found between how women and men thought about sick leave in relation to the gender of the case described in the vignette. CONCLUSION: Men were more likely to think that sick leave was not reasonable with decreased OR after adjustment for negative attitudes towards depression. Gender norms might be part of the explanation for differences but are challenging to test. This study contributes to a bourgeoning research field on gendered attitudes and sick leave, in terms of theoretical reasoning and methodological choice.
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- Håkonsen, Helle, 1980, et al.
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Consumer preferences for over-the-counter drug retailers in the reregulated Swedish pharmacy market
- 2016
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Ingår i: Health Policy. - : Elsevier BV. - 0168-8510. ; 120:3, s. 327-333
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following a large regulatory reform in 2009, which ended the state's pharmacy monopoly, non-pharmacy retailers in Sweden today sell certain over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The aim of this study was to investigate consumer preferences regarding OTC drug retailers and the reasons for choosing a pharmacy versus non-pharmacy retailer. We conducted a web survey aimed at Swedish adults. Out of a stratified sample of 4058 persons, 2594 agreed to take part (48% women; mean age: 50.3 years). Questions related to OTC drug use, retailer choice and factors affecting the participants' preferences for OTC drug retailers. Logistic regression was conducted to analyse OTC drug use and reasons for retailer choice in relation to sex, age and education. Nine in ten participants reported OTC drug use in the 6 months prior to the study. For their last OTC purchase, 76% had gone to a pharmacy, 20% to a grocery shop and 4% to a convenience store, gas station or online. Geographic proximity, opening hours and product range were reported as the most important factors in retailer choice. Counselling by trained staff was important to 57% of participants. The end of the state's pharmacy monopoly and the increase in number of pharmacies seem to have impacted more on Swedish consumers' purchase behaviours compared with the deregulation of OTC drug sales.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Bridging the ideological gap? How fairness perceptions mediate the effect of revenue recycling on public support for carbon taxes in the United States, Canada and Germany(sic)(sic)(sic)Palabras Clave
- 2021
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Ingår i: Review of Policy Research. - : Wiley. - 1541-132X .- 1541-1338. ; 38:5, s. 529-554
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Carbon taxes are frequently advocated as a means of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, yet their political feasibility remains a challenge. To enhance their political appeal, carbon tax proponents have proposed revenue recycling as a means of alleviating public concern with this instrument's visible costs. Analyzing data from identical survey-experiments administered in the United States, Canada, and Germany, we examine the extent to which returning revenues to the public has the potential to broaden the political acceptability of carbon taxes across ideological and national contexts. While public opinion is sensitive to the cost attributes of carbon taxes, we find that in some cases, opposition to carbon taxes can be offset by a reduction in income taxes. However, these effects tend to be modest in size, limited to some ideological groups, and varied across countries. Moreover, we demonstrate that fairness perceptions are a crucial mechanism linking revenue recycling to carbon tax support in all countries examined.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Consensus or Conflict? Niche Party Behaviors and Their Electoral Success
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Social Science and Humanities Studies. - 2768-105X. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Niche parties are now a common feature in most countries with multi-party systems. Thus far, however, the literature only provides scattered evidence and unsatisfying theoretical explanations of the mechanisms behind niche parties’ electoral outcomes. In this paper, we propose a mechanism potentially explaining the variation in niche parties’ electoral outcomes: niche party issue distinctiveness. Distinguishing themselves from their political competition, niche parties demonstrate their raison d’être to voters by prioritizing their respective niche issues. In this paper, the functioning of this mechanism is further theorized by showing how various party behaviors – consensus-seeking or conflict-mobilizing – affect the niche party electorate’s perception of the utility of the niche party vote for achieving their preferred policy. This mechanism is tested empirically by a randomized survey vignette experiment,conducted on two different cases of typical niche parties: pro-environment parties and anti-immigration parties. Our experiment indicates that niche party electorates tend to rewards niche parties pursuing a conflict-mobilizing party behavior while rather punishing niche parties pursuing a consensus-seeking party behavior. This research nuances the work done so far on niche parties by placing voting behavior and voter psychology in the center of both our theoretical reasoning and empirical testing.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Do Ecological Citizens Exist? Operationalising Ecological Citzenship.
- 2009
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Ingår i: The Swedish National Political Science Association Conference in Örebro, 8-9 October 2009.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As the discourses of ecological sustainability point towards the active involvement of individuals in the environmental work as an important prerequisite for targeting the sources of environmental degradation, one of the main foci for contemporary environmental policy and political theory is the need for comprehensive individual lifestyle-changes. Within political theory an Ecological Citizenship, reinterpreting the traditional state/individual relationship by straddling the private – public; national – global; and present – future divides, has been suggested a valuable approach to realising a personal responsibility for the environment. Empirical research analysing the prospects for ecological citizenship to function as a route towards individual environmental responsibility is, however, to date lacking in the literature. In this paper we elaborate on how the theory of ecological citizenship can be made empirically operational. We also report preliminary findings from a survey of 3 000 Swedish inhabitants and analyse to what extent the Swedish public fulfil the requirements of different aspects of ecological citizenship theory.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Ecological citizenship: a driver of pro-environmental behaviour?
- 2014
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Ingår i: Environmental Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0964-4016 .- 1743-8934. ; 23:3, s. 434-453
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In theory, ecological citizenship (EC) has been suggested as a driver of individual pro-environmental behaviour (PEB), providing a more stable foundation for lifestyle changes than reliance on external policy tools. The relevance of EC for explaining PEB is tested by applying data from a Swedish survey designed to capture various aspects of EC. A significant proportion of Swedes fulfil the values-based requirements of ecological citizenship, as outlined in EC-theory. Furthermore, individuals who think along the lines of EC are more likely than others to behave in an environmentally friendly manner in their day-to-day activities. Certain aspects of EC are more important for PEB than others, which implies the need for further theoretical development of EC theory.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Green behaviour - a matter of citizenship?
- 2010
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Ingår i: The dynamics of citizenship in the post-political world, Stockholm, May 26-28 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years, an increasing number of scholars have pointed out the active involvement of individuals in pro-environmental activities as an important prerequisite for targeting the sources of environmental degradation. Such involvement can for example consist in a willingness to accept environmental policies or in the adoption of comprehensive individual lifestyle-changes. Within political theory an Ecological Citizenship (EC), reinterpreting the traditional state/individual relationship by straddling the private – public; national – global; and present – future divides, has been suggested a valuable approach to realising a personal responsibility for the environment. As of today, examples of empirical research analysing the prospects for ecological citizenship to actually function as a route towards individual environmental responsibility are still rare. For example, we do not know if any of the major EC-characteristics (i.e., a stronger emphasis on responsibility for private, global and future consequences) actually are correlated with environmental behaviour among citizens. In this paper we distinguish between and compare two sets of individuals, one group guided by traditional (liberal) democratic political citizenship ideals and another group representing the citizenship ideals emphasised in the ecological citizenship-literature. The key question in the paper is weather and to what degree “traditional” citizens with strong green attitudes differs from ecological citizens in regard to environmental behaviour. Is a general green attitudinal orientation enough to bring about behavioural changes? Or does it also take a different conception of citizenship to achieve this? The paper uses survey data based on a mail questionnaire sent out in Spring 2009 to a random sample of the Swedish population. We conclude that ecological citizens are considerably more pro-environmental in their behaviour than others and that there is in fact a negative correlation between traditional (liberal) democratic citizenship ideals and pro-environmental behaviour, which is not the least an interesting finding seen in the light of the considerable number of environmentally oriented theorists arguing that there is a tense relationship between liberal democracy and sustainable development.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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Hot och oro - att stämma i "Becken"
- 2006
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Ingår i: Holmberg, S. & Weibull, L. (red). Du stora nya värld, SOM-rapport 39. - Göteborg : SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet. - 9189673093
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- Jagers, Sverker C., et al.
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On how to make the theoretical concept of ecological citizenship empirically operational
- 2009
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Ingår i: Papers from Uppsala Forum Workshop: Climate Change Policy after Copenhagen- Politics, Policy and Ethics, Uppsala University, September 28, 2009. ; , s. 1-15
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- As the discourses of ecological sustainability point towards the active involvement of individuals in the environmental work as an important prerequisite for targeting the sources of environmental degradation, one of the main foci for contemporary environmental policy and political theory is the need for comprehensive individual lifestyle-changes. Within political theory an Ecological Citizenship, reinterpreting the traditional state/individual relationship by straddling the private - public; national - global; and present - future divides, has been suggested a valuable approach to realising a personal responsibility for the environment. Empirical research analysing the prospects for ecological citizenship to function as a route towards individual environmental responsibility is, however, to date lacking in the literature. In this paper we elaborate on how the theory of ecological citizenship can be made empirically operational.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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The impact of compensatory measures on public support for carbon taxation: an experimental study in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Climate Policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-3062 .- 1752-7457. ; 19:2, s. 147-160
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study aims at better understanding how, and to what extent, perceptions of a policy instrument's distributional effects impact on policy support, focusing on the case of CO2 taxes on petrol in Sweden. Through a large-scale (N = 5000) randomized survey experiment with a 2 x 3 factorial design, the extent to which perceptions of fairness determine attitudes to a suggested increase of the Swedish CO2 tax is explored. Furthermore, the study considers whether these effects change with the level of the suggested tax increase, as well as whether negative sentiments can be alleviated by combining it with a compensatory measure in the shape of a simultaneous income tax cut financed by the revenues from the tax increase. The results show that a higher tax increase is both viewed as more unfair and enjoys weaker support. Furthermore, compensatory measures can be a powerful policy design tool to increase perceptions of the policy as fair, but the effect of compensation on policy support is conditioned by the individual's left-right ideological position. Whereas people self-identifying to the right react favourably to compensatory measures, people self-identifying to the left become less supportive of a tax increase when combined with a simultaneous cut in income taxes. Key policy insights Perceptions of fairness are highly important for explaining public support for climate policy tools, specifically CO2 taxes. Compensatory measures can be a powerful policy design tool to increase perceptions of the policy as less unfair. However, the effect of compensatory measures on policy support is conditioned by ideological position, and only successful among people to the ideological right. In contexts dominated by right-wing ideals, a combination of a tax and a compensatory scheme may be a successful route forward towards increased climate policy support. In left-oriented contexts the results imply that a CO2 tax without compensation seems more likely to increase support.
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- Jagers, Sverker C., 1967, et al.
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The value of citizenship - ecological citizens and pro-environmental behaviour
- 2010
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Ingår i: Swedish Political Science Association Meeting, sep 30 - oct 2 2010.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The active involvement of individuals in pro-environmental activities has been increasingly emphasized as an important prerequisite for targeting the sources of environmental degradation. Such involvement can consist in the adoption of comprehensive individual lifestyle-changes or in acceptance of environmental policies. Within political theory an Ecological Citizenship (EC), reinterpreting the traditional state/individual relationship by straddling the private – public; national – global; and present – future divides, has been suggested a valuable approach to realizing a personal responsibility for the environment. As of today, however, empirical research concerning whether the major EC-characteristics are actually an important determinant of pro-environmental behaviour among citizens are still lacking. We compare two sets of individuals: one group guided by traditional (liberal) democratic political citizenship ideals and another representing the ideals emphasized in the ecological citizenship-literature. The key question in the paper is weather ecological citizens differ from “traditional” citizens with strong green attitudes in their environmental behaviour. Is a general green attitudinal orientation enough to bring about behavioural changes? Based on survey data from a Swedish mail questionnaire in Spring 2009, we conclude that ecological citizens are considerably more pro-environmental in their behaviour than others, even when taking general environmental attitudes into account.
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- Jagers, Sverker, et al.
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Testing the Importance of Individuals’ Motives for Explaining Environmentally Significant Behavior
- 2017
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Ingår i: Social Science Quarterly. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0038-4941 .- 1540-6237. ; 98:2, s. 644-658
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ObjectiveThis article explores how different motives affect behavior, and attempts to explain how the causal chain of values and beliefs forms our understanding of and motives for private-sphere environmentally significant behaviors (ESBs). As a point of departure, we postulate that traditional models focusing primarily on individual-level motivation as a driver for ESB should benefit significantly from making a distinction in the dependent variable between: (1) behaviors that are explicitly pro-environmental, judging both by their outcomes and the individual's stated motives for undertaking them; (2) behaviors that have a positive environmental impact but that are connected to motives other than environmental ones; as well as (3) behaviors where both environmental and other motives coincide as drivers for ESB.MethodsIn order to answer our research questions, we use survey data collected from a random sample from the Swedish population register. The main dependent variable is the self-reported frequency of 12 different kinds of nonactivist, private-sphere behaviors. We employ ordinary least square regressions to analyze the explanatory strength of individual-level motivational factors for ESB when taking stated motives for behavior into account.Results and ConclusionThe results support our main assumption that to explain drivers for ESB, stated motives should be taken into account. For all of the 12 ESBs in the survey, a considerable share of the respondents do not perceive or motivate behavior as pro-environmentalism at all, and others provide multiple motives for their behavior, combining, for example, economic or health with environmentalism. Furthermore, when analyzing the relationship between a scientifically well-established model aspiring to explain pro-environmental behavior, and individuals’ behavioral perceptions and their stated behavior, we find that the explanatory power of this model is clearly sensitive to people's stated motives.
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- Jagers, Sverker, et al.
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The Environmental Psychology of the Ecological Citizen : Comparing Competing Models of Pro-Environmental Behavior
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social Science Quarterly. - : Wiley. - 0038-4941 .- 1540-6237. ; 97:5, s. 1005-1022
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ObjectivesThe overall objective of this article is to contribute to the identification of underlying factors causing individuals’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB).MethodsThis is done by the amalgamation of an empirically-derived theory originating in the behavioral science research—the value-belief-norm (VBN) theory (e.g., Stern et al., 1999)—and a rather recently developed theory in political science—the ecological citizenship (EC) model (e.g., Dobson, 2003). Using survey data, this article empirically tests the explanatory power of these two theories, both separately and as a joint model.
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- Jakobsson Bergstad, Cecilia, 1967, et al.
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An experimental study on policy makers’ communication about a congestion charge, individual value preferences, perceptions of arguments and acceptability
- 2012
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Ingår i: The 5th International Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Groningen, The Netherlands, August 29-31.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An important part of the implementation of controversial policy measures such as congestion charging is the communication between policy makers and the public. This is a web-based experimental study aiming at studying acceptability of a suggested congestion charge and different types of arguments. The arguments were either framed as environmental, stressing gains such as sustainability both locally and globally, or economic arguments stressing gains such as reduced travel times, improved health and the use of revenues for investing in roads etc. The aim was further to investigate the relationships between biospheric and egoistic value preferences and the assessments of the arguments quality. The final sample consisted of 503 participants divided into three experimental conditions (economic arguments, environmental arguments and combined) and one control group. A generally low acceptability of the suggested charge was found, but it was significantly higher in all the experimental conditions. The egoistic arguments yielded the highest mean acceptability, and 28 percent of the respondents supported a charge being implemented in their city compared to 14 percent in the control group. Biospheric values were related to a more positive evaluation of the arguments in the environmental argument condition and more negative when judging the economic arguments.
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