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- Aggeborn, Linuz, 1986-, et al.
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Disentangling the Impact of Civil Association Membership on Political Participation : Evidence from Swedish Panel Data
- 2021
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 51:4, s. 1773-1781
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What is the effect of membership in civil associations on political participation? Membership has been linked to providing social capital and personal networks, which in turn help citizens more easily navigate politics. Yet this link is empirically complex, since politically interested individuals self-select into networks and associations. This research note addresses the impact of membership on different forms of political participation using a panel survey from Sweden that distinguishes between passive and active membership in various types of associations. The baseline results reaffirm a strong association between membership and political participation. The survey's panel dimension is exploited to reveal that earlier scholarship has likely overstated the robustness of membership's participatory effects. Rather, the remaining impact of association membership in the panel specification is mainly driven by types of associations for which the highest degree of selection behaviour is expected.
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- Aggeborn, Linuz, 1986-, et al.
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Granting Immigrants the Right to Vote in National Elections : Empirical Evidence from Swedish Administrative Data
- 2024
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Faced with rising levels of cross-border migration, many countries have extended local voting rights to non-citizen residents. However, empirical evidence indicates that voter turnout among non-naturalized immigrants is lower when compared to citizens. This raises the question of how to explain this difference. A common answer is that the low turnout rates of non-citizen residents are primarily due to the socio-economic composition of this group and the challenges involved in adapting to a new political system. An alternative but less discussed possibility is that the low turnout concerns the nature of the elections. Hence, we examine whether the turnout of non-citizens is hampered because they are only allowed to partake in local elections. Based on a regression discontinuity design (RDD) using Swedish administrative data, we find that turnout could increase by 10-20 percentage points if the voting rights of non-citizens were extended to the national level.
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- Boräng, Frida, 1977, et al.
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Political Equality and Substantive Representation by Interest Groups
- 2022
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 52, s. 1447-1454
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The interest group literature has long struggled with how to empirically approach the normative idea of a non-biased group system. While most previous attempts have focused on the descriptive representation of different types of groups, this article argues that substantive representation of citizens' attitudes is closer to the democratic principle of equal effective participation. It develops a methodological approach that captures substantive representation with respect to agenda priorities and policies by surveying interest groups on how much time they spend on lobbying in different policy areas, and in which direction they lobby on salient policy issues. The responses are compared with opinion data to estimate the level of political (in)equality. The findings from the case of Sweden - where relatively high levels of equality would be expected, but striking levels of inequality based on socio-economic status are instead found - highlight the perseverance of what Schattschneider once called the upper-class bias of the pressure system.
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- Bratsberg, Bernt, et al.
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Birth Order and Voter Turnout
- 2022
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 52:1, s. 475-482
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous studies have stressed the role of a child's family environment for future political participation. This field of research has, however, overlooked that children within the same family have different experiences depending on their birth order. First-borns spend their first years of life without having to compete over their parents' attention and resources, while their younger siblings are born into potential rivalry. We examine differences in turnout depending on birth order, using unique population-wide individual level register data from Sweden and Norway that enables precise within-family estimates. We consistently find that higher birth order entails lower turnout, and that the turnout differential with respect to birth order is stronger when turnout is lower. The link between birth order and turnout holds when we use data from four other, non-Nordic countries. This birth order effect appears to be partly mediated by socio-economic position and attitudinal predispositions.
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- Christensen, Love
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How Does Uncertainty Affect Voters' Preferences?
- 2022
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - 0007-1234. ; 52, s. 1186-1204
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Rational voters care about outcomes, while parties campaign on policy proposals, the outcomes of which are never perfectly known. Can parties exploit this uncertainty to shape public opinion? This article presents a spatial preference model for policy proposals with uncertain outcomes. It reports the results of a large pre-registered survey experiment that involved presenting respondents with predictions about the effects of three policy proposals. The findings show that respondents update their attitudes to the proposals as their beliefs about outcomes change, and that parties are no less able to influence beliefs than non-partisan experts. Contrary to previous research, respondents discount outcome uncertainty by giving equal weight to conflicting optimistic and pessimistic predictions. The study shows that parties can shape public opinion by influencing voter beliefs, and that voters are not repelled by the uncertainty inherent in conflicting information. Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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- Dahlström, Carl, et al.
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The Political Dynamics of Bureaucratic Turnover
- 2019
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - : Cambridge University Press. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 49:3, s. 823-836
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This Research Note explores the political dynamics of bureaucratic turnover. It argues that changes in a government's policy objectives can shift both political screening strategies and bureaucratic selection strategies, which produces turnover of agency personnel. To buttress this conjecture, it analyzes a unique dataset tracing the careers of all agency heads in the Swedish executive bureaucracy between 1960 and 2014. It shows that, despite serving on fixed terms and with constitutionally protected decision-making powers, Swedish agency heads are considerably more likely to leave their posts following partisan shifts in government. The note concludes that, even in institutional systems seemingly designed to insulate bureaucratic expertise from political control, partisan politics can shape the composition of agency personnel.
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- Dellmuth, Lisa Maria, 1981-, et al.
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Elite Communication and the Popular Legitimacy of International Organizations
- 2021
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 51:3, s. 1292-1313
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers the first systematic and comparative analysis of the effects of elite communication on citizen perceptions of the legitimacy of international organizations (IOs). Departing from cueing theory, it develops novel hypotheses about the effects of elite communication under the specific conditions of global governance. It tests these hypotheses by conducting a population-based survey experiment among almost 10,000 residents of three countries in relation to five IOs. The evidence suggests four principal findings. First, communication by national governments and civil society organizations has stronger effects on legitimacy perceptions than communication by IOs themselves. Secondly, elite communication affects legitimacy perceptions irrespective of whether it invokes IOs’ procedures or performance as grounds for criticism or endorsement. Thirdly, negative messages are more effective than positive messages in shaping citizens' legitimacy perceptions. Fourthly, comparing across IOs indicates that elite communication is more often effective in relation to the IMF, NAFTA and WTO, than the EU and UN.
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- Duus-Otterström, Göran, 1978
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Emissions Sufficientarianism
- 2024
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 54:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper defends strong emissions sufficientarianism as an approach to assigning moral rights to generate greenhouse gas emissions. Strong emissions sufficientarianism holds that only subsistence emitting is morally permissible. This paper argues that, since it is uncertain how many subsistence emissions there will be, the present generation owes it to future generations to refrain from generating non-subsistence emissions, not to risk imposing on them a tragic choice between sacrificing themselves and contributing to very dangerous climate change. The paper also addresses the charge that emissions sufficientarianism, in general, is too permissive since it entails a right to contribute to very dangerous climate change. The overall message is that, given the moral urgency posed by climate change, there is little room for distributive principles besides emissions sufficientarianism. This casts doubt on the appropriateness of relying on carbon budgets in assigning rights to emit.
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- Duus-Otterström, Göran, 1978
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Subsistence Emissions and Climate Justice
- 2023
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Ingår i: British Journal of Political Science. - 0007-1234 .- 1469-2112. ; 53:3, s. 919-933
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The climate justice literature typically endorses a moral right to produce subsistence emissions, but this right appears problematic considering how urgent it has become to reduce all emissions. It seems that we are currently facing a dilemma between respecting people’s right to subsistence and keeping emissions within a reasonably safe budget. This article argues, however, that there is no reason why a moral permission to produce subsistence emissions must be accompanied by an exemption from responsibility. Even when we are dealing with subsistence emissions, we can demand that people correct for having emitted if they can do so without jeopardizing their own vital interests. This reduces the tension between the right to produce subsistence emissions and avoiding very significant climate change. If many emitters offset their subsistence emissions or contribute to adaptation and compensation because of them, the negative consequences of recognizing this right are tempered when it comes to both mitigating climate change and responding to its adverse effects.
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