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Supplemental Material - Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions
No full textSupplemental Material for Mechanisms of Political Responsiveness: The Information Sources Shaping Elected Representatives' Policy Actions by Evelien Willems Bart Maes and Stefaan Walgrave in Political Research Quarterly</p
De Stemming 2021
No full textDe Stemming 2021 (DS2021) is an online survey amongst a sample of N=2,082 respondents that live in the Flemish region of Belgium. The survey was developed by Jonas Lefevere and Stefaan Walgrave on the request of the Flemish public broadcaster (VRT) and the newspaper De Standaard, to analyse Flemish public opinion two years after the 2019 general elections in Belgium. Consequently, the topics covered in the survey concerned respondents’ political opinions and preferences, policy preferences, and general attitudes towards democracy and politics. The survey also contained questions on the government's response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic (e.g. vaccination strategy, measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19) and disinformation.</p
sj-docx-1-hij-10.1177_19401612211021784 - Supplemental material for Mass Media Occurrence as a Political Career Maker
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-hij-10.1177_19401612211021784 for Mass Media Occurrence as a Political Career Maker by Annelien Van Remoortere, Stefaan Walgrave and Rens Vliegenthart in The International Journal of Press/Politics</p
De Stemming 2023
No full textDe Stemming 2023 (DS2023) is an online survey amongst a representative quota sample of N=2,092 respondents that live in the Flemish region of Belgium. As with previous iterations of the survey in 2020, 2021 and 2022, the survey was developed by Jonas Lefevere and Stefaan Walgrave on the request of the Flemish public broadcaster (VRT) and the newspaper De Standaard, to analyse Flemish public opinion. Consequently, the topics covered in the survey concerned respondents’ political opinions and preferences, policy preferences, and attitudes towards democracy and politics. This survey took a deeper look at political dissatisfaction and distrust, as well as the topic of economic inequality. In addition, some questions about the nitrogen agreement and other topics were added to the survey given current events.Date Submitted: 2023-05-1
Supplemental Material, pp-2016-0209-File003 - Issue reframing by parties: The effect of issue salience and ownership
No full text Supplemental Material, pp-2016-0209-File003 for Issue reframing by parties: The effect
of issue salience and ownership by Jonas Lefevere, Julie Sevenans, Stefaan Walgrave and
Christophe Lesschaeve in Party Politics </p
De Stemming 2020
No full textDe Stemming 2020 (DS2020) is an online survey amongst a sample of N=2,040 respondents that live in the Flemish region of Belgium. The survey was developed by Jonas Lefevere and Stefaan Walgrave on the request of the Flemish public broadcaster (VRT) and the newspaper De Standaard, to analyse Flemish public opinion one year after the 2019 general elections in Belgium. Consequently, the topics covered in the survey concerned respondents’ political opinions and preferences, policy preferences, and general attitudes towards democracy and politics. Given that the survey was conducted in the middle of the peak of the Corona / COVID-19 pandemic, the survey also included an additional bloc of questions concerning support for the emergency measures taken, as well as the government’s handling of the crisis.</p
sj-docx-1-psx-10.1177_00323217221105170 – Supplemental material for Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-psx-10.1177_00323217221105170 for Revisiting Elite Perceptions as Mediator of Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion by Stefaan Walgrave, Stuart Soroka, Peter Loewen, Tamir Sheafer and Karolin Soontjens in Political Studies</p
Politicians' social contacts and their effects
No full textIn the framework of the POLEVPOP-project—funded by the ERC as an advanced grant for Stefaan Walgrave—politicians in 13 countries will be surveyed about political representation (in a broad sense). The questions are diverse: about how politicians evaluate different types of public opinion signals, about politicians’ perceptions of political inequality, their opinion about mass media bias, their representational role perceptions, and so on. The countries involved in the study are: Australia, Belgium (Dutch-speaking and French-speaking regions analyzed separately), Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland.
This preregistration deals with one specific, experimental module of the POLEVPOP-project. The module builds on work about the socio-economic background of politicians, showing that politicians predominantly belong to—and have contact with—the better-off classes in society (see e.g. Carnes & Lupu, 2015). Research has suggested that this explains (at least in part) why the preferences of advantaged societal groups are represented better in political decision-making than the preferences of the disadvantaged: the preferences of better-off groups are more top of mind for politicians as a result of the skew in their personal background and social circles.
Based on these ideas, in this module, we run a survey experiment where politicians are cued to think about their rich or poor social contacts (or no contacts at all). More concretely, politicians in the treatment groups are asked to enter the initials of three social contacts (either poor or rich). In the control group, politicians are not asked any question about their contacts at all. After the treatment, we assess politicians’ preferences regarding two socio-economic policy proposals. Thus, we test how the priming of social contacts with a specific background affects politicians’ political position-taking, which allows us to reason about what would happen if politicians had a more diverse social circle and, thus, if poorer citizens were more top-of-mind for them.
As a test of the skew in politicians’ actual social class environment, we additionally test how easily contacts from the different groups come to mind (via time stamps), and we ask about what type of relation politicians have with their contacts from these groups
Shifting inequalities? Patterns of exclusion and inclusion in emerging forms of political participation
Full text linkPrevious research has found a steady increase in the number of people involved in emerging forms of civic engagements such as Internet campaigns, protests, political consumerism, and alternative lifestyle communities. Verba et al. (1995) have established that various forms of political participation in the United States follow a pattern of structural inequality, based on income, education, gender and civic skills. The growing popularity of emerging action repertoires forces us to re-evaluate the claims of this literature. Do these patterns of inequality persist for the emerging action repertoires across advanced industrialized democracies, or are they becoming even stronger, as Theda Skocpol (2003, 2004) argues? The results of this cross-national analysis with longitudinal comparisons suggest that gender inequalities in emerging political action repertoires have substantially declined since the 1970s, whereas other forms of inequality have persisted. However, contrary to the more pessimistic claims about a "participation paradox", there is no evidence that inequality based on socio-economic status has substantially increased since the 1970s. --
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