Helping citizens to lobby themselves. Experimental evidence on the effects of citizen lobby engagement on internal efficacy and political support

IF 4.6 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Ellis Aizenberg, Hannah Werner, Sharon van Geldere
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Ideally, interest groups form a link between citizens and politics. However, this link is often flawed in practice. Many citizens also feel that the average citizen is not heard and that special interests exert undue influence on policymaking. One proposal to address this problem is the stimulation of so-called citizen lobby: Ordinary citizens can use lobbying strategies to achieve influence on decision-makers. This benefits both policymakers and citizens as it can empower citizens to make their voices heard and it can help policymakers to build perceived legitimacy among citizens that are dissatisfied with existing decision-making processes. Formal channels for citizen lobby often exist but remain underused. However, what happens when governments actively engage with citizen lobby? We conducted two survey experiments in the Netherlands (N = 1218) and showed that engagement with citizen lobby has no systematic effect on internal political efficacy but has robust positive effects on political support.
帮助公民游说自己。公民游说参与对内部效能和政治支持影响的实验证据
理想情况下,利益集团会在公民和政治之间形成联系。然而,这种联系在实践中往往存在缺陷。许多公民还认为,普通公民的声音没有被倾听,特殊利益集团对政策制定施加了不当影响。解决这个问题的一个建议是刺激所谓的公民游说:普通公民可以利用游说策略对决策者施加影响。这对政策制定者和公民都有利,因为它可以使公民能够发出自己的声音,并有助于政策制定者在对现有决策程序不满意的公民中建立公认的合法性。公民游说的正式渠道经常存在,但仍未得到充分利用。然而,当政府积极参与公民游说时,会发生什么呢?我们在荷兰进行了两次调查实验(N = 1218),结果表明参与公民游说对内部政治效能没有系统性影响,但对政治支持有很强的积极影响。
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期刊介绍: The primary aim of the Journal of European Public Policy is to provide a comprehensive and definitive source of analytical, theoretical and methodological articles in the field of European public policy. Focusing on the dynamics of public policy in Europe, the journal encourages a wide range of social science approaches, both qualitative and quantitative. JEPP defines European public policy widely and welcomes innovative ideas and approaches. The main areas covered by the Journal are as follows: •Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of public policy in Europe and elsewhere •National public policy developments and processes in Europe •Comparative studies of public policy within Europe
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