Improving the political judgement of citizens: why the task environment matters

IF 4.3 2区 管理学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Benjamin Leruth, G. Stoker
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Abstract

Internal political efficacy (that is, beliefs about one’s ability to process and participate effectively in politics) is known to be shaped by factors such as levels of interest in politics, trust in institutions and awareness of political developments and debates. In this article, we show that the task environment also has an impact on internal political efficacy, and that little research has been done on this issue. We draw on data from focus groups in Australia, where citizens were asked to make political judgements in contrasting task environments: state elections and the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite. We examine four features of task environments: framing choice; issue content; the nature of available cues; and whether the task environment stimulates cognitive effort. We conclude that concerns about the internal political efficacy of voters should be addressed by exploring how the task environment created for political choice might be made more amenable in order to improve the political judgement of citizens.
提高公民的政治判断力:为什么任务环境很重要
众所周知,内部政治效能(即对一个人有效处理和参与政治的能力的信念)受到诸如对政治的兴趣水平、对机构的信任以及对政治发展和辩论的认识等因素的影响。在本文中,我们表明任务环境也会对内部政治效能产生影响,而这一问题的研究很少。我们利用了澳大利亚焦点小组的数据,在那里,公民被要求在不同的任务环境下做出政治判断:州选举和2017年同性婚姻公投。我们研究了任务环境的四个特征:框架选择;问题内容;可用线索的性质;以及任务环境是否会刺激认知努力。我们的结论是,应该通过探索如何使为政治选择创造的任务环境更易于接受,以提高公民的政治判断,来解决对选民内部政治效能的关注。
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