Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00300-y
Samira Azabar, Peter van Aelst
{"title":"Religion works in different ways: an intersectional approach to Muslims’ noninstitutionalized participation","authors":"Samira Azabar, Peter van Aelst","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00300-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00300-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49094409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00292-9
Timothy Peace, F. Paxton
{"title":"Populist pragmatism: the nationalisation of local government strategies by the Rassemblement National","authors":"Timothy Peace, F. Paxton","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00292-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00292-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49561582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-04-15DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00295-6
Wouter Veenendaal
{"title":"Governing inter-municipal partnerships in the Netherlands: a democratic deficit","authors":"Wouter Veenendaal","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00295-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00295-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41499758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00297-4
Cato Waeterloos, Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet
{"title":"Social media as an exit strategy? The role of attitudes of discontent in explaining non-electoral political participation among Belgian young adults.","authors":"Cato Waeterloos, Michel Walrave, Koen Ponnet","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00297-4","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41269-023-00297-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Feelings of dissatisfaction with the political status quo are believed to mobilize citizens into non-institutional political action, such as protest. Still, little is known about whether and how political participation through social media provide an alternative voicing route for discontented citizens. Guided by grievance theory, this article assesses how both electoral exit behaviour (e.g., abstaining) and attitudes of political discontent (political and media trust, political hopelessness and populism) are associated with three modes of non-electoral political participation: institutional, protest and social media participation. An online survey was administered to 720 young adults between 18 and 30 years old in Belgium. A hierarchical regression analysis showed no association between electoral exit and non-institutional participation. Furthermore, attitudes of discontent were found to not uniformly push young citizens away from institutional politics. Our results show that social media provide an important, additional political outlet for young citizens and lend support to the notion of political participation as complementary acts, rather than exclusive ones.</p>","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10088628/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43811852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-04-10DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00298-3
Nick Martin
{"title":"Correction: Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium’s socialist parties in connecting to civil society","authors":"Nick Martin","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00298-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00298-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135544270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-04-06DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00296-5
V. Barsegyan, Antonie Knigge, I. Maas
{"title":"Social origin and political participation: does education compensate for or reinforce family advantages and disadvantages?","authors":"V. Barsegyan, Antonie Knigge, I. Maas","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00296-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00296-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42423373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00290-x
Rodrigo M. Medel
{"title":"When do active citizens abstain from the polls? Civic associations, non-electoral participation, and voting in 21st-century democracies","authors":"Rodrigo M. Medel","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00290-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00290-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41899131","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00294-7
Sergiu Gherghina, S. Soare, V. Jacquet
{"title":"Political parties and deliberation: from challenges to opportunities","authors":"Sergiu Gherghina, S. Soare, V. Jacquet","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00294-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/s41269-023-00294-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"487 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41335306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta PoliticaPub Date : 2023-03-14DOI: 10.1057/s41269-023-00293-8
Nick Martin
{"title":"Remaining close or drifting apart? Explaining the divergent paths taken by Belgium's socialist parties in connecting to civil society.","authors":"Nick Martin","doi":"10.1057/s41269-023-00293-8","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41269-023-00293-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>What explains why parties with shared origins, ideology, and government experience take divergent paths in connecting to civil society? I seek to answer this question with a comparative case study of two socialist parties in Belgium-the <i>Parti Socialiste</i> (PS) and the <i>Socialistische Partij Anders</i> (SP.a). I show that far-reaching change in the form of new party competition, the mobilization of new discourses and the fracturing of longstanding policy consensus presented the parties with new challenges. Party elites' perceptions of the implications of these challenges for party competition, led the two parties to respond to these challenges in very different ways. While the PS retained a socialist vision and proximity to civil allies, the SP.a withdrew from institutions and communities that had connected them to civil society. The study contributes to the literature on relationships between parties and civil society showing how the perspectives of party elites shape key decisions in response to far-reaching change in political contexts, and adds to our understanding of why similar parties exhibit different patterns of connection to civil society organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"48 4","pages":"1-31"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10013268/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41295576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}