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Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment: institutional design and limited political interference. 参与式预算编制和集体赋权观念：体制设计和有限的政治干预

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-12-02 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00273-4

Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap, Sorina Soare

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The delusive economy: how information and affect colour perceptions of national economic performance. 虚假经济:信息如何影响国民经济表现的色彩感知

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-09-27 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00258-3

Lukas Linsi, Daniel Mügge, Ana Carillo-López

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Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels. 通过审议破解代议制?布鲁塞尔集会党组织

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2021-11-29 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-021-00226-3

Nino Junius, Didier Caluwaerts, Joke Matthieu, Silvia Erzeel

{"title":"Hacking the representative system through deliberation? The organization of the Agora party in Brussels.","authors":"Nino Junius, Didier Caluwaerts, Joke Matthieu, Silvia Erzeel","doi":"10.1057/s41269-021-00226-3","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41269-021-00226-3","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed the emergence of a variety of deliberative practices in the organization and activities of political parties. What remains unclear, however, is how parties can promote deliberative democracy in an environment that remains predominantly representative. To investigate this tension, we study the Agora party in Brussels. Agora competed for the first time in the 2019 regional elections in Brussels with the aim of institutionalizing a permanent, randomly selected Citizen's Assembly with legislative power in the Brussels Capital Region and immediately gained a seat in the Brussels Regional Parliament. Based on an in-depth qualitative study including 20 semi-structured interviews with a broad range of party members and document analysis, we study whether and how Agora's organizational structure, i.e. its leadership and centralization, its intra-party democracy, and its organizational resources, allow it to promote deliberative democracy in a representative context. We argue that Agora experiences tensions between its deliberative ideals and its representative means and that there is a looming danger of becoming \"just another part\" of the system. However, it succeeds in simultaneously rejecting and competing in the representative system by adopting a stratarchical party organization.Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41269-021-00226-3.","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"512-530"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628275/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42746118","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}

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Racialisation and counter-radicalisation: a study of Dutch policy frameworks. 种族主义和反激进化：荷兰政策框架研究

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-08-16 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00256-5

Sanne Groothuis

{"title":"Racialisation and counter-radicalisation: a study of Dutch policy frameworks.","authors":"Sanne Groothuis","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00256-5","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41269-022-00256-5","url":null,"abstract":"Counter-radicalisation measures have been criticised for stigmatising Muslim communities. However, little research exists on racialisation in policy frameworks found in counter-radicalisation policy documents themselves. Analysis of these documents can reveal whether and how racialising patterns emerge in bureaucracy at the national level, because policy documents circulate and institutionalise regulatory, administrative power. This paper presents a study of counter-radicalisation policy documents developed by the Dutch government, a pioneer in counter-radicalisation policy. A computer-assisted qualitative content analysis of policy documents was conducted and then contextualised using interviews with policy makers and executives. The policy documents were found to securitise Muslims, constructing them as potentially risky/at risk and as 'Other' communities. Using a theoretical framework that takes racialisation to be a particular essentialised construction of group membership, the analysis presents a nuanced answer to the question if counter-radicalisation policy frameworks racialise Muslims. There is evidence for racialisation, as well as for conscious efforts to prevent this effect. Insights from this study support appeals to reconsider the national security policy framework that expects Muslims to take responsibility for preventing radicalisation and terrorism.","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"614-633"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9380662/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45223502","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}

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The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland. 投票建议应用在直接民主意见形成中的作用：来自瑞士的一项实验

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-10-26 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00264-5

Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Hannah Rajski, Sophie Ruprecht

{"title":"The role of vote advice application in direct-democratic opinion formation: an experiment from Switzerland.","authors":"Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen, Hannah Rajski, Sophie Ruprecht","doi":"10.1057/s41269-022-00264-5","DOIUrl":"10.1057/s41269-022-00264-5","url":null,"abstract":"In an increasingly digitized world, vote advice applications (VAAs) seem to be effective in providing voters with personalized information about their own positions vis-à-vis parties' positions and specific policies. Even though electoral research has increasingly paid attention to the role VAAs play in voter's opinion formation, very few studies have examined VAAs in the context of direct-democratic decisions. This article fills this gap by providing new insights into how VAAs affect individual decision-making in popular votes theoretically and empirically. We use novel data from the referendum campaign on the 2017 new energy law in Switzerland: a VAA experiment carried out in the framework of a three-wave panel survey. In the third wave, which took place a week before the referendum, respondents were randomly assigned to a treatment group and a control group; only the former was shown the VAA and made to use it. The results indicate two main takeaways. First, that using a VAA has a tangible effect inasmuch as the share of undecided voters is smaller among the treatment than among the control group. Second, VAA usage can have both a persuasive effect (i.e., it can change vote intentions) and an intensifying effect (i.e., it can strengthen voters' preexisting intentions).Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1057/s41269-022-00264-5.","PeriodicalId":47211,"journal":{"name":"Acta Politica","volume":"58 1","pages":"792-818"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11138372/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45643063","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}

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How political orientation, economic precarity, and participant demographics impact compliance with COVID-19 prevention measures in a Dutch representative sample. 在荷兰代表样本中，政治倾向、经济不稳定和参与者人口统计如何影响对新冠肺炎预防措施的遵守

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00246-7

Elena Martinescu, Terence D Dores Cruz, Tom W Etienne, André Krouwel

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A wave of support? A natural experiment on how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the popularity of a basic income. 一波支持?关于COVID-19大流行如何影响基本收入普及的自然实验

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2023-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-10-05 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00260-9

Arno Van Hootegem, Tijs Laenen

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When do parties reform? Causes of programmatic-, organizational- and personnel party reforms in the Belgian mainstream parties 政党什么时候进行改革？比利时主流政党方案、组织和人事改革的原因

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2022-12-26 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00280-5

Jasmien Luypaert, Thomas Legein

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Living up to expectations? EU politicization and party Europeanization in Flanders and the Netherlands. 不辜负期望?法兰德斯与荷兰的欧盟政治化与政党欧洲化

IF 1.4 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2022-12-21 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00281-4

Gilles Pittoors, Niels Gheyle

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Solidarity frames: the missing link between parties and voters? 团结框架:政党与选民之间缺失的一环?

IF 1.2 3区社会学

Acta Politica Pub Date : 2022-12-20 DOI: 10.1057/s41269-022-00277-0

P. Verheyen, P. Thijssen

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