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The struggle within dual systems of government: dealing with conflict between traditional leaders and ward councilors in the greater Giyani Municipality in South Africa 双轨制政府内的斗争：处理南非大吉亚尼市传统领导人与选区议员之间的冲突

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1311178

Shadreck Muchaku, Grey Magaiza

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Climate change and the politicization of ESG in the US 气候变化与美国 ESG 的政治化

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1332399

Chris Hilson

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A mirror of political ideology: undergraduates’ attitudinal drivers on implemented campus carry 政治意识形态的一面镜子：大学生对实施校园携带武器的态度驱动因素

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1261072

Albion Butters, Elina Kestilä-Kekkonen, S. Ruoppila

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The impact of official development assistance on foreign direct investment: the case of Japanese firms in India 官方发展援助对外国直接投资的影响：日本公司在印度的案例

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1351285

Saori Ono, Takashi Sekiyama

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Representations of the Quebec nation through reactions to Bills 21 and 96: an analysis of editorials and Op-eds in English-language media 通过对《21 号法案》和《96 号法案》的反应表现魁北克民族：对英语媒体社论和专栏文章的分析

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1374740

Félix Mathieu, Alina Hart

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Digital manipulation and mass mobilization over the long run: evidence from Latin America 数字操纵与长期群众动员：拉丁美洲的证据

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1296004

José Ángel Alcántara-Lizárraga, Alexandra Jima-González

{"title":"Digital manipulation and mass mobilization over the long run: evidence from Latin America","authors":"José Ángel Alcántara-Lizárraga, Alexandra Jima-González","doi":"10.3389/fpos.2024.1296004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1296004","url":null,"abstract":"False information flows through social media are a worldwide phenomenon, affecting Latin America in particular, where more than 70% of internet users report growing concern regarding the circulation of fake news, especially through social media platforms. Although the academic literature has studied how governments may be incentivized to disseminate false information, it has concentrated in the electoral context mostly. In this sense, the impact of disinformation on mass mobilization patterns has been less explored, although it is relevant: manipulation through social media can reduce citizens' inclination to protest by directly influencing their preferences or beliefs about the government, acting as a preventive digital repression tool. In fact, governments have efficiently used it in the short run; however, it has not been established if this strategy could work in the long run. Hence, this article explores the long-term relationship between manipulation by the government through social media and the occurrence of mass mobilization to determine whether they are cointegrated. Drawing on the most recent literature on digital repression, manipulation, and mass mobilization and by applying a panel cointegration methodology in nine countries in Latin America (2000–2021), we find that the variables are cointegrated. In addition, we explore the causal (Granger) effect and find a unidirectional link that goes from social media manipulation to mass mobilization.","PeriodicalId":502753,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Political Science","volume":"16 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140248835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Editorial: Digital policies, rules and practice on political organisations and their digital ecosystem 社论：政治组织及其数字生态系统的数字政策、规则和实践

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-12 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1360136

Felix-Christopher von Nostitz, I. Borucki, Oscar Barberà

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Political trust in the age of coronavirus: experiences in Mukuru, Nairobi, Kenya 冠状病毒时代的政治信任：肯尼亚内罗毕穆库鲁的经验

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1331229

Ruth N Murumba, Angela R. Pashayan

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Capture and corporate cooptation: the role of the Mexican Foundation for Health in public health policy 俘获和企业合作：墨西哥卫生基金会在公共卫生政策中的作用

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.958854

Christian Torres, Alejandro Calvillo, Javier Zúñiga

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The recession generation? Age-period-cohort dynamics of political trust in six countries severely affected by the 2008 crisis 衰退的一代？受 2008 年危机严重影响的六个国家中政治信任的年龄段-组群动态变化

Frontiers in Political Science Pub Date : 2024-02-29 DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2024.1245666

V. Valgarðsson

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