Context or Conflict Types: Which Determines the Selection of Communication ModeActa Politica - Tập 40 - Trang 239-254 - 2005
Katharina Holzinger
The article is concerned with the question whether it is context or conflict type that determines the selection of arguing or bargaining. A speech act analysis of two German cases of communicative resolution of conflict, a mediation on a waste management conflict and a parliamentary debate on embryonic stem cells, shows that conflict type is an important factor for the selection of the mode of com...... hiện toàn bộ
Intra-party democracy from members’ viewpoint: the case of left-wing parties in PortugalActa Politica - Tập 53 - Trang 391-408 - 2017
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches, Marco Lisi, Isabella Razzuoli, Paula do Espírito Santo
Focusing on the Portuguese case, this article aims to examine how members evaluate items of intra-party democracy and the ways in which their evaluations vary significantly across parties and key individual-level factors. It uses data from online surveys conducted in 2014 to grassroots members of three left-wing parties that differ in their organisational and participative profiles: the centre-lef...... hiện toàn bộ
Vote overreporting in national election surveys: a 55-nation exploratory studyActa Politica - Tập 57 - Trang 529-547 - 2021
Ian McAllister, Stephen Quinlan
Election turnout is central to the health of a democracy, yet measuring it accurately in national election surveys presents major problems. Surveys show that respondents consistently overreport their turnout, usually by between 10 and 20 percentage points. To date, most research has been conducted on the United States, and what little comparative research exists has typically covered a small numbe...... hiện toàn bộ
Online Forums and Deliberative DemocracyActa Politica - Tập 40 - Trang 317-335 - 2005
Davy Janssen, Raphaël Kies
The Internet is rapidly becoming a part of the everyday lives of a majority of people in the Western world. People perform various activities on the Internet and one of them is discussing politics and society in so-called online forums. In this article, we present an overview of some of the empirical research that evaluates the quality of political conversations in online forums. In the first sect...... hiện toàn bộ
Discarding protests? Relating crisis experience to approval of protests among activists and bystandersActa Politica - Tập 54 - Trang 430-457 - 2017
Camilo Cristancho, Katrin Uba, Lorenzo Zamponi
To what extent does the economic crisis affect support for political protest? Since the outburst of the financial crisis in 2008 many protests have been mobilized against national governments and their austerity policies. In some countries, these actions were described in the media as having little support among the general public, while elsewhere these actions enjoyed significant public support. ...... hiện toàn bộ
Blame it on my youth: the origins of attitudes towards immigrationActa Politica - - Trang 1-30 - 2023
Anne-Marie Jeannet, Lenka Dražanová
Recent studies have demonstrated generational differences in attitudes towards immigration, however, less is known about what are the exact factors behind these differences. Our study investigates why cohorts formulate distinct patterns in attitudes towards immigration through a collective process of political socialization during their formative years. The theoretical arguments are tested using h...... hiện toàn bộ
“Le Grand absent Européen”: solidarity in the politics of European integrationActa Politica - Tập 56 - Trang 242-260 - 2020
Andreas Grimmel
The appeal for more solidarity is a recurring pattern in political discussions of how to cope with the crises the European Union (EU) confronts. This became most palpable in two major challenges—the Eurozone crisis and the refugee and migrant crisis. However, there is a yawning gap between the rhetorical commitment to solidarity and member states’ practices of solidarity: Even though the EU and it...... hiện toàn bộ