Information-processing by individual political actors. The determinants of exposure, attention and action.

The project investigates the way individual political actors process information about real-world problems, about solutions to those problems and about associated preferences in the public. Theoretically, the project investigates which properties of the informative signal, of the sender of the information or of the receiver affects to what extent political actors are exposed to the information, attend to the information and act upon the information. Empirically the project draws on a broad array of methods applied to a sample of elite actors in Belgium.

Keywords:EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH, POLITICAL ELITES, REPRESENTATIONS, INFORMATION PROCESSING

Disciplines:Other economics and business, Citizenship, immigration and political inequality, International and comparative politics, Multilevel governance, National politics, Political behaviour, Political organisations and institutions, Political theory and methodology, Public administration, Other political science, Communication sciences, Journalism and professional writing, Media studies, Other media and communications