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Explaining beliefs in electoral misinformation in the 2022 Brazilian election: The role of ideology, political trust, social media, and messaging apps Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The 2022 elections in Brazil have demonstrated that disinformation can have violent consequences, particularly when it comes from the top, raising concerns around democratic backsliding. This study leverages a two-wave survey to investigate individual-level predictors of holding electoral misinformation beliefs and the role of trust and information habits during the 2022 Brazilian elections. Our findings demonstrate that susceptibility to ...
From out-group to in-group? A comparative analysis of gender differences in political attitudes towards social media adoption and activity Ghent University
The effect of direct democracy on the social stratification of political participation : inequality in democratic fatigue? Ghent University KU Leuven
Political Attitudes and Political Participation: A Panel Study on Socialization and Self-Selection Effects among Late Adolescents KU Leuven
The expectation that participation entails socialization effects on political attitudes is not routinely tested in a longitudinal manner. In this article, we report on a two-year panel study among 4,325 late adolescents in Belgium. By means of a cross-lagged structural equation model, it was ascertained that the relation between participation and attitudes is reciprocal. The relation between participation (at Time1) and attitudes (at Time2) was ...
'Governance', a new political condition? A conceptual analysis of political regimes in terms of representation and (de)politicization KU Leuven
Today we are witnessing a gradual shift towards governance decision-making. rsquo; is seen as an answer to the complexities of contemporary politics. Private actors now cooperate with public actors in network-structures with the aim of creating effective outcomes by way of steering and regulating (instead of executing plain decision-making) through standard and norm setting (soft law instead of hard law). The term governance itself is immensely ...
Searching for a democratic equalizer: Citizenship education's moderating effect on the relationship between a political home and internal political efficacy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Internal political efficacy (IPE) is an important yet unequally distributed driver of political action. Following cultural sociological explanations for political disengagement, we study how students' political home environment reproduces inequalities in IPE and how citizenship education moderates this. We test whether citizenship education compensates, reproduces, or accelerates inequalities in IPE due to differences in one's political home ...
The Effect of Political Science Education on Political Trust and Interest: Results from a Five Year Panel Study KU Leuven
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Citizenship education has evolved substantially in recent decades, with a rapid proliferation of education forms and approaches. The currently available evaluation studies, however, do not allow us to determine what kind of approach can be considered as a best practice for schools and education systems. In this article, we rely on the results of a 5-year panel study to investigate the long-term effects ...