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Despite the relevance of the gender dimension of immigration, political engagement of migrant women has rarely been the focus of scholarly research. This article tries to fill this gap. Using ... out by the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) in 2011-2012, we analysed the factors that at an individual level spur or inhibit migrants' political engagement in Italy in terms of gender
changed over time, and (c) how these topics differ across political parties. To do so, we use a Structural Topic Model, which allows us to not only find the topics using the textual data itself, but also to ... to the various political parties as we would expect. Throughout our analysis, we provide a step-by-step overview of how to use structural topic models in practice and also how to handle the type of
anthropology, science studies, and the philosophy of science, we are in line with approaches that reaffirm ethical issues from standpoint theory in the current scientific debate about trust in science. The ... field of evolutionary anthropology, science studies, philosophy of science on the issue of situatedness, ethics, and interdependence with the environment (Barad 2007; Geismar and Knox 2021; Haraway 2016
In recent time, Turkey could be said to have experienced different levels of Economic Risk, Financial Risk, and Political Risk from low- to high-level. This study investigates the linkage between ... empirical findings of this study reveal that (i) nonlinear cointegration between Economic Risk, Financial Risk, and Political Risk in Turkey is statistically significant given the evidence of threshold
’ engagement and answer behavior. We conducted a smartphone survey in a German online access panel and asked respondents four open-ended questions on political parties with requests for voice answers. In ... education level). In this study, we predicted respondents’ level of interest based on their voice answers to four open-ended questions concerning the evaluation of the following German political parties: CDU
Based on previous research on political trust on the one hand and the effects of perceived survey sponsors on political attitudes on the other, this paper sets out to explore the effects of
Prados. Its perspective is a classical political philosophy. Thanks to this approach the author seems not to be entangled in modern philosophical terminology and its significance. It allows his criticisms ... foundation of the classical political philosophy. For this author this project does not concern only the human rights doctrine, but it is a wider vision of the political philosophy renewal. Key words: Alfredo
analyze the importance of mixed methods in political science and especially in governance and public policy research by focusing on specific examples of related research and outcomes. The main reason is to ... long as there is a vast number of interrelated parameters with the social, political and economic context. The qualitative research can be based on the grounded theory, as it constitutes a set of data
characterized by specific combinations of relational events. These methods are used exemplarily to analyze a televised political debate between six party representatives in Germany. Three prominent types of ... a televised political debate. The approach builds on a long-standing tradition of determining network ties on the basis of communicative events sent from one actor to another (like letters or e
This experimental study aims to check and improve the quality of 16 established survey measures of political solidarities and related concepts, such as redistribution and social trust. Political
In the digital age, political science is faced with a shift of election campaigns and political discourse to digital or virtual arenas. Because the internet is a highly volatile medium and online ... the benefits that researches in political science may draw from adapting our methodology. We demonstrate this by analysing an event-based web crawl of German parties participating in the election
political system. It introduces a causal mechanism that links political losing to political trust via evaluations of electoral fairness: citizens who voted for the losing camp are more likely to view the ... view the electoral process as unfair than citizens who voted for the winning camp, resulting in political distrust. It further suggests that the effects of political losing on political trust depend on
memory effects may have been overestimated in previous studies. The measurement of political concepts, such as political efficacy, is a key task in social science research and many adjacent research fields ... , as it allows researchers to draw conclusions about peoples' political attitudes and voting intentions. However, researchers are often not only interested in measuring such political concepts at one
conceptual trajectory of polity studies, the theories as well as methodologies have increasingly emphasized focus on individuals, (political) cultures, power, and relationships both between individuals and ... , the study of these types of relationships have revealed the complexity of the state, and the dynamics of its change. Though economy and political economy theories of the twentieth century gradually
Conducting quantitative research (e.g., surveys, a large number of interviews, experiments) with the participation of political elites is typically challenging. Given that a population of political ... best practices for soliciting the participation of political elites? To arrive at these best practices, we (a) examine which factors explain the variation in response rates across surveys within and
, as a result, drawing unsound conclusions. As a case in point, I take a recent analysis of political attitudes in the UK using MCA that drew bold inferences about the relationship with social class and ... case I will make in this paper, taking as my example a recent study of the space of political attitudes and its relationship with social class (Ibrahim and Lindell, 2020) . I reanalyse the same data
results indicate that moral rhetoric have significant explanatory power in modelling voting behaviour. We interpret the results in the light of political science literature and propose ways for future ... judgement. This is not necessarily true for language use. In a political context, interestingly, it was found that although conservatives adhere to loyalty more than liberals, loyalty appears more in liberals
Misinformation and biased opinion-formation plague contemporary politics. Fact-checking, the process of verifying accuracy of political claims, is now an expanding reseach area, but the methodology ... Research Institute, Åbo Akademi University , Fänriksgatan 3 ASA A4, 20500 Åbo Finland , Finland 1 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Turku , Turku , Finland 2 Department of Philosophy
Much research intro political trust—its causes, correlates and trends—builds on the twin assumptions that trust in a wide range of political institutions is ultimately an expression of (1) a singular
