Political efficacy, or a sense of confidence that “people like me” can understand politics and receive responsiveness from government, is central to the study political behavior. However, reference group respondents view as not always immediately clear. This limits our ability infer how efficacy informs participation. We propose specific concept operationalization racial we distinguish this ide...

Women are significantly less politically engaged than men at both the mass and elite levels. More recent scholarship has found that structural factors standard predictors of political behavior no longer sufficiently explain this persistent gap in engagement. In present study, I take a novel approach to exploring discrepancy women’s engagement participation. ask: Does self-objectification, inter...

This paper asks whether political participation confers psychological benefits. Four hypotheses were tested: that involvement in volunteer activities reduces subsequent psychological distress, that resisting perceived discrimination does, that the benefits of political involvement are more pronounced for respondents prone to psychological distress, and that any observed benefits of political in...

Debates about the efficacy of private environmental regimes have been fueled by disparate research findings, such as when the same regime that has been effective in one setting is found to be ineffective in another. In this article, we show that the efficacy of ISO 14001, the most widely adopted voluntary environmental regime in the world, is conditioned by the stringency of countries’ domestic...

Abstract Values are often used to explain phenomena associated with problematic political behaviours. For example, the election of far-right parties is attributed traditional values. The ‘Cultural Backlash’ thesis (Inglehart and Norris in Cultural backlash: trump, Brexit, authoritarian populism. Cambridge University Press, 2017a) prominent this field research explains such behaviour by a predom...

Purpose: The objective of this study was to explore netizens' external and internal political efficacy as being exposed branding on social media show how would level up the citizens’ awareness boost their participation in voting parliamentary election. Lebanon taken a case study. Theoretical framework: Recent literature has reported impact youth while other studies have been done separately abo...

Collective action will be effective in achieving broader social change goals to the extent that it influences public opinion yet the degree to which collective action "works" in changing opinion is rarely studied. Experiment 1 (n = 158) showed that, consistent with a logic of strategic non-violence, non-violent collective action more effectively conveys a sense of the illegitimacy of the issue ...