Question Wording & Indices for the CCES data: p. 2 Question Wording & Indices for the KN data: p. 4 Figure R1: Specification of the Three-Factor (SEM) Measurement Model: p. 6 Figure R2: Range of MOC Treatment x Stealth Interaction: p. 7 Table R1: Predicting Two Types of Political Participation (CCES): p. 8 Table R2: Predicting Two Types of Political Participation (KN): p. 9 Table R3: Participat...

The "gap" between knowledge and political action has long been a topic of discussion for social scientists. Depending upon the theoretical perspective adopted, it has been associated with a conflict of norms and values between scientific and political institutions, with different organizational forms underlying bureaucratic and professional patterns of activity, or with the difference between "...

is paper uses a formal electoral model as the basis for discussion of various political episodes in British and US history and to evaluate the logic of Madison’s argument about the republican scheme of government. is leads to the inference that political choice involves electoral judgment as well as preference. e stochastic electoral model is extended to incorporate the basis of judgment, namel...

An electronic communication system, especially if it is designed to accommodate open access via public terminals can allow information-disadvantaged groups (such as the homeless, and women) to exchange relevant information and engage in political action. The Public Electronic Network (PEN), a free computer-based messaging system available to Santa Monica, CA residents, allowed homeless and “hom...

THE CURRENT DEBATE on the political culture of the Roman republic began almost twenty years ago and has lost little of its momentum since. For the first time in decades, the focus was not on the countless individual issues but on the really basic questions. The status, identity, functions, and interactions of citizen body and popular assemblies, of Senate and magistrates were problematized and ...

BACKGROUND In this paper we review the relationship between participation in legislative hearings, the use of ideological arguments, and the strength of public health legislation using a theoretical construct proposed by E. E. Schattschneider in 1960. Schattschneider argued that the breadth and types of participation in a political discussion could change political outcomes. METHODS We test S...

Due to the legacy of apartheid segregation South Africa remains a divided society where most voters live in politically homogenous social environments. This paper argues that political discussion within one’s social context plays a primary role in shaping political attitudes and vote choice. Using data from the Comparative National Elections Project 2004 and 2009 South African post-election sur...

Implementing an ERP project is a political process. This paper starts with a literature review of organizational politics and its implications to the implementation of ERP systems. The Political Strategies Framework which categorizes different ePolitics strategies in the cases is introduced. The framework is applied in the later sections of the paper to case study data from two companies, one i...

On a large number of dimensions, the domestic political economy of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the US was peculiar. In some ways the most surprising aspect of the politics of NAFTA relates to the apparent footlooseness of aggregate opinion. That is, since standard theories of political economy assume that policy preferences are determined by material conditions, those the...

The 2004 presidential election led to considerable discussion about whether moral values motivated people to vote, and if so, whether it led to a conservative electoral advantage. The results of two studies—one conducted in the context of the 2000 presidential election, the other in the context of the 2004 presidential election—indicated that stronger moral convictions associated with candidate...