Marta Gallina a remporté le 2018 Party Politics Prize pour le meilleur papier presenté par un étudiant à l'ECPR Summer School on Political Parties. L'école d'été était organisée par Fernando Casal Bertoa et Cees van der Eijk de l'université de Nottingham.
Lors de l'école d'été Marta a présenté son papier 'Abilities, opportunities and motivations in comparative perspective: A study of the determinants of political sophistication' (voir plus bas pour un abstract en anglais). Bravo Marta!
Abstract
In this paper, I aim at advancing existing knowledge on political sophistication’s predictors. In so doing, I define sophistication as ‘opinion constraint’ and I propose a new measure based on regression’s residuals. First, I regress people’s opinion constraint on three individual characteristics, i.e. abilities, opportunities and motivations of being sophisticated. Then, I test whether the macro-political constraint has an impact on citizens’ constraint, net of other individual variables. Lastly, I investigate what individuals are more sensitive to contextual variations.
The analyses rely on data from the 2014 European Election Study. Results suggest that abilities and motivations have indeed a significant effect on sophistication and that constraint at the contextual level is actually able to strengthen people’s opinion constraint. Moreover, findings show that those who are exposed to political news and well educated are sensitive to the effect of the context.
Ce contenu a été mis à jour le 6 novembre 2018 à 6 h 29 min.
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