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Digital Parties
This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world. The authors present an innovative empirical exploration of the democratic consequences and technical challenges of the digitalization of party organizations from a comparative perspective. They provide an original account of how party digital platforms are regulated and used, and a crucial discussion of the main technological and democratic issues that political parties face in their digital transition. Further, the authors assess the consequences of these digitalization processes for political participation and party member...
Crowdsourced Politics
This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation. In doing do, the book argues that crowdsourced participation has become normalised and institutionalised into the everyday repertoires of citizens and their organisations. Within the digitally-enabled shift in individual acts of participation, creating, signing and sharing online petitions and micro-donations have become a focal point because of the clear evolution from their offline and online counterparts. To illustrate their arguments the authors use an original nationally representative survey on acts of politica...
Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes
This book examines citizens' attitudes towards the political system in which they live. Its focus is the comparison of such attitudes between citizens living in democracies and citizens living in autocracies.
The Independent Variable Problem
This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some important problems. These problems essentially relate to one point: while there are a large number of contributions dealing with the measurement of differences between welfare states per se and as a dependent variable, there is a lack of feasible recommendations for a standardised operationalisation of welfare...
Electronic Voting in Government Elections to Promote Democracy
The manual process used in elections is weakened by human interference; it causes irregularities in the polls and delays vote counts. This book explores the benefits of replacing it with the electronic system, which has improved the quality of elections in many countries. The book has grouped democratic countries into two categories: mature democracies and new democracies. Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK, and the USA represent the first group, and Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the Philippines represent the second group. The first group overcomes malpractice in elections through long exercises, when they could be using technology for accurate and swift delivery of poll results. For instance, the US can overcome controversial elections by empowering the Federal Election Commission to establish a uniform system. Colonial and dictatorial legacies instigated citizens' undemocratic behavior in new democracies. Electronic voting has fixed malpractices in their elections in a shorter period. Therefore, this book argues that electronic voting should be implemented in both mature and new democracies.
Die Parteiidentifikation
Sabrina Jasmin Mayer geht in ihrem Buch der Frage nach, wie die Parteiidentifikation theorieadäquat gemessen werden kann. Nach einer Konzeptualisierung der Parteiidentifikation im Ansatz der sozialen Identität werden Messinstrumente aus der sozialpsychologischen Forschung zur Operationalisierung von positiven, negativen und mehrfachen Parteibindungen adaptiert. Mit den Daten zweier umfangreicher Studien erfolgt die Konstruktvalidierung der neuen Messinstrumente. Sie zeigt, dass es hohe Anteile multipler und negativer Bindungen im Elektorat gibt, die mit den Standardmaßen nicht erfasst werden können.
Strukturgleichungsmodelle
Strukturgleichungsmodelle haben sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem Standardverfahren der Sozialforschung entwickelt. Bislang fehlt es aber an einer anwendungsorientierten Einführung für Politikwissenschaftler. Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt grundlegende Modelle zur Messung politikwissenschaftlicher Konstrukte (z.B. Fremdenfeindlichkeit), zur Schätzung von Messfehlern und zur Modellierung von Beziehungen zwischen latenten Variablen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf der Illustration durch politikwissenschaftliche Beispiele, die durch Hinweise zur Umsetzung der Verfahren in Standardprogrammen (LISREL, Stata, MPlus) ergänzt werden.
Identität - Identifikation - Ideologie
Identität, Identifikation und Ideologie sind auch im 21. Jahrhundert zentrale Begriffe in der Politik und hilfreich bei der Identifizierung und Erklärung aktueller politischer Probleme. Der Band zeigt die große Bedeutung der Theorie sozialer Identität für Fragen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung. Er belegt mit der Betrachtung der Parteiidentifikation aus verschiedenen Perspektiven das umfangreiche Potenzial für Analysen zu klassischen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung und zeigt die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten quantitativer und qualitativer Methoden auf.
Politik in der digitalen Gesellschaft
Die Bedeutung der Digitalisierung für Politik und Gesellschaft ist ein hoch aktuelles Themenfeld, das immer stärker auch politikwissenschaftlich beforscht und gelehrt wird. Die Beiträge des Bandes versammeln dazu programmatische Positionen, welche zentrale Aspekte und Perspektiven der sozialwissenschaftlichen Digitalisierungsforschung darstellen und diskutieren. Hierzu zählen u.a. Forschungsfelder aus den Bereichen Partizipations- und Parteienforschung, Governance der Digitalisierung, methodische Reflexionen über Computational Social Science und die Analyse von Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit unter den Bedingungen der Digitalisierung.
China & ANU
The Pacific War and its aftermath radically transformed Australian perceptions of what was then called the ‘Near North’. Many recognised that in the postwar world Australia’s strategic interests and economic fortunes called for a new understanding of Asia and the Pacific. China loomed large in these calculations. Based on extensive research and featuring rare archival documents and photographs, China & ANU introduces the diplomats, adventurers and scholars who contributed to Australia’s engagement with China, the ‘Chinese Commonwealth’ and our region from the 1940s-1950s. In particular, this book focusses on the interconnection between Australia’s first diplomat-scholars in China and the founding of Chinese Studies at the newly established Australian National University.
