Traveling Political Knowledge

How Internal Political Efficacy Translates Political Knowledge Into Political Participation

This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...

Knowledge and Political Categorization

A nationally representative sample of US adults completed two political categorization tasks. The first was to identify the political parties for hypothetical candidates with information given about demographics and stands on issues. The second task was to decide whether to vote for each candidate. On the identification task, judgments about whether a person is a Democrat were almost a perfect ...

Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

As described at the beginning of Section 3.2, there are two factors that determine a politician’s success in retainining political power – the size of bureaucrats’ public good output under his control, as well as overall public good efficiency. Denoting the weight he assigns to these two factors by the parameters λ and (1 − λ) respectively, the politician seeks to maximize Z = λΣ b nbsbyb +(1−λ...

Knowledge and the Political: Bruno Latour's Political Epistemology

Social Media and Politics: Examining Indonesians’ Political Knowledge on Facebook

The Internet and social media have played a significant role in contemporarypolitical sphere of Indonesia. In particular, they have been widely usedfor political activism and discussion; but whether the discussions areconstructive is another issue. Constructive political discussion requiresseveral preconditions; one of the most important requirements is rationalreasoning. Citizens must be equip...