Cascades or salmons? Longitudinal upstream and downstream effects of political participation
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Cascades or salmons? Longitudinal upstream and downstream effects of political participation. / Ohme, Jakob; Azrout, Rachid; Marquart, Franziska; Möller, Judith.
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T1 - Cascades or salmons? Longitudinal upstream and downstream effects of political participation
AU - Ohme, Jakob
AU - Azrout, Rachid
AU - Marquart, Franziska
AU - Möller, Judith
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Digitally networked and new, unconventional activities allow citizens to participate politically in activities that are low in the effort and risks they bear. At the same time, low-effort types of participation are more loosely connected to democratic political systems, thereby challenging established modes of political decision-making. This can set in motion two competing dynamics: While some citizens move closer to the political system in their activities (upstream effects), others engage in political activities more distant from it (downstream effects). This study investigates non-electoral participation trajectories and tests intra-individual change in political participation types over time, exploring whether such dynamics depend on citizens’ exposure to political information. Utilizing a three-wave panel survey (n = 3490) and random intercept cross-lagged panel models with SEM, we find more evidence for downstream effects but detect overall diverse participation trajectories over time and a potentially crucial role of elections for non-electoral participation trajectories.
AB - Digitally networked and new, unconventional activities allow citizens to participate politically in activities that are low in the effort and risks they bear. At the same time, low-effort types of participation are more loosely connected to democratic political systems, thereby challenging established modes of political decision-making. This can set in motion two competing dynamics: While some citizens move closer to the political system in their activities (upstream effects), others engage in political activities more distant from it (downstream effects). This study investigates non-electoral participation trajectories and tests intra-individual change in political participation types over time, exploring whether such dynamics depend on citizens’ exposure to political information. Utilizing a three-wave panel survey (n = 3490) and random intercept cross-lagged panel models with SEM, we find more evidence for downstream effects but detect overall diverse participation trajectories over time and a potentially crucial role of elections for non-electoral participation trajectories.
KW - Downstream effects
KW - Elections
KW - Longitudinal analysis
KW - Political participation
KW - Structural equation modeling
KW - Upstream effects
U2 - 10.1057/s41269-023-00325-3
DO - 10.1057/s41269-023-00325-3
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85185117840
JO - Acta Politica
JF - Acta Politica
SN - 0001-6810
ER -
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