Édito Dubois, Michel; Dubuisson-Quellier, Sophie
Revue française de sociologie,
6/2022, Volume:
62, Issue:
3
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Elle se présente au public, dans la notice du journal Le Monde annonçant sa creation, comme «le moyen d'expression dont avait besoin une equipe de chercheurs que leurs preoccupations communes ne ...détoument pas de poursuivre un effort personnel» (Le Monde, 22 février 1960). Elle n'est plus depuis longtemps le « moyen d'expression » d'un centre ou d'un laboratoire, mais un instrument au service de ceux et celles qui, en France comme å ľétranger, se donnent comme objectif de faire progresser l'état de nos connaissances scientifiques sur le monde social. C'est ainsi que places en face de la situation du second tour, 84 % des électeurs de Tixier-Vignancour alors dirigeant du Rassemblement National exprimerent leur intention de voter pour Mitterrand le 19 decembre. » Celui-ci, pour faire face â une extension continue de sa tâche, s'est renforcé par ľadjonction de nouveaux membres et la nomination de deux rédacteurs en chef.
Mexico's democracy has changed much over the past 20 years. But voters still have to wait up to a week for official results to be announced. Fortunately, statisticians came up with a solution to this ...problem: the conteo rápido. Manuel Mendoza explains what it is and how it works
Mexico's democracy has changed much over the past 20 years. But voters still have to wait up to a week for official results to be announced. Fortunately, statisticians came up with a solution to this problem: the conteo rápido. Manuel Mendoza explains what it is and how it works.
Resumo: Partindo da Carta aos Senhores Eleitores da Província de Minas Gerais de 1828, de Bernardo Vasconcelos, apresentamos nossa compreensão sobre o pensamento ilustrado no Brasil, da Inconfidência ...Mineira (1789) ao Primeiro Reinado (1822-1840), e suas implicações com a educação. Nessa fonte documental, analisada sob o referencial teórico da história dos conceitos e de seus usos, de Reinhart Koselleck, percebemos as influências do iluminismo europeu no repertório de nossa elite política. Consideramos, parcialmente, que o projeto inconfidente manteve sua continuidade no discurso e nas ações de Vasconcelos demonstrando que a escola pensada no Império também significou uma centralização conservadora.
This paper aims to determine Lithuania’s, Latvia’s, and Estonia’s parties’ positions on the European Union (EU) and to ascertain whether these party positions mirror their voters’ positions on the ...EU. Analysis suggests that parties in this region have rather varied positions on the EU, with the exception of hard-Eurosceptic views, which are absent in Baltic states’ party systems. This paper also indicates that parties in the Baltic states tend to mirror, with some exceptions, their voters positions on the EU. This suggests that there may be additional factors determining parties’ positions regarding the EU in the Baltics.
How voting behavior in Latin America is influenced by social networks and everyday communication among peers In Latin America's new democracies, political parties and mass partisanship are not deeply ...entrenched, leaving many votes up for grabs during election campaigns. In a typical presidential election season, between one-quarter and one-half of all voters—figures unheard of in older democracies—change their voting intentions across party lines in the months before election day. Advancing a new theory of Latin American voting behavior, Persuasive Peers argues that political discussions within informal social networks among family members, friends, neighbors, coworkers, and acquaintances explain this volatility and exert a major influence on final voting choices.Relying on unique survey and interview data from Latin America, the authors show that weakly committed voters defer to their politically knowledgeable peers, creating vast amounts of preference change as political campaigns unfold. Peer influences also matter for unwavering voters, who tend to have social contacts that reinforce their voting intentions. Social influence increases political conformity among voters within neighborhoods, states, and even entire regions, and the authors illustrate how party machines use the social topography of electorates to buy off well-connected voters who can magnify the impact of the payoff. Persuasive Peers demonstrates how everyday communication shapes political outcomes in Latin America's less-institutionalized democracies.
Objective
We examine the size, characteristics, and attitudes of Unaffiliated party registrants as they compare to registrants from the two major parties.
Methods
We analyze voter registration files, ...voter history files, and public opinion data from North Carolina.
Results
Unaffiliated registrants are not simply shadow partisans but, on average, are distinct from two major parties in terms of demographics, political behavior, and political attitudes.
Conclusion
Voters who eschew party labels are best understood as unmoored voters—often hovering close to their ideological docks but with no institutional constraint to keep them from drifting as the political tides shift.
Meet Jordan Bardella, the hard-right 28-year-old could soon become France's youngest prime minister ever. Often described as Marine Le Pen's protégé, his ascent from obscurity to the cusp of high ...office is one of the more improbably in French politics.
In the U.S., we have historically looked to our educators to prepare citizens for full participation in our democracy as engaged and informed voters. We examine the student voting movement that has ...taken root in colleges and universities across the country—a movement that offers a promising way forward in forming a new generation of engaged citizens. We detail what we know about how to increase student turnout, suggest ways to strengthen voter mobilization efforts through a broader civic education agenda, chart a path forward for future research, and offer recommendations for college administrators who seek to make voting a lifelong habit for their students. We also look beyond the student voting movement to argue for new forms of pedagogy that foster civic identity so that students think of themselves as voters who always vote, because voting is a necessary way to express themselves as engaged citizens.
The five percent hurdle for the Bundestag has proven its worth and should be retained . On the one hand, it was able to keep splinter parties out of the Bundestag and, on the other hand, it did not ...block the way for newly founded parties to enter the federal parliament . However, the basic mandate clause and the minority clause undermine the meaning of the five percent hurdle . They are worthy of abolition . Instead, each voter should get a second- ary vote . It would then come into play if the voter voted for a party that failed at the five percent hurdle . Such a reform would retain the benefits of the ratchet clause and eliminate its disadvantages .
Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. Citizens are very sensitive to ...environmental contextual factors such as the title 'President' preceding 'Obama' in a newspaper headline, upbeat music or patriotic symbols accompanying a campaign ad, or question wording and order in a survey, all of which have their greatest influence when citizens are unaware. This book develops and tests a dual-process theory of political beliefs, attitudes and behavior, claiming that all thinking, feeling, reasoning and doing have an automatic component as well as a conscious deliberative component. The authors are especially interested in the impact of automatic feelings on political judgments and evaluations. This research is based on laboratory experiments, which allow the testing of five basic hypotheses: hot cognition, automaticity, affect transfer, affect contagion and motivated reasoning.
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