The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation
What effect does government responsiveness have on political participation? Since the 1940s political scientists have used attitudinal measures of perceived efficacy to explain participation. More recent work has focused on underlying genetic facto...
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okr-10986-227802021-04-23T14:04:10Z The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation Sjoberg, Fredrik M. Mellon, Jonathan Peixoto, Tiago USERS TECHNOLOGY RELIABILITY ELECTIONS LOCAL AUTONOMY LOCAL AUTHORITIES CUSTOMER GENERAL POPULATION POLITICS RESULTS AUTONOMY PARTICIPATION POLITICAL SCIENCE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS REPORTS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PUBLIC SERVICES POLITICAL ECONOMY MENU ACTIVISM EFFICACY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP NATION PUBLIC CHOICE DEMOCRACIES INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN COMPUTER RESULT CIVIC EDUCATION STREET LIGHTING ICT DATA STATES POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION VOTERS EVALUATION POLITICAL BEHAVIOR DOMAIN SUBJECT LINE LICENSE VOTING DEMOCRACY INNOVATION POLITICAL SCIENTISTS ORGANIZATIONS LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL USER ID PHOTO COLLECTIVE ACTION PUBLIC SERVICE GOVERNMENTS OPEN SOURCE CODE DATABASES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION SOURCE CODE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS PUBLIC PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY INFRASTRUCTURE ACTIONS What effect does government responsiveness have on political participation? Since the 1940s political scientists have used attitudinal measures of perceived efficacy to explain participation. More recent work has focused on underlying genetic factors that condition citizen engagement. The authors develop a ‘calculus of participation’ that incorporates objective efficacy, the extent to which an individual’s participation actually has an impact, and test the model against behavioral data from FixMyStreet.com (n=399,364). The authors find that a successful first experience using FixMyStreet.com (e.g., reporting a pothole and having it fixed) is associated with a 54 percent increase in the probability of an individual submitting a second report. The authors also show that the experience of government responsiveness to the first report submitted has predictive power over all future report submissions. The findings highlight the importance of government responsiveness for fostering an active citizenry, while demonstrating the value of incidentally collected data to examine participatory behavior at the individual level. 2015-10-19T20:55:09Z 2015-10-19T20:55:09Z 2015-02-26 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/09/25051854/effect-government-responsiveness-future-political-participation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22780 English en_US Digital Engagement Working Paper Series; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
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USERS TECHNOLOGY RELIABILITY ELECTIONS LOCAL AUTONOMY LOCAL AUTHORITIES CUSTOMER GENERAL POPULATION POLITICS RESULTS AUTONOMY PARTICIPATION POLITICAL SCIENCE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS REPORTS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PUBLIC SERVICES POLITICAL ECONOMY MENU ACTIVISM EFFICACY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP NATION PUBLIC CHOICE DEMOCRACIES INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN COMPUTER RESULT CIVIC EDUCATION STREET LIGHTING ICT DATA STATES POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION VOTERS EVALUATION POLITICAL BEHAVIOR DOMAIN SUBJECT LINE LICENSE VOTING DEMOCRACY INNOVATION POLITICAL SCIENTISTS ORGANIZATIONS LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL USER ID PHOTO COLLECTIVE ACTION PUBLIC SERVICE GOVERNMENTS OPEN SOURCE CODE DATABASES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION SOURCE CODE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS PUBLIC PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY INFRASTRUCTURE ACTIONS |
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USERS TECHNOLOGY RELIABILITY ELECTIONS LOCAL AUTONOMY LOCAL AUTHORITIES CUSTOMER GENERAL POPULATION POLITICS RESULTS AUTONOMY PARTICIPATION POLITICAL SCIENCE LOCAL GOVERNMENTS REPORTS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PUBLIC SERVICES POLITICAL ECONOMY MENU ACTIVISM EFFICACY COPYRIGHT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP NATION PUBLIC CHOICE DEMOCRACIES INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN COMPUTER RESULT CIVIC EDUCATION STREET LIGHTING ICT DATA STATES POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION VOTERS EVALUATION POLITICAL BEHAVIOR DOMAIN SUBJECT LINE LICENSE VOTING DEMOCRACY INNOVATION POLITICAL SCIENTISTS ORGANIZATIONS LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL LEVEL USER ID PHOTO COLLECTIVE ACTION PUBLIC SERVICE GOVERNMENTS OPEN SOURCE CODE DATABASES POLITICAL PARTICIPATION SOURCE CODE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT INNOVATIONS PUBLIC PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY INFRASTRUCTURE ACTIONS Sjoberg, Fredrik M. Mellon, Jonathan Peixoto, Tiago The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation |
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What effect does government
responsiveness have on political participation? Since the
1940s political scientists have used attitudinal measures of
perceived efficacy to explain participation. More recent
work has focused on underlying genetic factors that
condition citizen engagement. The authors develop a
‘calculus of participation’ that incorporates objective
efficacy, the extent to which an individual’s participation
actually has an impact, and test the model against
behavioral data from FixMyStreet.com (n=399,364). The
authors find that a successful first experience using
FixMyStreet.com (e.g., reporting a pothole and having it
fixed) is associated with a 54 percent increase in the
probability of an individual submitting a second report. The
authors also show that the experience of government
responsiveness to the first report submitted has predictive
power over all future report submissions. The findings
highlight the importance of government responsiveness for
fostering an active citizenry, while demonstrating the value
of incidentally collected data to examine participatory
behavior at the individual level. |
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Sjoberg, Fredrik M. Mellon, Jonathan Peixoto, Tiago |
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Sjoberg, Fredrik M. Mellon, Jonathan Peixoto, Tiago |
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Sjoberg, Fredrik M. |
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The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation |
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The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation |
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The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation |
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The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation |
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The Effect of Government Responsiveness on Future Political Participation |
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World Bank, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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