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題 名 | Political Conceptualization, Information and Participation |
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作 者 | 盛杏湲; | 書刊名 | 政治學報 |
卷 期 | 28 1997.06[民86.06] |
頁 次 | 頁49-82 |
分類號 | 570 |
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語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | Political conceptualization and information are closely related but distinctive constructs. The former is an information processing mechanism which helps people organize political information and make judgments about political objects; while the latter is the ability to recognize and understand political objects. Their effects on participation are quite different. However, much research on ordinary people's level of sophistication fails to distinguish these two concepts. It is therefore impossible to know whether it is individuals' conceptualization or information which drives them to get involved in politics. I start from a basic assumption that people's political conceptualization and political information both will affect their participation in politics. I also consider the possibility tht people's participation in politics will increase their political conceptualization and political information. Because of the possible recirocal relatiionships, this paper uses a two-stage least squares regression to estimate the effects of political conceptualization and political information on political participation. The model also controls for other determinants of participation--education, age, income, strength of partisanship and political efficacy. Based on panel data from the 1990-1992 Aerican Election Study, this research makes two major contributions. First, I develop a new measure of political conceptualization, which is based on the extent to which respondents rely upon their core belief systems in assessing questions of political policy. Secondly, I show that people's political information affects their participation in politics. That is, the more political information people have, the greater the likelihood that they participate in politics. However, people's political conceptualization has no effect on participation. These findings clearly suggest the need to distinguish between information and conceptualization when interpreting their impacts upon mass engagement in politics. |
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