CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Bosancianu, Constantin Manuel |
|---|---|
| Title | Experts and Partisans: An Examination of Social Network Effects on Political Participation |
| Summary | For a significant period of time, the effects of the social environment in which individuals are embedded have been ignored by analyses of voting behavior. Recent analyses explore these effects, but are divided on whether social networks can promote political participation and, at the same time, offer incentives for deliberation. This thesis attempts to investigate this phenomenon in the context of the 1996 US presidential election. The hypothesis is that the effects of knowledge at the level of the network and partisan polarization will act as countervailing forces on the propensity for political involvement of an individual. By means of OLS regression with correction for clustering in standard errors applied on data from the Indianapolis – St. Louis Election Study, the hypothesis is partially confirmed. Although the two forces have opposing direction, the effects of social network level of political information significantly outweigh those of partisan polarization in the network. |
| Supervisor | Littvay, Levente Viktor |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/bosancianu_constantin.pdf |
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