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How political efficacy relates to online and offline political participation: a multi-level meta-analysis

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dc.contributor.authorOser, Jennifer
dc.contributor.authorGrinson, Amit
dc.contributor.authorBoulianne, Shelley
dc.contributor.authorHalperin, Eran
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-13
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-12T21:20:28Z
dc.date.available2022-10-12T21:20:28Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe rapid rise of digital media use for political participation has coincided with an increase in concerns about citizens’ sense of their capacity to impact political processes. These dual trends raise the important question of how people’s online political participation is connected to perceptions of their own capacity to participate in and influence politics. The current study overcomes the limitation of scarce high-quality cross-national and over-time data on these topics by conducting a meta-analysis of all extant studies that analyze how political efficacy relates to both online and offline political participation using data sources in which all variables were measured simultaneously. We identified and coded 48 relevant studies (with 184 effects) representing 51,860 respondents from 28 countries based on surveys conducted between 2000 and 2016. We conducted a multilevel random effects meta-analysis to test the main hypothesis of whether political efficacy has a weaker relationship with online political participation than offline political participation. The findings show positive relationships between efficacy and both forms of participation, with no distinction in the magnitude of the two associations. In addition, we tested hypotheses about the expected variation across time and democratic contexts, and the results suggest contextual variation for offline participation but cross-national stability for online participation. The findings provide the most comprehensive evidence to date that online participation is as highly associated with political efficacy as offline participation, and that the strength of this association for online political participation is stable over time and across diverse country contexts.
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dc.identifier.citationOser, J., Grinson, A., Boulianne, S., & Halperin, E. (2022). How political efficacy relates to online and offline political participation: A multi-level meta-analysis. Political Communication, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2022.2086329
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2022.2086329
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/2758
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectpolitical efficacy
dc.subjectonline political participation
dc.subjectoffline political participation
dc.subjectmultilevel random effects meta-analysis
dc.titleHow political efficacy relates to online and offline political participation: a multi-level meta-analysisen
dc.typeArticle

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