Does Knowing Democracy Affect Answers to Democratic Support Questions? A Survey Experiment in Indonesia

Ananda, Aurelia; Bol, Damien

doi:10.1093/ijpor/edaa012

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“…The ultimate goal of this study was to recruit participants to take part in an online survey experiment, 5 which is a common research tool used by social scientists that utilize Facebook to recruit survey respondents (Ananda & Bol, 2020;Elci, 2021). More specifically, we investigate how Facebook Ads can be used to achieve this goal and how different Facebook tools to run these advertisements produce different sample characteristics, response quality and costs.…”

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“…Paid advertisements running on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram offer a unique opportunity for researchers, who need quick and cost-effective access to a pool of online survey participants. During the last few years, scholars have used Facebook Ads for recruitment in countries all around the world, such as Egypt (Williamson & Malik, 2020), Indonesia (Ananda & Bol, 2020), Kenya and Tanzania (L. R. Rosenzweig & Zhou, 2021), Thailand (Jäger, 2017), Turkey (Elci, 2021), and Uruguay (Bentancur et al, 2019). The Coronavirus pandemic has further revealed the potential of Facebook for scholarly research.…”

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How to Improve Representativeness and Cost-effectiveness in Samples Recruited through Meta: A Comparison of Advertisement Tools

Neundorf¹,

Öztürk²

2021

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The use of paid advertisements on social media, in particular Facebook, to create samples for online survey research is becoming increasingly common. Facebook's promise of unmediated, quick, and cheap access to a large pool of survey takers across the world is especially appealing to comparative political scientists and early career researchers. Yet the design of Facebook's algorithm, geared towards business owners, complicates the use of Facebook for research purposes. In this paper, we rely on online surveys conducted in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain and the Czech Republic to reveal how two tools offered by Facebook, the choice of campaign objectives and the use of demographic targeting, affect the recruitment process, response quality, and sample characteristics. First, we demonstrate that the choice of campaign objectives can help researchers to distinguish survey-takers from link-clickers and scrollers on Facebook. Second, our analysis reveals how the use of targeting tools can produce balanced samples with small increases in the cost. Overall, we argue that balanced, inexpensive, and relatively high-quality samples can be created through Facebook only if researchers choose the right combination of Facebook tools, balancing efficiency gains with attention to the sample characteristics.

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How to Improve Representativeness and Cost-effectiveness in Samples Recruited through Meta: A Comparison of Advertisement Tools

Neundorf¹,

Öztürk²

2021

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“…Consequently, the higher educated not only have higher political knowledge but also hold more accurate beliefs about the political system (Seligson, 2002;Monsiváis-Carrillo and Cantú Ramos, 2020). Lending empirical support to the idea that the well-educated are better informed about their country's democratic quality, Ananda and Bol (2020) show that providing information about democracy to citizens in Indonesia lowers satisfaction with democracy among the lower educated but not among the higher educated. If we assume that education increases the accuracy of citizens' beliefs about their country's democratic quality, we can expect education to have a moderating effect on the relationship between macro-level democratic quality and individual-level democratic performance evaluations as well as, by extension, political trust.…”

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Quality of Democracy Makes a Difference, but Not for Everyone: How Political Interest, Education, and Conceptions of Democracy Condition the Relationship Between Democratic Quality and Political Trust

Mauk

2021

Front. Polit. Sci.

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In light of recent crises, not least the COVID-19 pandemic, citizen trust in the political system has been highlighted as one of the central features ensuring citizen compliance and the functioning of democracy. Given its many desirable consequences, one of the key questions is how to increase political trust among ordinary citizens. This paper investigates the role of democratic quality in determining citizens’ trust in the political system. While we know that citizens’ evaluations of democratic performance are a strong predictor of political trust, previous research has shown that trust is not always higher in political systems with higher democratic quality, indicating that democratic performance evaluations do not always correspond to actual democratic quality. Several moderating factors may account for this disconnect between democratic quality and citizens’ evaluations of democratic performance and, ultimately, political trust. For one, citizens may receive different information about the political system; second, they may process this information in different ways; and third, they may have different standards of what democratic quality ought to be. Using survey data from three rounds of the World Values Survey (2005–2020) and aggregate data on democratic quality and other macro determinants of political trust from the V-Dem project and World Development Indicators for 50 democracies around the world, this contribution empirically investigates the complex relationship between democratic quality, democratic performance evaluations, and political trust in multi-level moderated mediation models. Its findings demonstrate that democratic quality affects political trust indirectly through citizens’ democratic performance evaluations and that this indirect effect is stronger for citizens with higher political interest, higher education, and especially those with more liberal conceptions of democracy.

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“…Thus, even though people’s and societies’ definitions and understandings of the concept of democracy differ ( Davidov et al 2014 ), survey responses have the power to predict real-world phenomena. We bracket other potential validity problems, including potential over- or underreporting of true preferences, for example, because of a fear of repression, social desirability bias, or misunderstanding the survey question ( Ananda and Bol 2021 ; Kruse, Ravlik, and Welzel 2019 ). These are not issues we can address with the data available to us.…”

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Humanity’s Attitudes about Democracy and Political Leaders

Anderson¹,

Bol²,

Ananda³

2021

Public Opinion Quarterly

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For decades, researchers have examined people’s beliefs across countries and over time using national samples of citizens. Yet, in an era when economies, societies, and policymaking have become increasingly interconnected, nation-states may no longer be the only or most relevant units of analysis for studying public opinion. To examine what people think about politics on a global scale, we develop tools for measuring public opinion that allow us to transcend national and regional boundaries. Starting with the world as the unit of analysis and humans as the relevant population, we measure and then explore patterns and trends in human preferences for democratic government and political leaders with the help of surveys collected around the world since 1994.

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Does Knowing Democracy Affect Answers to Democratic Support Questions? A Survey Experiment in Indonesia

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How to Improve Representativeness and Cost-effectiveness in Samples Recruited through Meta: A Comparison of Advertisement Tools

How to Improve Representativeness and Cost-effectiveness in Samples Recruited through Meta: A Comparison of Advertisement Tools

Quality of Democracy Makes a Difference, but Not for Everyone: How Political Interest, Education, and Conceptions of Democracy Condition the Relationship Between Democratic Quality and Political Trust

Humanity’s Attitudes about Democracy and Political Leaders

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