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Towards an Empirical Characterization of 'Bridging' and 'Bonding' Social Capital

Coffé, Hilde; Geys, Benny - 2011

Though a vast amount of empirical work stresses the beneficial effects of social capital, the recent literature has explicitly recognized the importance of distinguishing different types of social capital. Particularly, a distinction has been made between homogeneous (or bonding) and...

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Towards an empirical characterization of bridging and bonding social capital

Coffé, Hilde; Geys, Benny - 2006

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Measuring the bridging nature of voluntary organizations : a note on the importance of association size

Coffé, Hilde; Geys, Benny - 2007

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Measuring the Bridging Nature of Voluntary Organizations : The Importance of Association Size

Coffé, Hilde - 2011

Recently, a distinction between bridging and bonding networks is made in the social capital literature. Bridging groups are thereby often expected to have greater effects on democratic norm development as well as generate more positive externalities on society than bonding networks. To allow...

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Response to "Do radical-right parties use descriptive representation strategically? A replication of Weeks et al. (2023)"

Weeks, Ana; Meguid, Bonnie M.; Kittilson, Miki Caul; … - 2024

Guinaudeau and Jankowski reassess our recent study on the use of strategic descriptive representation among political parties in Europe. The authors successfully replicate the vast majority of our findings and perform a number of additional robustness checks. They claim that one of our key...

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Changing Facebook Profile Pictures as Part of a Campaign : Who Does it and Why?

Coffé, Hilde; Chapman, Harry - 2014

People changing their Facebook profile picture in support of campaigns has recently become relatively common, particularly among young people. The current study focuses on the characteristics of young people who change their profile picture and their motivations to do so. Using original data...

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Election cycles in MPs' outside interests? : the UK House of Commons, 2005-2010

Geys, Benny - 2011

Politicians often implement popular changes in public policies prior to elections, with the aim of improving their Election Day outcome. This research note evaluates whether such "electioneering" carries over also into politicians' extra-parliamentary activities. Evidence from the UK House of...

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War casualties and US presidential popularity : a comparison of the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq war

Geys, Benny - 2010

Nach gängiger Meinung verringern Kriegsopfer die Beliebtheit des Amtsinhabers. Wir behaupten, dass die Stärke und sogar … die Richtung dieser Effekte an sich kontextabhängig ist, denn Kriegsschäden und -opfer werden über die Zeit und den Raum … hinweg unterschiedlich wahrgenommen und ist beeinflusst durch geschichtliche Entwicklungen. Obwohl diese Aussage intuitiv ist …

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Wars, presidents and popularity : the political cost(s) of war re-examined

Geys, Benny - 2009

Öffentlichkeit wahrgenommen und verstanden werden, c) Fiskalpolitik die Umfragewerte des Amtsinhabers beeinflusst. Basierend auf US … beeinflusst die vorhergesagten politischen Kosten durch Kriegsopfer (z. B. Korea- und Irak/-Afghanistankrieg). Interessanterweise …

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Success and failure in electoral competition : selective issue emphasis under incomplete issue ownership

Geys, Benny - 2012

Political parties are often argued to compete for voters by stressing issues they feel they own - a strategy known as ‘selective emphasis'. While usually seen as an electorally rewarding strategy, this article argues that cultivating "your" themes in the public debate is not guaranteed to be...

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