Question: ONE: Who cares about political behaviour and why?
(4 pages)
Reading: Question one:
Carmines, E.G. and R. Huckfeldt. 1996. ‘Political Behaviour: an Overview’, in Robert E. Goodin and Hans-Dieter Klingemann, eds., A New Handbook of Political Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 223-254
Dalton, R. J. and Klingemann, H.-D. 2007. ‘Citizens and Political Behaviour’, in Dalton, R. J. and Klingemann, H.-D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 3-28.
Kaase, M. 2007. ‘Perspectives on Political Participation’, in Dalton, R. J. and Klingemann, H.-D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 783-96.
Kittilson, M. C. (2007) ‘Research Resources in Comparative Political Behavior’, in Dalton, R. J and Klingemann, H.-D. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Political Behavior (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 865-95.
Question: Two: Why is it so difficult to measure the impact of social media on political behaviour?
(4 pages)
Reading: Question two:
Ceron, A et al. (2017) ‘Social Media and Elections: A Meta-Analysis of Online-Based Electoral Forecasts’, in Arzheimer, K. et al. The SAGE Handbook of Electoral Behaviour (London: Sage)
Banducci, S. (2017) ‘The Role of Mass Media in Shaping Public Opinion and Voter Behavior’, in Fisher, J. et al. The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion (London: Routledge) – ch.25.
Gaber I, Fisher C. “Strategic Lying”: The Case of Brexit and the 2019 U.K. Election. The International Journal of Press/Politics. 2022;27(2):460-477. doi:10.1177/1940161221994100
Marsh, M. (2017) ‘Voting Behavior in Referendums’, in Fisher, J. et al. The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion (London: Routledge) – ch.21
Ohme, J., & Albæk, E. (2018). Tipping the scale? Social media’s influences on EU attitudes and vote choice in the Danish 2015 EU referendum. Paper presented at ICA Prague 2018 , Prague , Czech Republic. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/ica/ica18/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&selected_paper_id=1362482&PHPSESSID=859jn1g8a4opm07qt2f36f1vn0


