Measuring Political Efficacy.
Measuring Political Efficacy.
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衡量政治效能。
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2016
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Michael A. Maggiotto
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S. Craig;Michael A. Maggiotto
A concept frequently employed in studies of political behavior is "sense of political efficacy," originally de fined as: "the feeling that individual political action does have, or can have, an impact upon the political process, i.e., that it is worth while to perform one's civic duties. It is the feeling that the individual citizen can play a part in bringing about this change" (Campbell et a I., 1954: 187). Conceptually, this definition contains two rather distinct components: poIiticaI effeetiveness and system responsiveness. For example, Coleman and Davis (1976:189 190) contend that A low sense of political efficacy could be a func tion of . . . personal inability to elicit a re sponse from a system which responds to some people, or shared inability to elicit a response from an unresponsive system. In the former case, we are dealing with the self as an attitude object; in the latter case it is the system which is the attitude object. Operationally, Balch (1974) demonstrated that the standard 4-item CPS efficacy scale breaks down into two pairs of items?each relatively uncorrelated with the other, and each exhibiting different patterns of association with such vari ables as political trust, political participation, and atti tudes toward politcal protest. In recent years, an increasing number of empirical studies have distinguished between the two dimensions of political efficacy. These dimensions now are defined by CPS