Citizen-Initiated Contacting of Government Officials and Socioeconomic Status: Determining the Relationship and Accounting for It
Citizen-Initiated Contacting of Government Officials and Socioeconomic Status: Determining the Relationship and Accounting for It
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公民主动接触政府官员和社会经济地位：确定关系并对其进行解释
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发表时间：
1982
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
E. Sharp
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作者：
E. Sharp
公民主动联系政府官员的话题越来越受到关注，但关于社会经济地位与联系行为之间关系的研究却得出了相互矛盾的结论。各种研究发现两者呈负相关、正相关、抛物线相关或可忽略不计的相关。提供的数据支持积极关系的主张，并探讨了相互矛盾的发现的原因。需求意识模型与社会经济地位和总体层面上的接触之间的抛物线关系的发现相关，并在个人分析层面上进行了测试。虽然需求和意识因素的重要性得到了肯定，但整体模型并未得到支持。与其他政治参与模式一样，效能感被发现是契约的重要预测因素，但当效能受到控制时，社会经济地位和接触之间的正相关关系仍然存在。
The topic of citizen-initiated contacting of government officials has received increasing attention, but research has yielded conflicting findings on the relationship of socioeconomic status to contacting behavior. Various studies find that the two are negatively, positively, parabolically, or negligibly related. Data are presented supporting the claim of a positive relationship, and reasons for the conflicting findings are explored. The need-awareness model, associated with the finding of a parabolic relationship between socioeconomic status and contacting at the aggregate level, is tested at the individual level of analysis. While the importance of the need and awareness factors is affirmed, the overall model is not supported. As with other modes of political participation, sense of efficacy is found to be an important predictor of contracting, but the positive relationship between socioeconomic status and contacting remains when efficacy is controlled.