Are elected legislators responsive to citizen policy demands expressed in social media? A comparative analysis of Latin American democracies

当选立法者是否对社交媒体上表达的公民政策要求做出回应？

• 批准号: 2811023
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2811023
• 关键词: elected; legislators; responsive; citizen; policy

This research seeks to assess whether elected legislators take an interest in voter demands expressed on social media, and to measure the extent in which they respond. Given that the literature has shown the importance of social media in political participation, it is unexpected that findings on the influence of citizens' social media use on policymaking are less conclusive. To gauge the role of social media in legislators' policymaking, the project will use a cross-national comparative analysis of Brazil, Chile and Mexico, using quantitative and qualitative methods to identify factors that foster this relationship. The ubiquity of political social media use in citizens and legislators in these countries provides the project with ample evidence for measuring the effects of social media at different stages of policymaking.

这项研究旨在评估当选议员是否对社交媒体上表达的选民需求感兴趣，并衡量他们的反应程度。鉴于文献已经表明社交媒体在政治参与中的重要性，关于公民使用社交媒体对决策的影响的研究结果不那么具有决定性，这是令人意外的。为了衡量社交媒体在立法者决策中的作用，该项目将对巴西、智利和墨西哥进行跨国比较分析，采用定量和定性方法确定促进这种关系的因素。这些国家的公民和立法者普遍使用政治社交媒体，这为该项目提供了充分的证据，以衡量社交媒体在决策的不同阶段的影响。