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Miroslav Nemcok & Johanna Peltoniemi

Distance and Trust: An Examination of the Two Opposing Factors Impacting Adoption of Postal Voting Among Citizens Living Abroad

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Johanna Kallio, Hannu Lahtinen & Hanna Wass

A Tale of Two Professions in Elections: Party Choice Among Diaconal and Social Workers

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Hanna Wass & Elisabeth Gidengil

Editorial: “Health and Political Behavior”: Towards an Integrative Approach

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Yosef Bhatti, Kasper M. Hansen, Elin Naurin, Dietlind Stolle & Hanna Wass

Can you deliver a baby and vote? The effect of the first stages of parenthood on voter turnout

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Becoming a parent is a profound change in one’s life that likely has consequences for political mobilization. This paper focuses on the earliest stages of parenthood, which have rarely been theorized nor empirically investigated. Close to childbirth, there may be substantial demobilizing effects due to hospital stays, immediate childcare responsibilities, parenting distress and the physical burden of pregnancy and childbirth. It is unclear how sizeable these effects are on political demobilization as well as the extent to which they are long-lasting. Based on two individual-level register datasets from Denmark and Finland, we compare the voter turnout among parents in local elections across different dates of childbirth. We find a robust negative short-term effect. We also find that the recovery periods after childbirth are differentiated by gender, illustrating a somewhat stronger demobilizing effect of early stages of motherhood compared to the early stages of fatherhood. There are also some indications that recovery periods after childbirth are slower for women with higher socioeconomic backgrounds. Our study shows that childbearing and childbirth have strong demobilizing, although mostly temporary, implications for electoral participation, even in these strong welfare states.

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Elisabeth Gidengil, Hannu Lahtinen, Hanna Wass, Jani Erola

From Generation to Generation: The Role of Grandparents in the Intergenerational Transmission of (Non-)Voting

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Abstract This study explores the role of grandparents in the intergenerational transmission of the propensity to vote. Grandparental effects are theorized in terms of both social learning and status transmission. The analysis takes advantage of a unique Finnish data set that links official turnout data for grandparents, parents and adult grandchildren with demographic and socioeconomic information from administrative sources. Even controlling for a variety of status-related characteristics, having non-voting grandparents proves to have a negative effect on the adult grandchild’s propensity to vote. This effect is
only partly explained by the mediating effect of parental turnout. Having nonvoting grandparents appears to reinforce the effect of having parents who do not vote and may even offset the effects of having parents who are both voters. The concluding discussion addresses some of the study’s limitations and lays out several possible future research directions.

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Miroslav Nemčok

From Duverger to the Seat Product: seeking a pattern in experts’ evaluation of electoral systems

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Widely influential Duverger’s “law” and “hypothesis” describe the main direction of influence of electoral rules on party systems; however, their formulations are quite blurry what makes their application to concrete electoral results often ambiguous. Therefore, this research conducted an original survey among electoral experts (n = 131) to explore whether they apply Duverger’s rule in a consistent pattern which could lead to its less ambiguous specification. Experts’ responses revealed a considerable heterogeneity which indicates that they are often unsure about the likely outcomes of electoral systems. Nevertheless, experts were, on average, close to the central tendency predicted by the Seat Product Models [Taagepera, Rein. 2007. Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems. New York: Oxford University Press] which quantifies the Duverger’s rule. Hence, experts, on average, think that election outcomes should look like what Seat Product Models predict. Therefore, the Models should be used as a baseline in electoral studies, because they allow more fine-grained evaluation of electoral systems.

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Mike Medeiros, Åsa von Schoultz, Hanna Wass

Language matters? Antecedents and political consequences of support for bilingualism in Canada and Finland

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Language policies are important sociopolitical features of multilingual countries. Not only do they regulate relations with governmental authorities, but they can also impact intergroup relations. Yet, empirical research has tended to ignore language policies. Very little is known in relation to the factors that lead individuals to support or oppose such policies. Furthermore, to the best of our knowledge, there is relatively little knowledge regarding the influence of attitudes towards language policies on subsequent political phenomena. The present article seeks to address these gaps by exploring bilingualism in Canada and Finland. Specifically, using survey data from both countries’ national election studies, the article, firstly, examines factors that can account for support towards bilingualism and, secondly, it investigates the relationship of these attitudes with vote choice. The results reveal two main findings. Firstly, support for bilingualism seems to be associated with context-specific factors; a general pattern of determinants is not indicated by the results. Secondly, attitudes towards bilingualism are found to have a significant association on vote choice in both Canada and Finland.

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BIBU Talk 1.3.2019

BIBU Talks: Median tunnetalous ja uudet solidaarisuuden muodot

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Perjantai 1.3.2019
Tiedekulma, Think Lounge (Yliopistokatu 4)

Kuinka eri tavoin media voi edesauttaa tai rajoittaa solidaarisuutta ja ymmärrystä yhteiskunnallisesta eriarvoisuudesta? Miten tunnetalous toimii uudessa algoritmisessa mediaympäristössä?

Mitä merkitystä on sillä, että kierrätämme kuvia pakolaisten kärsimyksestä somessa ja osoitamme solidaarisuutta #Metoo -kampanjassa? Professori Kaarina Nikunen ja tutkija Saara Särmä keskustelevat digitaalisen mediaympäristön vaikuttamismahdollisuuksista Nikusen kirjan julkistamistilaisuudessa perjantaina 1.3.

Kaarina Nikusen Media Solidarities: Emotions, power and justice in the digital age (Sage 2019) pureutuu siihen, kuinka eri tavoin media voi edesauttaa tai rajoittaa solidaarisuutta ja ymmärrystä yhteiskunnallisesta eriarvoisuudesta ja siihen, miten tunnetalous toimii uudessa algoritmisessa mediaympäristössä.

Kirjassa käsitellään muun muassa siirtolaisuuteen ja Euroopan pakolaisuuteen liittyvää mediatuotantoa, esimerkiksi tosi-tv:n hyväntekeväisyyttä, aktivistimediaa, some-kampanjoita ja poliittisia protesteja. Tapaukset valottavat uusien kollektiivisten tuotantojen merkitystä ja kuvittelun käytäntöjä, joissa ohjataan viha ja suuttumus kohti hoivaa ja hitaita prosesseja, esimerkiksi osana protestikutomista ja todistamisen arkistoja.

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Anu Kantola
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Mirja Hämäläinen
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BIBU Talk 18.12.

BIBU Talks: Osallistuva budjetointi tulee – Miten se palvelee demokratiaa?

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Tiistai 18.12.2018
Sofia Future Farm (Sofiankatu 4 C)

Kuten kaikissa osallisuus- ja vaikuttamismenetelmissä, on tämänkin vaikutuskanavan kohdalla huolehdittava tasavertaisuudesta.

Osallistuva budjetointi kiinnostaa kaupunkipäättäjiä. Osallistuvaan budjetointiin käytetään Helsingissä vuosittain 4,4 miljoonaa euroa. Onko se paljon vai vähän? Onko osallistuva budjetointi pöhinäpuhetta vai mielekäs keino kaupunkilaisille vaikuttaa?

Osallistuvan budjetoinnin tavoitteena on lisätä asukkaiden osallisuutta päätöksenteossa, helpottaa osallistumista ja mahdollistaa suora demokratia. Mallin ajatuksena on, että asukkaat osallistuvat kunnan talouden suunnitteluun yhdessä viranhaltijoiden kanssa. Juuri nyt helsinkiläisiltä kerätään ideoita osallistuvan budjetoinnin varojen käytöstä. Kuten kaikissa osallisuus- ja vaikuttamismenetelmissä, on tämänkin vaikutuskanavan kohdalla huolehdittava tasavertaisuudesta.

Vuoden viimeisessä BIBU Talksissa uutta vaikuttamiskanavaa myllätään nimenomaan demokratian edistämisen näkökulmasta keräämällä yhteen tutkijat, hallinnon ja poltiikan edustajat sekä yleisön.

Tilaisuudessa kuullaan tiivis alustus tutkija Titiana Ertiöltä ja alustuksen jälkeen paneelissa ovat mukana Tuusulan kunnan kehittämispäällikkö Heidi Hagman, Helsingin kunnanvaltuutettu Veronika Honkasalo sekä Helsingin osallistuvan budjetoinnin kehittämispäällikkö Kirsi Verkka. Keskustelua vetää tutkija Mikko Rask.

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Anu Kantola
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BIBU Talk October 5.

Women turning to the radical right – Will Europe follow the French example?

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Friday October 5 at 2 pm
Tiedekulma, Fönsteri-space (Yliopistonkatu 4)

Throughout the parties’ advance, political scientist have been fairly convinced about one thing: men vote for the Populist Radical Rights more than women.

From the 1990s onwards, right-wing populist parties have become an established part of the political scenery in Europe. Throughout the parties’ advance, political scientist have been fairly convinced about one thing: men vote for the Populist Radical Rights more than women. Yet in 2012, Marine Le Pen, the new leader of the Front National (FN), realized almost the same score among female and male voters in the French presidential elections. Could this happen elsewhere in Europe too?

After a brief outline of the electoral impact of gender, professor Nonna Mayer will give a presentation on post-electoral surveys conducted in France after each presidential election since 1988. The presentation attempts to explain the decreasing gender gap of Populist Radical Right voters in the 2012 and 2017 elections and asks if the trend can persist and expand.

After the presentation, professor of gender studies Anu Koivunen (University of Tampere) will give a short commentary. Koivunen’s fields of expertise include feminist theory, media studies and populism.

Professor Nonna Mayer is a Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Research Director Emerita at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), Sciences Po Paris.

This BIBU Talk is chaired by University Research Fellow Hanna Wass, University of Helsinki. Wass directs the work package "Mapping Biases and Bubbles in Citizen Participation” in the BIBU project. The event is organized in collaboration with the Social Research Seminar Series.

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Anu Kantola
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anu.kantola@helsinki.fi
050 448 7273

Mirja Hämäläinen
Vuorovaikutuskoordinaattori
mirja.hamalainen@demoshelsinki.fi
050 380 5086

Isak Vento
Koordinaattori
isak.vento@helsinki.fi
050 448 8945