Influences of contextual information and social connectedness on political behavior

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dc.contributor.advisorStein, Robert M.en_US
dc.creatorJohnson, Pressley Martinen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:28:34Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:28:34Zen_US
dc.date.issued2002en_US
dc.description.abstractShould people listen to their neighbors' political advice? Many models of social influence cast the people in an individual's social environment as monitoring their opinions and enforcing conformity. However, it is not necessarily clear that these neighbors have an incentive to bear costs associated with the coercion of political deviants. I suggest social influence may be the result of individual decisions to pursue benefits associated with following the advice of actors who have provided useful information in the past. I use original public opinion data, survey-based experiments, and social experiments conducted in a behavioral research laboratory to examine the effects of an individual's social interactions and observations of others, social connectedness resulting from these experiences, and their willingness to trust social sources of information.en_US
dc.format.extent257 p.en_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS POL.SCI. 2002 JOHNSONen_US
dc.identifier.citationJohnson, Pressley Martin. "Influences of contextual information and social connectedness on political behavior." (2002) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18094">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/18094</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/18094en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectPolitical scienceen_US
dc.titleInfluences of contextual information and social connectedness on political behavioren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentPolitical Scienceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineSocial Sciencesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophyen_US
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