Blar i Department of Comparative Politics på forfatter "Johannesson, Mikael Poul"
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Conditional Legitimacy: How Turnout, Majority Size and Outcome Affect Perceptions of Legitimacy in EU Membership Referendums
Arnesen, Sveinung; Saghaug Broderstad, Troy; Johannesson, Mikael Poul; Linde, Jonas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This conjoint study investigates the type of mandate a referendum confers in the political decision-making process. While a majority of citizens in general believe that the government should follow the results of a referendum ... -
Disentangling the Influence of Recommender Attributes and News-Story Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment on Exposure and Sharing Decisions on Social Networking Sites
Johannesson, Mikael Poul; Knudsen, Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-08-17)While news outlets still play an important role as a source of news, people increasingly receive their political information and news from social networking sites (SNSs). This study extends the literature on exposure and ... -
Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation?
Arnesen, Sveinung; Duell, Dominik; Johannesson, Mikael Poul (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)We elicit citizens' preferences over hypothetical candidates by applying conjoint survey experiments within a probability-based online panel of the Norwegian electorate. Our experimental treatments differ in whether citizens ... -
Do Polls Influence Opinions? Investigating Poll Feedback Loops Using the Novel Dynamic Response Feedback Experimental Procedure
Arnesen, Sveinung; Johannesson, Mikael Poul; Linde, Jonas; Dahlberg, Stefan (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Opinion polls may inadvertently affect public opinion, as people may change their attitudes after learning what others think. A disconcerting possibility is that opinion polls have the ability to create information cascades, ...