INFOPOL
"Information-processing by individual political actors. The determinants of exposure, attention and action in a comparative perspective"
| Coordinatore | UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
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| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Belgium [BE] |
| Totale costo | 2˙497˙399 € |
| EC contributo | 2˙497˙399 € |
| Programma | FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) |
| Code Call | ERC-2011-ADG_20110406 |
| Funding Scheme | ERC-AG |
| Anno di inizio | 2012 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2012-10-01 - 2017-09-30 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM.
Organization address
address: GIVAT RAM CAMPUS contact info |
IL (JERUSALEM) | beneficiary | 492˙338.40 |
| 2 |
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Organization address
address: KINGS COLLEGE CIRCLE 27 contact info |
CA (TORONTO) | beneficiary | 214˙940.50 |
| 3 |
ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Organization address
address: SHERBROOKE STREET WEST 845 contact info |
CA (MONTREAL) | beneficiary | 96˙676.99 |
| 4 |
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Organization address
address: PRINSSTRAAT 13 contact info |
BE (ANTWERPEN) | hostInstitution | 1˙693˙444.10 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
Organization address
address: PRINSSTRAAT 13 contact info |
BE (ANTWERPEN) | hostInstitution | 1˙693˙444.10 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'A well-functioning democracy implies that political actors are aware of the real problems in society, their potential solutions, and the associated preferences of citizens. This requires information about the real world. This project examines how individual political actors process information coming out of society. Its goal is to lay bare the patterns whereby exposure to certain types of information regarding problems lead to specific forms of attention to that information triggering particular kinds of action by political actors. For the first time, this project tackles the information-processing of political actors in a direct, encompassing and comparative manner. Drawing on previous work on agenda-setting, on bounded rationality and on representation the project first develops a theory of individual political actors’ dealing with information. Information-processing depends on properties of the source of information, of the message itself, and of the receiver of the information. Laying bare the information streams and information-processing of political actors is complex. The study assesses the behavior of political actors in three countries (Belgium, Canada and Israel) and across actors’ different institutional positions (MPs, ministers, party leaders). I expect to find differences between institutional position of actors and between nations. In fact, the countries under study have very different political systems which should lead to a different information-processing behavior of elites. The heart of the empirical part of the project is an in-depth, almost ethnographic study of the information-processing of fifty politicians in each country. These actors are observed relying on (a) time-budgeting, (b) participatory observation, and (c) interviews. Apart from this sample of fifty actors, the entire population (or a large sample) of political actors will be scrutinized using (d) surveys, (e) experiments, and (f) behavioral records.'