Obiettivo 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. Campo scientifico scienze socialiscienze politichesistemi di governodemocrazia Programma(i) 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) Argomento(i) ERC-AG-SH2 - ERC Advanced Grant - Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour Invito a presentare proposte ERC-2011-ADG_20110406 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant Coordinatore UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN Indirizzo Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerpen Belgio Mostra sulla mappa Regione Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Anne Adams (Ms.) Ricercatore principale Stefaan Johan Aloys Walgrave (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window Contributo UE € 1 693 444,08 Beneficiari (4) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN Belgio Contributo UE € 1 693 444,08 Indirizzo Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerpen Mostra sulla mappa Regione Vlaams Gewest Prov. Antwerpen Arr. Antwerpen Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Anne Adams (Ms.) Ricercatore principale Stefaan Johan Aloys Walgrave (Prof.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL UNIVERSITY Partecipazione conclusa Canada Contributo UE € 96 676,99 Indirizzo 845 sherbrooke street west H3A0G4 Montreal Mostra sulla mappa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Martyn Liness (Mr.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM Israele Contributo UE € 492 338,40 Indirizzo Edmond j safra campus givat ram 91904 Jerusalem Mostra sulla mappa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Jane Turner (Ms.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Canada Contributo UE € 214 940,50 Indirizzo Kings college circle 27 M5S 1A1 Toronto Mostra sulla mappa Tipo di attività Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Contatto amministrativo Krista Montgomery (Ms.) Collegamenti Contatta l’organizzazione Opens in new window Sito web Opens in new window
