Parties, Candidates and Citizens On-Line - Åbo Akademi
Parties, Candidates and Citizens On-Line - Åbo Akademi
Parties, Candidates and Citizens On-Line - Åbo Akademi
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Notes:<br />
1 As of November 16th 2005, 19 registered parties exist, source: the election website of the Finnish<br />
ministry of justice: www.vaalit.fi<br />
2 Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com<br />
3 The Cronbach’s alphas for the scales are; labour input α=.70; central planning of website α=.90;<br />
importance of the website α=.85; general opinion of party website α=.64; informative communication<br />
α=.89; <strong>and</strong> engaging communication α=.90.<br />
4 The Chronbach’s alphas for the scales are; internal administration <strong>and</strong> information α=.69; campaigning<br />
<strong>and</strong> general information α=.89; participation <strong>and</strong> bottom-up communication α=.57; <strong>and</strong> presentation <strong>and</strong><br />
sophistication α=.76.<br />
5 The scales were checked for inter-coder reliability using the formula suggested by Holsti (1969). The<br />
result was a highly satisfactory .88.<br />
6 Clustering criterion: Akaike Information Criterion; cluster distance measure: log-likelihood.<br />
7 A further examination of the correlations (Pearson) between the questionnaire index scores <strong>and</strong> the<br />
website content index scores revealed that the labour input index was significantly positively correlated to<br />
higher scores on internal administration & information (P = .75 p