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Parties, Candidates and Citizens On-Line - Åbo Akademi

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List of tables<br />

Article I:<br />

Table 1. Operationalizations of the variables ............................................................46<br />

Table 2. Description of cases (see Appendix for a list of the studies) ..................47<br />

Table 3. Thruth table depicting the distribution of cases ........................................47<br />

Article II:<br />

Table 1. Producer types of the Finnish electoral web sphere .................................67<br />

Table 2. Information features by producer types. Figures are<br />

the percentage of sites including a specific feature ...................................69<br />

Table 3. Engagement features by producer types. Figures are<br />

the percentage of sites including a specific feature ...................................71<br />

Table 4. <strong>C<strong>and</strong>idates</strong> on-line: a European comparison .............................................72<br />

Table 5. A Logistic regression model predicting the c<strong>and</strong>idates’<br />

use of websites .................................................................................................73<br />

Table 6. Three clusters of c<strong>and</strong>idates’ websites: mean scores<br />

on the information <strong>and</strong> engagement indices ..............................................73<br />

Table 7. Characteristics of the c<strong>and</strong>idates belonging to<br />

the clusters (percentages) ..............................................................................75<br />

Table 8. Logistic regression models predicting the voters’ web use.......................77<br />

Table 9. The importance attached to different sources by age groups .................78<br />

Article III:<br />

Table 1. Party questionnaire index scores ..................................................................94<br />

Table 2. Two clusters of parties: mean scores on the questionnaire indexes .......96<br />

Table 3. Party questionnaire clusters: the associated parties ...................................97<br />

Table 4. Contents of the Finnish parties’ websites: index scores ...........................99<br />

Table 5. Two clusters of party websites: mean scores on<br />

the website content index ...........................................................................100<br />

Table 6. Party website clusters: the associated parties ............................................101

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