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[22] Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe, The Electoral Systems in the Member States of the European Union Applicable to European Elections of June 2004, http://www.ena.lu?lang=2&doc=14720. 83
Appendix A. Abbreviated coding template Information Types Does the site provide: 1. a biography, history, or ‘About Us’ section? 2. endorsements for a candidate or party in an upcoming election? 3. a list of issues positions held by a political actor? 4. speeches by a candidate or party representatives? 5. a calendar/list with prospective election-related events? 6. comparison of issue positions of parties or candidates? 7. information about the electoral campaign process in the country studied? 8. information about the voting process in the country studied? 9. images? 10. audio or video files? 11. a privacy policy? 12. a terms of use statement? Engagement Types 1. Does the site provide contact information for the site producer? 2. Does the site provide opportunities for visitors to join, or become members of the organization? 3. Does the site enable visitors to register to participate in the election? 4. Does the site provide an opportunity for a visitor to sign up to receive email from the site producer? 5. Are donations encouraged or enabled on or through this site? 6. Can visitors to the site participate in an online forum or other communication space? 7. Does the site encourage offline distribution of electoral campaign or election materials? 8. Is there a feature that specifically enables a site visitor to send a link from this site to a friend? 9. Is there a feature that encourages or enables a visitor to make a public statement supporting a political actor or issue? 10. Does the site enable the user to engage in digital promotion of the electoral campaign, party, organization or voting in general? 11. Does the site encourage visitors to volunteer for the electoral campaign? 84
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Kim Strandberg Studies of Politics
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PARTIES, CANDIDATES AND CITIZENS ON
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CIP Cataloguing in Publication Stra
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C. Summary & Conclusions ..........
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List of tables Article I: Table 1.
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A. Introduction
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26; Römmele 2003, 9-11). Therefore
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these scholarly visions (e.g. Corra
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2003b; Gibson & Ward 2002). Regardi
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Some further comments regarding the
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for citizens’ participation and p
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providing the kind of structure for
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To further examine the central comp
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Scholars have noted that some of th
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• In the third article (Strandber
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References Barber, B. 1984. Strong
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Lusoli, W. 2005b. “The Internet a
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Page 45 and 46: Introduction Two specific theories
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Page 51 and 52: Because the study is case-oriented
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Page 55 and 56: Table 1. Operationalizations of the
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Page 63 and 64: References Altheide, D. & Snow, R.
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Page 67 and 68: Appendix B: studies associated with
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Page 109 and 110: sophistication index. These parties
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Page 115 and 116: Notes: 1 As of November 16th 2005,
Page 117 and 118: Kitchelt, H. 2001. ‘Partisan Comp
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Page 124 and 125: Article IV On-line Campaigning - An
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Table 6. OLS multiple regression mo
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affiliated party, even in the candi
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than their rivals (Margolis et al.
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References Altheide, David and Robe
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Norris, Pippa (2001a) A Virtuous Ci
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Campaigning Additive index: 1 point
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Article V “Town Hall” Meetings
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Hence, one must question whether th
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(Coleman and Goetze, 2001: 16; Norr
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Barber mentions that it is only whe
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of user preferences. If internet po
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Table 2. Average degree of liveline
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5. Citizen Participation in the deb
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Over time, there is also a slight,
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would significantly enhance our und
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Notes 1 According to the Nua Intern
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Kamarck, E. 1999. ”Campaigning on
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C. Summary and conclusions A discus
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perspective, the articles have been
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predicting candidate website functi
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articles in the thesis. In general,
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Finnish voters’ propensity to loo
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they did not appear to “become mo
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organizational, financial […] res
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The real impact of internet politic
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Norris, P. 2003. “Preaching to th
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