Education increases political engagement because it bolsters motivations and cognition on
the one hand, and relative resources on the other. However, personality traits have recently …

Objectives Scholars are increasingly investigating the role of citizens' personality in
activating political behavior. We test whether extraversion is associated to collective political …

Is there a link between personality and the electoral and in-office success of politicians?
Using the Ten-Item Personality Inventory, we examine whether the Five-Factor Model …

Digital transformation has become a topic of interest since public institutions digitalize their
processes to improve efficiency, while citizens wish to solve their issues through online …

Gender differences in political knowledge are a well-known empirical finding in public
opinion research. Scholars working in this area have proposed various explanations for this …

This study advances the theoretical understanding of the effects of incidental news exposure
on political knowledge by probing the mechanisms through which exposure transfers to …

Political scientists have long been interested in the determinants of political knowledge. In
many studies, education is the strongest predictor of political knowledge. However, some …

There have been many attempts to use prebunking strategies to address the problem of
misinformation. While extant research supports their efficacy, it also finds that they could …

Have we entered a 'post-truth'era? This article is an attempt to answer this question by (a)
offering an explication of the notion of 'post-truth'from recent discussions,(b) deriving a …

This paper uses a political economy perspective to study the endogenous formation of
economic policies and its interplay with political institutions. This paper provides a novel …