Paul Tap
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139243 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Tap |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Tap |
| FIRMA | TAP P |
| AFILIACIONES | Babeș-Bolyai University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6476-2563 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Great expectations
Very few political science graduates go into politics. While choosing a different career track may be a matter of personal preference or context, the extent to which political science prepares students for political careers is questionable. This article seeks to explore that question by analysing how political science prepares students for activities within political parties. It draws upon semi-structured interviews conducted with political scien…
Government Support, Populist Attitudes and State Surveillance in Hungary
State surveillance has been extensively investigated in various contexts in relation to the use of technology, external threats and people’s attitudes and characteristics. However, the relationship between political attitudes and the public’s acceptance of state surveillance has been underexplored. Our article addresses this gap in the literature and aims to identify the effects of citizens’ political preferences regarding the acceptance of state…
Thriving on poor soil? People’s attitudes towards deliberation in transition countries
Demand for and participation in deliberative practices have often been studied in democratic settings where they were available or took place. However, there is limited information about what shapes people’s attitudes towards deliberative practices in countries that struggle with representative democracy and where deliberation is not available. This article addresses these gaps in the literature and aims to explain why people in the Republic of M…
Rhetorical Consensus About the EU? Comparing Established and New Parties in Europe
In recent decades, researchers have approached the topic of new parties, often explaining how they emerge, adapt to political systems, and gain supporters. However, little research has looked at how discourses differ between new and old parties. The present paper aims to cover this gap by looking at parties’ manifestos and their discourses in relation to the European Union to establish whether there are differences in their views. The study inclu…
Party digitalization and members’ empowerment
The digitalization of political parties has often been approached from the perspective of political parties. Previous studies discuss the potential impact of technology on empowerment, but the users’ attitudes to this are largely unknown. To address this gap in the literature, our article analyses how party members view the empowerment potential of digital tools in their party. We use data from semi-structured interviews conducted in November and…
Participatory Budgeting, Disengagement and Political Parties
Participatory budgeting (PB) was first implemented in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in 1989 as a measure to reduce poverty and decrease child mortality. Since then, it has spread all over the world. It empowers citizens in political action, increases their awareness of the social and political shortcomings of their communities, and allows them to decide how a part of the local budget should be spent. Despite these benefits, people generally rarely engage…
Building bridges
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences
Country presidents and their political parties have strong connections along partisan lines. However, it remains unclear how this relationship unfolds when country presidents have to be non-partisans and formal ties are not permitted. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature and analyzes how country presidents use informal powers to maintain an influence in the life of their (former) political parties. We use Romania as the most l…
Why Do Politicians Not Act Upon Citizens’ Deliberations? Evidence From Iceland
Politicians are expressing increasing support for deliberative practices around the world. However, knowledge about their actions beyond expressing support is scarce. To address this gap in the literature, this article aims to explain why politicians do not pick up the results arising from deliberative practices and integrate them into their policies. Our analysis focuses on the 2019 deliberation in Iceland as the most likely case in which we wou…
Feeling excluded? Why ethnic minorities (do not) engage in participatory budgeting
The increasing use of participatory budgeting (PB) around the world has led to analyses covering people's attitudes towards the process, its empowering characteristics, and its transformational potential.However, we know very little about how people belonging to ethnic minorities position themselves towards PB.This article aims to address this gap and identify what factors determine the engagement of individuals belonging to ethnic minorities wit…
Selling their vote expensively
People’s attitudes towards vote buying have often been studied through the lenses of its acceptability as a norm in society or the drivers behind the decision to accept money if offered. However, we know little about the financial value that voters attach to their vote. To fill this gap in the literature, this research note analyzes what makes people accept different sums of money in exchange for their votes. It uses a survey conducted in Romania…
Buying loyalty
Electoral volatility and clientelism were traditionally analysed through the lenses of clientelistic behaviour by political actors. However, we know very little about the importance of volatility for the formation of attitudes towards clientelism within the electorate. This article addresses that gap by analysing the extent to which volatile voters are more likely to accept electoral clientelism as a political practice. We bring evidence from Rom…
Close to politics and to policies
Citizens with political knowledge can contribute to the quality of democracy in their country. Previous research has established the existence of differences between the actual (objective) and perceived (subjective) level of political knowledge, but the factors driving citizens’ subjective political knowledge in a specific setting in which they can take direct decisions remain unclear. To explain what determines subjective knowledge about referen…
Speaking Out against the Discrimination of Romanians Abroad
Discrimination against minority ethnic groups has often been analyzed through the lenses of institutional action, antiminority rhetoric, and media framing in the countries of residence. However, we know little about how ethnic discrimination is approached in the home countries of these minorities. To address this gap in the literature, our article seeks to explain how Romanian parliamentarians address discrimination against coethnics abroad. We u…
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment
Conservatism, social isolation and political context
The British decision to leave the European Union after the 2016 referendum raises questions about who could be next. This article analyzes why citizens in East European Member States would vote to leave the European Union in the event of further referendums. It proposes an analytical framework that seeks to explain this strong form of Euroscepticism through four variables that are rarely linked to the European Union: political apathy and alienati…
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext
One of the most visible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is on voter turnout. Earlier research concludes that the pandemic depresses turnout by looking at statistical patterns and testing the explanatory power of pandemic casualties against alternative causes. Based on the existing results, we only assume that the pandemic was related to depressing turnout but we do not know if that happened. In this sense, there is limited attention paid to peop…
Stranger than Fiction
Research in politics uses fictitious politicians to explain different processes. In experimental designs, the participants know that these politicians do not exist. However, we know little about what happens when people are not aware about this, and it remains unclear if they distinguish between fictitious and real politicians. Our article aims to explain what makes citizens identify a fictitious party leader. We use individual-level data from a …
More than voters
There is much research about how migrants engage with politics in their home countries and about how state institutions facilitate this involvement. Yet, we know little about how members of Parliament refer to, and debate, issues related to communities of emigrants. The ways in which legislators give voice to and represent the de-territorialized demos has broad implications for the functioning of contemporary democracies. This article analyzes th…
Moving online
The article reveals how Hungarian parties expand their members’ participatory repertoires in intra-party democracy with the help of information and communication technology. By answering the question of how Hungarian parties use digital tools for their internal procedures the article adds to the literature on parties’ use of technology. To make visible the promises and boundaries of online political participation in a post-communist country the a…
Using deliberation for partisan purposes
The paper contributes to the field of party politics and the use of deliberative practices by analyzing how a Hungarian political party uses deliberation to its own advantage. Our focus is on the National Consultation, which was designed by the elite populist radical right party Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz-MPP) in 2005 as a deliberative practice to increase the party’s social embeddedness. The National Consultation became a governme…
First-time voters and honest political leaders
Voters favour some personal characteristics of political leaders over others. So far, we know little about why honesty is one of these characteristics. This article identifies what makes first-time voters to prefer honest political leaders. It uses an original survey conducted after the 2019 Romanian presidential elections. Our analysis argues and tests the explanatory power of three categories of determinants: trust in political institutions, vo…
Authoritarian police in democracy
Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America." Democratization, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
More than voters
There is much research about how migrants engage with politics in their home countries and about how state institutions facilitate this involvement. Yet, we know little about how members of Parliament refer to, and debate, issues related to communities of emigrants. The ways in which legislators give voice to and represent the de-territorialized demos has broad implications for the functioning of contemporary democracies. This article analyzes th…
Moving online
The article reveals how Hungarian parties expand their members’ participatory repertoires in intra-party democracy with the help of information and communication technology. By answering the question of how Hungarian parties use digital tools for their internal procedures the article adds to the literature on parties’ use of technology. To make visible the promises and boundaries of online political participation in a post-communist country the a…
Using deliberation for partisan purposes
The paper contributes to the field of party politics and the use of deliberative practices by analyzing how a Hungarian political party uses deliberation to its own advantage. Our focus is on the National Consultation, which was designed by the elite populist radical right party Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz-MPP) in 2005 as a deliberative practice to increase the party’s social embeddedness. The National Consultation became a governme…
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment
Conservatism, social isolation and political context
The British decision to leave the European Union after the 2016 referendum raises questions about who could be next. This article analyzes why citizens in East European Member States would vote to leave the European Union in the event of further referendums. It proposes an analytical framework that seeks to explain this strong form of Euroscepticism through four variables that are rarely linked to the European Union: political apathy and alienati…
Buying loyalty
Electoral volatility and clientelism were traditionally analysed through the lenses of clientelistic behaviour by political actors. However, we know very little about the importance of volatility for the formation of attitudes towards clientelism within the electorate. This article addresses that gap by analysing the extent to which volatile voters are more likely to accept electoral clientelism as a political practice. We bring evidence from Rom…
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences
Country presidents and their political parties have strong connections along partisan lines. However, it remains unclear how this relationship unfolds when country presidents have to be non-partisans and formal ties are not permitted. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature and analyzes how country presidents use informal powers to maintain an influence in the life of their (former) political parties. We use Romania as the most l…
Why Do Politicians Not Act Upon Citizens’ Deliberations? Evidence From Iceland
Politicians are expressing increasing support for deliberative practices around the world. However, knowledge about their actions beyond expressing support is scarce. To address this gap in the literature, this article aims to explain why politicians do not pick up the results arising from deliberative practices and integrate them into their policies. Our analysis focuses on the 2019 deliberation in Iceland as the most likely case in which we wou…
First-time voters and honest political leaders
Voters favour some personal characteristics of political leaders over others. So far, we know little about why honesty is one of these characteristics. This article identifies what makes first-time voters to prefer honest political leaders. It uses an original survey conducted after the 2019 Romanian presidential elections. Our analysis argues and tests the explanatory power of three categories of determinants: trust in political institutions, vo…
Selling their vote expensively
People’s attitudes towards vote buying have often been studied through the lenses of its acceptability as a norm in society or the drivers behind the decision to accept money if offered. However, we know little about the financial value that voters attach to their vote. To fill this gap in the literature, this research note analyzes what makes people accept different sums of money in exchange for their votes. It uses a survey conducted in Romania…
Speaking Out against the Discrimination of Romanians Abroad
Discrimination against minority ethnic groups has often been analyzed through the lenses of institutional action, antiminority rhetoric, and media framing in the countries of residence. However, we know little about how ethnic discrimination is approached in the home countries of these minorities. To address this gap in the literature, our article seeks to explain how Romanian parliamentarians address discrimination against coethnics abroad. We u…
Rhetorical Consensus About the EU? Comparing Established and New Parties in Europe
In recent decades, researchers have approached the topic of new parties, often explaining how they emerge, adapt to political systems, and gain supporters. However, little research has looked at how discourses differ between new and old parties. The present paper aims to cover this gap by looking at parties’ manifestos and their discourses in relation to the European Union to establish whether there are differences in their views. The study inclu…
Party digitalization and members’ empowerment
The digitalization of political parties has often been approached from the perspective of political parties. Previous studies discuss the potential impact of technology on empowerment, but the users’ attitudes to this are largely unknown. To address this gap in the literature, our article analyses how party members view the empowerment potential of digital tools in their party. We use data from semi-structured interviews conducted in November and…
Feeling excluded? Why ethnic minorities (do not) engage in participatory budgeting
The increasing use of participatory budgeting (PB) around the world has led to analyses covering people's attitudes towards the process, its empowering characteristics, and its transformational potential.However, we know very little about how people belonging to ethnic minorities position themselves towards PB.This article aims to address this gap and identify what factors determine the engagement of individuals belonging to ethnic minorities wit…
Authoritarian police in democracy
Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America." Democratization, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Close to politics and to policies
Citizens with political knowledge can contribute to the quality of democracy in their country. Previous research has established the existence of differences between the actual (objective) and perceived (subjective) level of political knowledge, but the factors driving citizens’ subjective political knowledge in a specific setting in which they can take direct decisions remain unclear. To explain what determines subjective knowledge about referen…
Moving online
The article reveals how Hungarian parties expand their members’ participatory repertoires in intra-party democracy with the help of information and communication technology. By answering the question of how Hungarian parties use digital tools for their internal procedures the article adds to the literature on parties’ use of technology. To make visible the promises and boundaries of online political participation in a post-communist country the a…
Using deliberation for partisan purposes
The paper contributes to the field of party politics and the use of deliberative practices by analyzing how a Hungarian political party uses deliberation to its own advantage. Our focus is on the National Consultation, which was designed by the elite populist radical right party Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Alliance (Fidesz-MPP) in 2005 as a deliberative practice to increase the party’s social embeddedness. The National Consultation became a governme…
First-time voters and honest political leaders
Voters favour some personal characteristics of political leaders over others. So far, we know little about why honesty is one of these characteristics. This article identifies what makes first-time voters to prefer honest political leaders. It uses an original survey conducted after the 2019 Romanian presidential elections. Our analysis argues and tests the explanatory power of three categories of determinants: trust in political institutions, vo…
Stranger than Fiction
Research in politics uses fictitious politicians to explain different processes. In experimental designs, the participants know that these politicians do not exist. However, we know little about what happens when people are not aware about this, and it remains unclear if they distinguish between fictitious and real politicians. Our article aims to explain what makes citizens identify a fictitious party leader. We use individual-level data from a …
More than voters
There is much research about how migrants engage with politics in their home countries and about how state institutions facilitate this involvement. Yet, we know little about how members of Parliament refer to, and debate, issues related to communities of emigrants. The ways in which legislators give voice to and represent the de-territorialized demos has broad implications for the functioning of contemporary democracies. This article analyzes th…
Close to politics and to policies
Citizens with political knowledge can contribute to the quality of democracy in their country. Previous research has established the existence of differences between the actual (objective) and perceived (subjective) level of political knowledge, but the factors driving citizens’ subjective political knowledge in a specific setting in which they can take direct decisions remain unclear. To explain what determines subjective knowledge about referen…
Speaking Out against the Discrimination of Romanians Abroad
Discrimination against minority ethnic groups has often been analyzed through the lenses of institutional action, antiminority rhetoric, and media framing in the countries of residence. However, we know little about how ethnic discrimination is approached in the home countries of these minorities. To address this gap in the literature, our article seeks to explain how Romanian parliamentarians address discrimination against coethnics abroad. We u…
Participatory budgeting and the perception of collective empowerment
Conservatism, social isolation and political context
The British decision to leave the European Union after the 2016 referendum raises questions about who could be next. This article analyzes why citizens in East European Member States would vote to leave the European Union in the event of further referendums. It proposes an analytical framework that seeks to explain this strong form of Euroscepticism through four variables that are rarely linked to the European Union: political apathy and alienati…
Using the Pandemic as a Pretext
One of the most visible effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is on voter turnout. Earlier research concludes that the pandemic depresses turnout by looking at statistical patterns and testing the explanatory power of pandemic casualties against alternative causes. Based on the existing results, we only assume that the pandemic was related to depressing turnout but we do not know if that happened. In this sense, there is limited attention paid to peop…
Selling their vote expensively
People’s attitudes towards vote buying have often been studied through the lenses of its acceptability as a norm in society or the drivers behind the decision to accept money if offered. However, we know little about the financial value that voters attach to their vote. To fill this gap in the literature, this research note analyzes what makes people accept different sums of money in exchange for their votes. It uses a survey conducted in Romania…
Authoritarian police in democracy
Authoritarian police in democracy: contested security in Latin America." Democratization, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Buying loyalty
Electoral volatility and clientelism were traditionally analysed through the lenses of clientelistic behaviour by political actors. However, we know very little about the importance of volatility for the formation of attitudes towards clientelism within the electorate. This article addresses that gap by analysing the extent to which volatile voters are more likely to accept electoral clientelism as a political practice. We bring evidence from Rom…
Rhetorical Consensus About the EU? Comparing Established and New Parties in Europe
In recent decades, researchers have approached the topic of new parties, often explaining how they emerge, adapt to political systems, and gain supporters. However, little research has looked at how discourses differ between new and old parties. The present paper aims to cover this gap by looking at parties’ manifestos and their discourses in relation to the European Union to establish whether there are differences in their views. The study inclu…
Party digitalization and members’ empowerment
The digitalization of political parties has often been approached from the perspective of political parties. Previous studies discuss the potential impact of technology on empowerment, but the users’ attitudes to this are largely unknown. To address this gap in the literature, our article analyses how party members view the empowerment potential of digital tools in their party. We use data from semi-structured interviews conducted in November and…
Participatory Budgeting, Disengagement and Political Parties
Participatory budgeting (PB) was first implemented in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in 1989 as a measure to reduce poverty and decrease child mortality. Since then, it has spread all over the world. It empowers citizens in political action, increases their awareness of the social and political shortcomings of their communities, and allows them to decide how a part of the local budget should be spent. Despite these benefits, people generally rarely engage…
Building bridges
Informal Power and Short-Term Consequences
Country presidents and their political parties have strong connections along partisan lines. However, it remains unclear how this relationship unfolds when country presidents have to be non-partisans and formal ties are not permitted. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature and analyzes how country presidents use informal powers to maintain an influence in the life of their (former) political parties. We use Romania as the most l…
Why Do Politicians Not Act Upon Citizens’ Deliberations? Evidence From Iceland
Politicians are expressing increasing support for deliberative practices around the world. However, knowledge about their actions beyond expressing support is scarce. To address this gap in the literature, this article aims to explain why politicians do not pick up the results arising from deliberative practices and integrate them into their policies. Our analysis focuses on the 2019 deliberation in Iceland as the most likely case in which we wou…
Feeling excluded? Why ethnic minorities (do not) engage in participatory budgeting
The increasing use of participatory budgeting (PB) around the world has led to analyses covering people's attitudes towards the process, its empowering characteristics, and its transformational potential.However, we know very little about how people belonging to ethnic minorities position themselves towards PB.This article aims to address this gap and identify what factors determine the engagement of individuals belonging to ethnic minorities wit…
Great expectations
Very few political science graduates go into politics. While choosing a different career track may be a matter of personal preference or context, the extent to which political science prepares students for political careers is questionable. This article seeks to explore that question by analysing how political science prepares students for activities within political parties. It draws upon semi-structured interviews conducted with political scien…
Government Support, Populist Attitudes and State Surveillance in Hungary
State surveillance has been extensively investigated in various contexts in relation to the use of technology, external threats and people’s attitudes and characteristics. However, the relationship between political attitudes and the public’s acceptance of state surveillance has been underexplored. Our article addresses this gap in the literature and aims to identify the effects of citizens’ political preferences regarding the acceptance of state…
Thriving on poor soil? People’s attitudes towards deliberation in transition countries
Demand for and participation in deliberative practices have often been studied in democratic settings where they were available or took place. However, there is limited information about what shapes people’s attitudes towards deliberative practices in countries that struggle with representative democracy and where deliberation is not available. This article addresses these gaps in the literature and aims to explain why people in the Republic of M…
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