TY - THES A1 - Langenkamp, Alexander T1 - The issue of loneliness for democracies – alienation, demobilisation, polarisation? N2 - The commulative thesis investigates the relationship between perceived loneliness and political participation. the results of four published papers indicate that loneliness causes distrust and sense of alienation, which leads to political demobilization as well as polarization. KW - Loneliness KW - political attitudes KW - political participation KW - political psychology KW - social relationships Y1 - 2023 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/71950 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-719505 N1 - Kumulative Dissertation – enthält die akzeptierten Manuskriptversionen (Author Accepted Manuscripts) der folgenden Artikel: Chapter: 2 Langenkamp, A. (2021): Enhancing, suppressing or something in between–loneliness and five forms of political participation across Europe. European societies 2021, 23(3), 311-332, eISSN 1469-8307 (Published online: 21 Apr 2021) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2021.1916554 Chapter 3 published as pre-print: Langenkamp, A (2021): The influence of loneliness on perceived social belonging and trust beliefs–longitudinal evidence from the Netherlands. (DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/erpja) and first published online December 8, 2022 on Journal of social and personal relationships, eISSN 1460-3608 https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221144716 Chapter 4 Langenkamp, A. (2021): Lonely hearts, empty booths? The Relationship between loneliness, reported voting behavior and voting as civic duty. Social science quarterly, (2021) 102(4), 1239-1254. eISSN 1540-6237, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.12946 Chapter 5 Langenkamp, A. & Bienstman, Simon (2022): Populism and layers of social belonging: support of populist parties in Europe. Political psychology, first published: 10 April 2022, eISSN 1467-9221, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12827 CY - Frankfurt am Main ER -