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This chapter uses ordinal logistic regression to examine the propensity of respondents from two representative population surveys to self-empowerment in connection with the climate school strikes of the Fridays-for-Future movement. An aggregated index is used that combines three items: own participation or participation of a relative in the protests, evaluation of the climate school strikes and priority of the school obligation over the climate strikes. The analysis shows that people who agree with self-empowerment in the context of the Fridays for Future school strikes are younger, more trusting of science, but also more willing to trust political actors, their fellow human beings and social media. In addition, these people are generally satisfied with the performance of the political parties in solving problems—with the exception of the climate crisis. They are particularly close to the parties from the left spectrum, have a greater interest in politics and accept that in exceptional situations laws are broken.
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The implementation of an ordinal logistic regression requires the proportionality assumption (English “proportional odds assumption”), which assumes that the proportion of observations in each level of the dependent variable is consistent across each level of the predictor variable. This assumption is checked by means of a chi-square test, which is very liberal and actually always rejects this assumption for large models with many, even parametric predictors and extensive samples (O’Conell 2006; Brant 1990). This is also the case for the models calculated here. However, due to the good model fit, the high variance explained and the extremely plausible results, we have decided to present and interpret the results of the models anyway. However, it should be noted that caution should be exercised when interpreting.
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Kirsch, P., Kube, H., Zohlnhöfer, R. (2023). Fridays for Future Self-empowerment. In: Societal Self-empowerment in Germany. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-40865-7_5
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