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Author: Geraint Parry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-01-16
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780521336024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe results of a survey on the level and patterns of political involvement in Britain.
Author: Harold D. Clarke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-07-23
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0521874440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows that judgment of party competence is at the heart of electoral choice in contemporary Britain.
Author: Timothy Peace
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-01
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1317931971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new volume showcases the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives. Muslims play a prominent role in British political life yet what do we actually know about the involvement of British Muslims beyond the existence of a handful of Muslim MPs? What is unique about political participation in Muslim communities? All the major parties actively seek to court a ‘Muslim electorate’ but does such a phenomenon exist? Despite the impact that Muslims have had on election campaigns and their roles in various political institutions, research on this topic remains scant. Indeed, much of the existing work was couched within the broader areas of the participation of ethnic minorities or the impact of race on electoral politics. The chapters in this volume address this lacuna by highlighting different aspects of Muslim participation in British politics. They investigate voting patterns and election campaigns, civil society and grassroots political movements, the engagement of young people and the participation of Muslims in formal political institutions. Written in an accessible style, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of political participation and religious studies.
Author: Paul Whiteley
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780472106202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers an explanation for political activism and general political participation
Author: James Sloam
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-12-06
Total Pages: 137
ISBN-13: 3319974696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book investigates the reasons behind the 2017 youthquake – which saw the highest rate of youth turnout in a quarter of a century, and an unprecedented gap in youth support for Labour over the Conservative Party – from both a comparative and a theoretical perspective. It compares youth turnout and party allegiance over time and traces changes in youth political participation in the UK since the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis – from austerity, to the 2016 EU referendum, to the rise of Corbyn – up until the June 2017 General Election. The book identifies the rise of cosmopolitan values and left-leaning attitudes amongst Young Millennials, particularly students and young women. The situation in the UK is also contrasted with developments in youth participation in other established democracies, including the youthquakes inspired by Obama in the US (2008) and Trudeau in Canada (2015).
Author: Sarah Pickard
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-06-07
Total Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 1137577886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSarah Pickard offers a detailed and wide-ranging assessment of electoral and non-electoral political participation of young people in contemporary Britain, drawing on perspectives and insights from youth studies, political science and political sociology. This comprehensive book enquires into the approaches used by the social sciences to understand young people’s politics and documents youth-led evolutions in political behaviour. After unpicking key concepts including ‘political participation,’ ‘generations,’ the ‘political life-cycle,’ and the ‘youth vote,’ Pickard draws on a combination of quantitative and qualitative research to trace the dynamics operating in electoral political participation since the 1960s. This includes the relationship between political parties, politicians and young people, youth and student wings of political parties, electoral behaviour and the lowering of the voting age to 16. Pickard goes on to discuss personalised engagement through what she calls young people’s (DIO) Do-It-Ourselves political participation in online and offline connected collectives. The book then explores young people’s political dissent as part of a global youth-led wave of protest. This holistic book will appeal to anyone with an interest in young people, politics, protest and political change.
Author: Charles Pattie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-11-11
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521534642
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Author: Matthew Hilton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013-04-25
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0199691878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a challenging new interpretation of politics in contemporary Britain through an examination of non-governmental organisations. Demonstrate how politics and political activism has changed over the last half century.
Author: Russell J. Dalton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017-10-06
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 0191053325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the same time, the importance of social status as an influence on political activity is increasing. The democratic principle of the equality of voice is eroding. The politically rich are getting richer-and the politically needy have less voice. This book assembles an unprecedented set of international public opinion surveys to identify the individual, institutional, and political factors that produce these trends. New forms of activity place greater demands on participants, raising the importance of social status skills and resources. Civil society activity further widens the participation gap. New norms of citizenship shift how people participate. And generational change and new online forms of activism accentuate this process. Effective and representative government requires a participatory citizenry and equal voice, and participation trends are undermining these outcomes. The Participation Gap both documents the growing participation gap in contemporary democracies and suggests ways that we can better achieve their theoretical ideal of a participatory citizenry and equal voice.
Author: Aaron J. Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0415696917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines young people's political engagement in the Anglo-American democracies. It is often alleged that young people are disengaged from politics on a number of levels. The commonly held view is that young people don't vote, they do not trust politicians and have low levels of political interest. But is this true, where is it true and to what extent? Examining voter turnout, political trust, political interest, electoral and non-electoral forms of participation and Internet use, this book provides a comprehensive account of young people's political engagement in the US, Britain, Canada and Australia. In doing so this book challenges the conventional wisdom on a number of fronts by showing young people's political engagement to be much more complicated than many of the stereotypes suggest (in both good and bad ways).In this way, this book provides a report card on young people's political engagement in the twenty-first century. Young People and Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, comparative politics, public policy and sociology, particularly those with a focus on young people and politics, political participation and public opinion.
