Social Structure and Political Participation
Author: Norman H. Nie
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Published: 1993-08-01
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ISBN-13: 9780829027488
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Author: Norman H. Nie
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Published: 1993-08-01
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ISBN-13: 9780829027488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jōji Watanuki
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sidney Verba
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1987-01-16
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 0226852962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParticipation in America represents the largest study ever conducted of the ways in which citizens participate in American political life. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie addresses the question of who participates in the American democratic process, how, and with what effects. They distinguish four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity, and interaction with a public official to achieve a personal goal. Using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities, the authors investigate the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation. Recipient of the Kammerer Award (1972), Participation in America provides fundamental information about the nature of American democracy.
Author: World Health Organization
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789241548052
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Author: David Horton Smith
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 720
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tianjian Shi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1107011760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses surveys, statistics, and case studies to explain why and how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior.
Author: Meredith Rolfe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 110737913X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns of social ties between potential voters. Potential voters who move in larger social circles, particularly those including politicians and other mobilizing actors, have more access to the flurry of electoral activity prodding citizens to vote and increasing political discussion. Treating voting as a socially defined practice instead of as an individual choice over personal payoffs, a social theory of participation is derived from a mathematical model with behavioral foundations that is empirically calibrated and tested using multiple methods and data sources.
Author: Robert B. Smith
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-09
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9401774870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes practical and moral influences on voting decisions. Undermining the widespread assumption that economic self-interest is the key determinant of voting choices, it discovers that moral considerations rooted in religious traditions are often the more decisive. This finding is confirmed through a close analysis of tangible problems, such as child neglect and crime, problems which one would expect to trouble practical voters. Further, this book suggests that political ideologies influence party affiliation, rather than the other way around. It defines four categories of states in terms of human development and income equality—South, Heartland, postindustrial, and “balanced.” It then explains why political color (red, purple, or blue) and societal problems vary across these categories. Voters’ moral ideologies, it shows, combine with a state’s measure of income equality and human development to shape a state’s readiness to pursue practical solutions to societal problems. Finally, it shows that moral ideologies of the religious right and authoritarianism, two very different concepts, are in fact intertwined empirically. This book thus suggests that education—a key driver of human development, anti-authoritarianism, and deliberative voting—should begin in preschools that are both nurturant and instructive.
Author: Yannis Theocharis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1351394606
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it. Political Participation in a Changing World will assist both scholars and students of political behaviour to systematically study new forms of political participation without losing track of more conventional political activities.