Voter Turnout in Western Europe Since 1945
Author: Rafael López Pintor
Publisher: International IDEA
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoter turnout in Western Europe since 1945 [electronic resource] : a regional report.
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Activating the Citizen
Author: J. DeBardeleben
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-08-12
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0230240909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe decline of citizen involvement affects two key elements of democratic government: elections and political parties. Activating the Citizen examines the reasons underlying citizen withdrawal and explores and assesses innovative approaches on both sides of the Atlantic to try to counter these phenomena.
Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945
Author: Mark N. Franklin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-04-19
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780521541473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoting is a habit. People learn the habit of voting, or not, based on experience in their first few elections. Elections that do not stimulate high turnout among young adults leave a 'footprint' of low turnout in the age structure of the electorate as many individuals who were new at those elections fail to vote at subsequent elections. Elections that stimulate high turnout leave a high turnout footprint. So a country's turnout history provides a baseline for current turnout that is largely set, except for young adults. This baseline shifts as older generations leave the electorate and as changes in political and institutional circumstances affect the turnout of new generations. Among the changes that have affected turnout in recent years, the lowering of the voting age in most established democracies has been particularly important in creating a low turnout footprint that has grown with each election.
Class Voting in Western Europe
Author: Oddbjørn Knutsen
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780739129265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClass Voting in Western Europe outlines the theories of changes in class voting and provides an empirical analysis of class voting. Knutsen's thorough study will provide a new, straightforward understanding of social class and party choice to anyone interested in the complex r...
Young People's Political Participation in Western Europe
Author: Gema Garcia Albacete
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1137341319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people's political participation in Europe in recent decades. It uses various concepts of 'age' to compare participation across countries and over time.
Youth Voter Participation
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe importance of the youth vote to any democracy is central to this cross-cultural analysis of the unique role of elections—and the dangers of abstention—in a democratic society. Comparative data from the parliamentary elections of 15 European democracies illustrate the scope of the problem of low youth turnout, and analyses of the reasons for such negligible participation are presented. Specially commissioned interviews conducted in several countries worldwide bring the opinions and views of young people themselves into the study. Additionally, descriptions of specific programmes for increasing youth participation enacted in Chile, Russia, South Africa, and the United States and included, as are proposals for a variety of activities that governmental and nongovernmental organizations can use to draw young citizens into the electoral arena.
Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe
Author: Maria T. Grasso
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-31
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1317407954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new comparative analysis shows that there are reasons to be concerned about the future of democratic politics. Younger generations have become disengaged from the political process. The evidence presented in this comprehensive study shows that they are not just less likely than older generations to engage in institutional political activism such as voting and party membership - they are also less likely to engage in extra-institutional protest activism. Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe offers a rigorously researched empirical analysis of political participation trends across generations in Western Europe. It examines the way in which the political behaviour of younger generations leads to social change. Are younger generations completely disengaged from politics, or do they simply choose to participate in a different way to previous generations? The book is of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of political sociology, political participation and behaviour, European Politics, Comparative Politics and Sociology.
The Latin American Voter
Author: Ryan E Carlin
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2015-07-21
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 047205287X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic opinion and political behavior experts explore voter choice in Latin America with this follow-up to the 1960 landmark The American Voter
The Vanishing Voter
Author: Thomas E. Patterson
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-09-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0307548678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote. Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter investigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures—the percentage of voters has steadily decreased to the point that the United States now has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson cites the blurring of differences between the political parties, the news media’s negative bias, and flaws in the election system to explain this disturbing trend while suggesting specific reforms intended to bring Americans back to the polls. Astute, far-reaching, and impeccably researched, The Vanishing Voter engages the very meaning of our relationship to our government.
Young People's Political Participation in Western Europe
Author: Gema Garcia Albacete
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014-10-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781137341303
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre young people today politically 'apathetic'? Or are they democratically 'mature' citizens? This book examines several types of involvement to reveal changes in young people's political participation in Europe in recent decades. It uses various concepts of 'age' to compare participation across countries and over time.
