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State Political Participation

2014
In this article the authors explore the literature on political participation in the states and argue that research on state political participation has provided the most theoretical and empirical innovation gains for the overall study of participation in the past few decades.
William W. Franko, Caroline J. Tolbert
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Recruitment and Political Participation

Political Research Quarterly, 2001
Political elites spend considerable resources on recruitment activities. Existing research generally concludes that these activities are effective, but also suggests that political elites recruit strategically But strategic recruitment may undermine the impact of recruitment on participation if political elites use past participation as an indicator ...
Paul R. Abramson, William Claggett
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Voting and Political Participation

2017
This chapter reviews the current literature’s findings on how political and social interactions shape voter turnout and other forms of political participation. Current studies, which use a wide range of methodological approaches, from natural experiments and surveys to mathematical modeling, have demonstrated that political networks are a crucial ...
Meredith Rolfe, Stephanie Chan
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Litigation as Political Participation

Israel Studies, 2006
Courts were commonly regarded as a neutral arena to settle disputes between rivals who cannot solve their differences through other means of dispute resolution. In recent years however, greater attention is drawn to the role played by courts within the political process itself.
Gal Dor, Menachem Hofnung
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Political Participation and Protest

2001
Until the reforms began in the late 1970s, China was distinctive for political participation mobilized by the party leadership to show public support for their policies. This chapter looks first at the distinctive features of sanctioned participation under Mao Zedong, such as mass campaigns and the use of role models, and how this participation has ...
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The Politics of Participation

2017
The fact that Canadian young adults vote at markedly lower rates than older generations of citizens is often assumed to imply their collective indifference towards politics. This increasingly ubiquitous narrative dictates that youth (regardless of their social locations and ideological persuasions) shun the ballot box because of their laziness or ...
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Political Participation of Minorities

European Yearbook of Minority Issues Online, 2008
The author briefs about the question as to the reason why one need political participation of persons belonging to minorities. He also equally addresses the issue of who should be able to participate in this process of political participation; this means obviously that he shall deal with the definition of the term 'minority', in particular whether only
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Depoliticisation, governance and political participation

Policy & Politics, 2014
This article critically examines the linkages between the literatures on depoliticisation, governance and political participation. To do so, it is divided into three substantive sections. The first section critiques Flinders and Wood’s article which introduces this edited volume.
David Marsh, Paul Fawcett
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Altruism and Political Participation

2019
Democratic government requires the participation of its citizens, but Downs shows that it is not in the self-interest of individuals to vote, or acquire political information. This chapter reviews the theoretical and empirical support for the three explanations for political participation: civic duty, expressive benefit, and altruism. The preponderance
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The Instruments of Political Participation

1974
This chapter examines the various activities in which utility-maximizing citizens can engage in an effort to reduce, or even to eliminate, the coercion (or the expected coercion) that is placed on them by the government’s supply of policies with public and non-private goods characteristics.1 The object of the chapter could also be defined as that of ...
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