Shifting Inequalities? Patterns of exclusion and inclusion im emerging forms of political participation

Ungleichheiten im Wandel? Muster der Exklusion und Inklusion in neu entstehenden Formen politischer Partizipation

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Stolle, Dietlind; Hooghe, Marc

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Corporate Editor	Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH
Abstract	"Previous research has found a steady increase in the number of people involved in emerging forms of civic engagements such as Internet campaigns, protests, political consumerism, and alternative lifestyle communities. Verba et al. (1995) have established that various forms of political participation in the United States follow a pattern of structural inequality, based on income, education, gender and civic skills. The growing popularity of emerging action repertoires forces us to re-evaluate the claims of this literature. Do these patterns of inequality persist for the emerging action repertoires across advanced industrialized democracies, or are they becoming even stronger, as Theda Skocpol (2003, 2004) argues? The results of this cross-national analysis with longitudinal comparisons suggest that gender inequalities in emerging political action repertoires have substantially declined since the 1970s, whereas other forms of inequality have persisted. However, contrary to the more pessimistic claims about a 'participation paradox', there is no evidence that inequality based on socio-economic status has substantially increased since the 1970s." (author's abstract)
Keywords	United States of America; Europe; political participation; political activity; exclusion; inclusion; social differentiation; social integration; social inequality; income; education; gender; citizens' involvement; social relations; civil society; democracy; political movement; Internet
Classification	Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies; Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method	empirical; quantitative empirical
Free Keywords	Forschung; Politik; politische Partizipation; soziale Ungleichheit;
Document language	English
Publication Year	2009
City	Berlin
Page/Pages	31 p.
Series	Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Bildung, Arbeit und Lebenschancen, Abteilung Ungleichheit und soziale Integration, 2009-204
Licence	Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
Document Type	working paper
data provider	This metadata entry was indexed by the Special Subject Collection Social Sciences, USB Cologne

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