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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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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 participatio... view more
"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)... view less
Keywords
research; civil society; education; political movement; Internet; social integration; social relations; social inequality; inclusion; United States of America; gender; Europe; income; political activity; democracy; political participation; social differentiation; exclusion; politics; citizens' involvement
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Method
empirical; quantitative empirical
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
31 p.
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications
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