What Kind of Democracy? Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation Conceptualising Comparative Politics Series
Auteur : Vráblíková Kateřina
The broad expansion of non-electoral political participation is considered one of the major changes in the nature of democratic citizenship in the 21st century. Most scholars ? but also governments, transnational and subnational political institutions, and various foundations ? have adopted the notion that contemporary democratic societies need a more politically active citizenry. Yet, contemporary democracies widely differ in the extent to which their citizens get involved in politics beyond voting. Why is political activism other than voting flourishing in the United States, but is less common in Britain and almost non-existent in post-communist countries like Bulgaria? The book shows that the answer does not lie in citizen?s predispositions, social capital or institutions of consensual democracy. Instead, the key to understanding cross-country differences in political activism beyond voting rests in democratic structures that combine inclusiveness and contestation.
What Kind of Democracy? is the first book to provide a theoretically driven empirical analysis of how different types of democratic arrangements affect individual participation in non-electoral politics.
Introduction: The Landscape Puzzle
Chapter 2: Inclusive Contestation
Chapter 3: Micro Level of Political Participation
Chapter 4: How Do State Structures Matter?
Chapter 5: How Does Mobilization Matter?
Chapter 6: How Does Political Culture Matter?
Chapter 7: Solving the Landscape Puzzle
Conclusion: What Kind of Democracy?
Kateřina Vráblíková is Lecturer and the Chair of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Her research and teaching focuses on political participation, political attitudes and values, social movements, and research methods.
Date de parution : 07-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 08-2016
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de What Kind of Democracy? :
Mots-clés :
Nonelectoral Participation; Comparative Politics; Nonelectoral Political; Democracy; Nonelectoral Activism; Democratic Phoenix; Inclusive Contestation; Democratic Theory; Public Contestation; International Social Survey Programme module Citizenship; Self-expressive Culture; Multilevel modelling; Microlevel Factors; Non-electoral Politics; Conditional Marginal Effects; Political Behaviour; Van Deth; Political Culture; Power Separation; Political Participation; Itic Al; Socioeconomic Development; Cross-country Differences; Large Cross-country Differences; Inclusive Consensus; Le Ve; Ta Te; Political Parties; Contemporary Democracies; Collective Social Capital; Participatory Institutions; Power Dispersion; Civil Society; Es Ta; Self-expressive Values