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The Inequality of Participation: Re-examining the Role of Social Stratification and Post-Communism on Political Participation in Europe
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Abstract This article compares the determinants of political participation, from voting and signing petitions to boycotting, across 23 European countries, posing the question whether and to what degree social inequalities in political participation differ between post-communist and Western countries. The dat... view more
This article compares the determinants of political participation, from voting and signing petitions to boycotting, across 23 European countries, posing the question whether and to what degree social inequalities in political participation differ between post-communist and Western countries. The data for the analysis is from the second round of the ESS survey, conducted in 2004–2005. The analysis focuses on the role of education, occupation, and gender in shaping the chances of engaging in political action, while also controlling for a range of sociological, political, and demographic variables. Interaction effects between individual variables and a post-communist dummy variable are used to directly compare the statistical signifi cance of the difference in coeffi cients between post-communist and Western countries. The article finds that the observed effects of the post-communist context are actually accounted for by the indirect effects of a number of individual-level variables. In particular, education, occupation, and gender have stronger effects in post-communist countries than Western countries on many forms of political participation; in other words, the post-communist countries exhibit somewhat larger inequalities in political participation than in the West.... view less
Classification
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
political participation; political behaviour; social inequality; social stratification; post-communism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
487–517 p.
Journal
Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 45 (2009) 3
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications