The participation gap : social status and political inequality /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2017.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- ""Cover""; ""The Participation Gap: Social Status and Political Inequality""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Part I: Introduction""; ""1: Political Equality as the Foundation of Democracy""; ""The Equality Principle""; ""Evidence of Changing Participation Patterns""; ""The Sources of Inequality""; ""Skills and Resources""; ""Countervailing Factors""; ""Contextual Factors""; ""The Empirical Base of this Study""; ""Plan of the Book""; ""Conclusion""; ""Endnotes""; ""Part II: Individual-level Patterns""; ""2: Opening Political Doors""
- ""Modes of Democratic Participation""""Measuring Participation""; ""Levels of Political Activity""; ""Conclusion""; ""Endnotes""; ""3: For Richer or Poorer, Politically Speaking""; ""Why is there Social Inequality in Participation?""; ""Education and Participation""; ""Income and Participation""; ""Occupation and Participation""; ""The Cumulative SES Effect""; ""Reflections on the Basic SES Model""; ""Endnotes""; ""4: Civil Society Mobilizing Action""; ""The Logic of Group Mobilization""; ""Participating in Civil Society""; ""Linking Groups and Political Participation""
- ""The Interaction between Social Status and Group Mobilization""""Implications for Participation""; ""Endnotes""; ""5: Age, Generations, and Participation""; ""Thinking about the Young, the Old, and Participation""; ""Political Engagement across the Life Cycle""; ""Political Interest""; ""Political Action""; ""An American Case Study""; ""Multivariate Modeling""; ""Multivariate Modeling of the ISSP""; ""The Lessons for Participation""; ""Endnotes""; ""6: WhatÂś a Good Citizen to Do?""; ""The Norms of Citizenship""; ""Measuring Citizenship Norms""; ""Political Efficacy""; ""Social Trust""
- ""Orientations and Participation""""Political Efficacy""; ""Interpersonal Trust""; ""The Civic Voluntarism Model""; ""Participation as a Cumulative Process""; ""Endnotes""; ""7: The Special Case of Online Activism""; ""The Development of Online Activism""; ""The Pew Surveys""; ""Offline and Online Activity""; ""The Correlates of Action""; ""The Lessons of Online Participation""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Endnotes""; ""Part III: Contextual Patterns""; ""8: Context and Inequality""; ""The Varieties of Context""; ""Constitutional Structures""; ""Party and Electoral Systems""
- ""Societal Conditions""""National Context and Participation""; ""Predicting Participation Levels in a Nation""; ""Predicting the Inequality of Participation""; ""Citizens, Context, and Participation""; ""Context and Inequality""; ""Endnotes""; ""9: Is the Gap Widening?""; ""Inequality over Time""; ""Social-status Inequalities in Turnout""; ""Voting in the United States""; ""Voting Inequality Cross-nationally""; ""Time Trends in Other Forms of Political Action""; ""A Case Study: The United States""; ""Cross-national Patterns of Change""; ""Political Participation Then and Now""; ""Endnotes""