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1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Ser. ; v.1 |
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Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Purpose of the book -- New democracies -- The plan of the book -- Notes -- 2 Why citizens vote -- Contending theories -- general features of the theories of voter turnout -- Theories of electoral participation -- Socio-demographic model -- Demographics factors6 -- Age -- Gender -- Religion -- Ethnicity or race -- Place of residence -- Socioeconomic factors -- Mobilisation model -- Party identification -- Civil society organisations |
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Clientelism -- Political culture/political-psychological model -- "Civic cultures" and political participation -- Political interest and political knowledge -- Political efficacy -- Political and social trust -- The electoral or political-institutional context -- A survey of institutional explanations -- Institutional factors -- Electoral system -- Compulsory voting -- Concurrent elections -- The closeness of the election -- Democratic theories, founding elections, social capital, and electoral turnout in new democracies |
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Elections and the democratisation process: how central is election to democracy? -- Social capital theory -- Theories of electoral participation: are newly consolidated democracies different? -- Electoral participation in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and post-communist European countries -- Alternative explanations of voting in new democracies -- Summary and conclusion -- Notes -- 3 The comparative framework -- Comparative framework and parameters for comparing the regions -- Selection of cases -- Methodological challenges associated with studies of voting behaviour |
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Data, measurement, and estimation strategy -- Data -- Conceptualisation and operationalisation of variables19 -- Measuring electoral participation: dependent variable -- Measuring independent variables -- Socio-demographic variables -- Demographic variables -- Socioeconomic variables -- Mobilisation variables -- Political-psychological variables -- Alternatives variables -- Political and institutional variables -- Empirical and estimation strategy -- Notes -- 4 Socio-demographics and the vote -- Socio-demographics determinants of the vote: bivariate relationships |
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Socio-demographics determinants of the vote: multivariate analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Mobilisation and the vote -- Party identification in new democracies: levels and trends -- Levels of party identification in new democracies -- Party identification, associational membership, clientelism, and voting: bivariate relationships -- General overview of the multivariate results -- Re-considering the impact of clientelism and voting in new democracies -- The scope of clientelism in new democracies -- The correlates of clientelism and vote choice -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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6 Political-psychological variables and the vote |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000352757 |
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1000352757 |
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