Political Participation in a Changing World Theocharis Yannis University of Mannheim Germany
Democracy's life elixir is political participation. In the last five decades, the avenues and means for political engagement have expanded continuously. This expansion has included activities as…
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Democracy's life elixir is political participation. In the last five decades, the avenues and means for political engagement have expanded continuously. This expansion has included activities as diverse as voting, signing petitions, blogging, tweeting, demonstrating, boycotting products, blocking traffic, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seed bombs, or donating money. The spread of internet-based technologies has reinforced this expansion. Despite the growing interest in measuring new forms of participation, there has been virtually no systematic empirical accounts on what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically, and how prevalent they are in various societies.Written in an accessible style, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth offer
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