Abstract We theoretically investigate how political abstention among certain social groups encourages populist parties to enter the stage, trying absorb inactive voters. design a two-stage game with two established and n voters who jointly determine taxation policy. The electorate is divided into groups, advantaged disadvantaged. Voters’ decisions on whether participate depend party’s tax rate ...

Recent research demonstrates that a wide range of political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors can be explained in part by genetic variation. However, these studies have not yet identified the mechanisms that generate such a relationship. Some scholars have speculated that psychological traits mediate the relationship between genes and political participation, but so far there have been no empir...

Societies build their interpretation and representation on the different phenomena in social, historical political processes, so also culture contains a set of beliefs, ideas, myths, norms, which give it identity, values, ends. Consequently, from democratic culture, citizen is encouraged to move public space, determined by actions, practices. As result these relationships, participation mechani...

Student organizations have a role in the political process, guarding government policies with their movements and contributing intelligence as students to achieve renewal of Indonesian nation. This study examines relationship between efficacy participation student organization cadres. The research method used this is quantitative Likert scale. subjects amounted 92 Islamic Association cadres cha...

The role of social media in influencing political thinking, perception, and participation is becoming increasingly important, as evident the volume research topic has attracted. This article presents findings on media, efficacy, Nigeria. objective to evaluate relationship between efficacy; participation; efficacy To this end, study adopted a web survey design for sample participants across coun...

The relationship between the use of social media and political participation has been explored and discoursed by various researchers. Current study observes this relationship in the context of Pakistan. The research intends to explore the use of Facebook among Pakistani students and its subsequent association with their political participation. For this purpose, a survey (N= 416) has been condu...

This comparative study of young adults in an established democracy (America) and transitional democracy (Hong Kong) analyzed the impact of political efficacy on the relationship between Internet/Facebook use on political and civic participation. Regression analyses in both samples showed that Facebook use consistently predicted both types of participation. Moreover, there were significant negat...

Drawing upon material from two case-studies in Germany and Austria, we analyse the political and cultural regimes into which design and participation are embedded. Three arenas for participation are distinguished: Designing work-designing systems; Designing organisational frameworks for action; Designing the industrial relations context. Our case analysis focuses on the evolving network of acto...

Scholars have had limited success empirically demonstrating the importance of political participation. This study shows that political participation matters because it influences political rewards. Political participation, specifically voting, acts as a political resource for geographic groups. Voting is a resource because members of Congress seek to maximize the benefits of Federal budget allo...

This research was conducted to study the effect of gender inequality on social participation of women. The method used in this research was Ex-Post Facto and survey method. The statistical population included female students in different fields of faculty of humanities and faculty of training sciences and psychology (Islamic Azad University) Garmsar Branch in 2012-2013. Research instruments inc...