the present paper subject is analysis of socioeconomic and cultural issues affecting electoral participation in turks, kurds and baluch. the theoretical framework of the study based on lipset and huntington's approach to analyzing the impact of economic development on democratization and the recent opinion of the thinkers, such as almond and verba and jill on the effect of culture on democ...

globalization is a multi-dimensional process of economic, political, cultural, and ideological change. it has had a mixed impact on women’s rights. on the one hand, it has led to increasing violations of women’s economic, political, and cultural rights in large measure due to the withering away of the welfare-developmental state, the feminization of poverty, the expansion of religious fundament...

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 ...

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...

Usingdata fromthe2000NationalAnnenbergElectionSurvey, this study looksat the relationshipsbetween Internet access andonlineexposure to information about the presidential campaign and political efficacy, knowledge, and participation. Results show that Internet access and online exposure to information about the presidential campaign are significantly associated with these important political var...

Many studies have revealed that conventional forms of political participation, especially among young people, women, minorities and migrants, are currently in decline (e.g., Blais & Dobrzynska, 1998; Franklin, 2002; International IDEA, 2004; Putnam, 2000). However, two different explanations have been put forward to explain this phenomenon: some authors argue that political apathy and alienatio...