this article is a sociological analysis of students political participation and the data are collected through questionnaires from 379 students of university of tehran. this article has used the theories of huntington, geol, milbrath, lipset and political socialization theories. the theoretical framework of the study is eclectic and emphasizes on political socialization. the results of the anal...

ONE of the striking features of political life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century is that racial and ethnic minorities are becoming political majorities. California, Florida, New York, and Texas project that “whites” will be racial minorities in their states within decades, while other states’ immigrant populations have increased substantially in selected communit...

Although there is much empirical support for the causal connection between higher socioeconomic status (SES) and political participation, there are ample instances of lower SES individuals participating and higher SES individuals abstaining from participation. Apparently other factors send some similarly situated individuals down the expected path and cause others to detour. In the same vein, s...

This paper examines the impact of political conditions on female labour force participation in case of Pakistan. The study covers the period of 1980-2010. We found the existence of cointegration between the variables. Democracy and government spending lowers labour female labour participation. Development spending increases female labour participation. This study opens up new insights for polic...

promote gender empowerment indicators of women's political participation in central asia and the caucasus have been estimated and the status of women's political participation and economic participation have two dimensions . continuing with the analysis of qualitative content analysis results are profound and logical evidence , the current status of women in the region have identified...

Recent trends suggest that young people in Britain are increasingly rejecting electoral politics. However, evidence suggests that British youth are not apolitical, but are becoming ever more sceptical of the ability of electoral politics to make a meaningful contribution to their lives. Why young people are adopting new political behaviour and values, however, is still a point of contention. So...

Traditional e-learning uses information and communication technologies to facilitate participant connections, expand access, and provide learning opportunities not necessarily constrained by time or distance (e.g., Evans and Powell 2007). ee-Learning leverages e-learning technology with the philosophy and methodology of experiential education, promoting inquiring forms of community that engage ...

Can compulsory voting induce lasting changes in citizens’ voting habits? We study the long-term and spillover effects of a severely sanctioned and long-standing compulsory voting law in the Swiss canton of Vaud (1900–1970). Our findings suggest that compulsory voting strongly increases turnout in federal referendums by about 30 percentage points. However, this effect returns to zero quickly aft...

disasters provide physical, social, political and environmental development windows of opportunities that can be used not only to reconstruct the impacted areas, but also to improve the socio-economic and physical conditions of the impacted population in the long run. it is argued, however, that there is a limited time frame of approximately four years for such opportunities to be utilized effi...