Value orientations and socio-political participation of Russians

socio-economic development, ethnicity and political participation

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...

value orientations in citizens’ social participation in mashhad

one of main goals of urban officials is encouraging and promoting social participation among citizens. this is so, because both reduce costs and can be a base for self-fulfillment and empowerment among citizens. but, like other actions, measuring participative actions has some difficulties. the main difficulty is about measuring that part of social action which occurs in actor’s mind. this part...

Political orientations, intelligence and education

Article history: Received 15 April 2011 Received in revised form 13 October 2011 Accepted 22 November 2011 Available online xxxx The social sciences have traditionally assumed that education is amajor determinant of citizens' political orientations and behavior. Several studies have also shown that intelligence has an impact. According to a theory that conceptualizes intelligence as a burgher (...

Political Efficacy and political participation

2011Uprising and Tunisian Women’s Socio-political Status

AbstractA street vendor named Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest after a police officer seized his cart and produce. This embarked a set of social Unrest and demonstrations across Tunisia and the events rapidly exceeded Tunisia to many other Arab Countries. Now, more than six years after the start of uprisings in Arab States, Tunisia is almost the only country that emerged as a dem...