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...

The right to participation is the "the right of rights"--the basic right of people to have a say in how decisions that affect their lives are made. All legally binding international human rights treaties explicitly recognize the essential role of participation in realizing fundamental human rights. While the substance of the human right to health has been extensively developed, the right to par...