Why do some developing country governments accumulate large foreign debts while others do not? I hypothesize that variation in foreign borrowing is a function of variation in the breadth of public participation in the political process. Specifically, governments borrow less when political institutions enable broad public participation in the political process and encourage the revelation of inf...

A substantial literature has studied gender differences in political participation in Western industrialized democracies, but little is known about such gaps in sub-Saharan African nations. Using 2005 Afrobarometer data, this paper presents a systematic investigation of the gender gap in political participation across 18 sub-Saharan African countries. In line with cultural isomorphism, patterns...

The link between social trust and political participation has often been found to be either weak or non-existent. However, these studies have neglected the interaction between different levels of analysis and have instead examined them at either the aggregated level or the individual level. These studies hereby overlook that there are good reasons to assume that the effect of social trust on in...

This research is an integration of previous work on political activity and examines a variety of factors thought to be influential in the performance and nonperformance of political behavior. The political participation of a randomly selected sample of local citizens was studied using survey research methods. One hundred and twenty-six individuals responded to survey items assessing participati...

This study compares the effects of consuming news preference online or offline on political participation. It also examines the variation in these effects between young and older adults. Given that young adults are disproportionately more intensive users of the Internet, Internet use may have varying effects on people’s political participation by their age. Secondary analysis of Pew data found ...

This article explores the impact of organizational involvement on political participation in mainland China. The formal organizations in China today differ in the nature of organization and membership, which in turn lead to different effect on political participation. In contrast with the Communist Party and the “mass organizations,” the reemerging civic associations have more voluntary and act...

Transnational governance is increasingly important to many areas of global politics, including global climate change, where multilateral negotiations have fallen into gridlock. However, we have yet to fully understand how domestic political conditions affect suband non-state actors’ ability to engage in governance beyond the state. Existing approaches to transnational governance emphasize, ofte...

This paper discusses the results of research on young immigrants’ political participation on the Internet in Germany. The research focuses on young people from Turkish and East European backgrounds. The interrelation between offline political activities and online political participation is explained and the differences between the two groups are examined. While young German Turks are particula...

contemporary iranian society is transiting from traditional outlook to modern attitudes. social chaos matched with behavioral and thinking chaos is characteristic of transition period. political structure, as a part of society, alongside the juridical, economic and social structure is transiting from traditional sovereignty to intellectual and legal one. political participation, as a tangible a...

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...