In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, social network sites such as Facebook allowed users to share their political beliefs, support specific candidates, and interact with others on political issues. But do political activities on Facebook affect political participation among young voters, a group traditionally perceived as apathetic in regard to civic engagement? Or do these activities repres...

Research on political activism compares the ways that citizens participate, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. The standard paradigm was established in earlier decades by the seminal works in the social psychological tradition: Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba’s The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (1963), Sidney Verba an...

The political participation of immigrants is an important gauge of their integration into thereceiving society more generally, as well as an indicator of the degree of openness of politicalelites towards ethnic minorities. With the restructuring of State intervention and the diffusion ofcivic culture, the role that immigrant associations play in shaping urban social policies has...

Abstract—This paper deals with the comparison of women’s political participation in Korea and China. Korean women are participated more in higher education. As the economic development and the women's social participation can enhance the possibility of women's political participation in advanced democratic countries, in Asian countries such as Korea and China in which Confucianism prohibited wo...

This paper asks whether political participation confers psychological benefits. Four hypotheses were tested: that involvement in volunteer activities reduces subsequent psychological distress, that resisting perceived discrimination does, that the benefits of political involvement are more pronounced for respondents prone to psychological distress, and that any observed benefits of political in...

When congregations seek to address social needs, they often pursue this goal through acts of service and political engagement. Over the past three decades, a tremendous amount of research has been dedicated to analyzing congregation-based service provision and political participation. However, little is known about how congregations’ involvement in these arenas has changed during this period. T...

This paper seeks to more clearly define and measure the phenomenon of eparticipation, focusing specifically on the question of whether it is simply an extension of existing forms, differing only in mode, or whether it offers a new and qualitatively different form of political engagement. The analysis is timely since despite over a decades‟ worth of research being conducted into the topic of epa...

1 Contents Introduction 2 1. Changing patterns of political engagement and new citizenship perceptions: conceptual overview 4 2. Young people and political participation 6 2.1. Effective ways of influencing decision-making: perceptions of young people 6 2.2. Young people's political participation: traditional and new ways of expressing opinions 10 3. Young people and their perception of EU citi...