This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, such as: tolerance; political values; religious orientations; gender roles; voluntary associations; party organizations and party positions; democratic regimes, and the mass media. Each chapter covers different topics, methods, data and countries, making use of research to show the problems of finding similar or identical indicators in realistic research settings.
This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses...
Democracy's life elixir is political participation. In the last five decades, the avenues and means for political engagement have expanded continuously. This expansion has included activities as diverse as voting, signing petitions, blogging, tweeting, demonstrating, boycotting products, blocking traffic, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seed bombs, or donating money. The spread of internet-based technologies has reinforced this expansion. Despite the growing interest in measuring new forms of participation, there has been virtually no systematic empirical accounts on what...
Democracy's life elixir is political participation. In the last five decades, the avenues and means for political engagement have expanded continuo...
