Political involvement and social capital in Europe

Abstract: "Levels of political involvement still are surprisingly different among European citizenries. Apparently, neither the establishment of democratic institutions nor the rise in competences among mass publics has lead to a convergence of the levels of political involvement. Only at a very general level, systemic differences can be noted between the settled democracies of North-western Europe and the newer democracies of Southern Europe. The analyses presented here examine several explanations of the cross-national differences in political involvement by developing multi-level models combining the impact of various factors at the individual and the macro level using the first wave of the European Social Survey (2002-2003) as the primary data source. The results show that of the social capital factors, only the support for norms and values contributes to the explanation of political involvement after the conventional antecedents at the individual level are taken into account. Neither so

Alternative title
Politische Beteiligung und Sozialkapital in Europa
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 5335-5346 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet
In: Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert (Hg.): Die Natur der Gesellschaft: Verhandlungen des 33. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Kassel 2006. Teilbd. 1 u. 2. 2008. S. 5335-5346. ISBN 978-3-593-38440-5

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Frankfurt am Main
(who)
Campus Verl
(when)
2008
Creator
Deth, Jan W. van
Contributor
Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-154101
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Deth, Jan W. van
  • Rehberg, Karl-Siegbert
  • Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
  • Campus Verl

Time of origin

  • 2008

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