Political Participation in a Changing World (Routledge Focus)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Would You Recognize a Form of Political Participation if You Saw One? -- 1.1 The Many Faces of Participation -- 1.2 The Argument of the Book -- 1.2.1 Political Participation Expanded: Theoretical Issues -- 1.2.2 Political Participation Expanded: Conceptual Issues -- 1.2.3 Political Participation Expanded: Methodological and Empirical Issues -- 1.3 Plan of the Book -- 2 The Continuous Expansions of Political Participation -- 2.1 Endless Renewals and Expansions -- 2.2 Empirical Evidence From Major Surveys -- 2.3 Empirical Evidence From Specific Studies -- 2.4 The Need for Empirical Improvements -- 3 The Continuous Expansions of Concepts and Definitions of Political Participation -- 3.1 Endless Renewals and Expansions -- 3.2 Available Concepts and Definitions -- 3.3 How to Avoid a "Concept of Everything"? -- 3.3.1 Inductive Approaches -- 3.3.2 Modifying Nominal Definitions -- 3.3.3 Limiting Scope and Sphere -- 3.4 The Need for Conceptual Improvements -- 4 Conceptualizing Political Participation -- 4.1 The Need for a Systematic Approach -- 4.2 The Conceptual Map of Political Participation -- 4.3 Applying the Map to Conceptualize Participation -- 4.4 Preventing an Endless Conceptual Expansion -- 5 Measuring Old and New Forms of Political Participation -- 5.1 A Fresh Look at Political Participation -- 5.2 Integrating Citizens' Input Into the Study of Participation -- 5.2.1 Using the Conceptual Map for a New Measurement Approach -- 5.2.2 Measuring New Forms of Participation -- 5.3 A New Taxonomy of Political Participation -- 5.3.1 Results of the Open Question, Identification of Participatory Acts, and Coding Procedure -- 5.3.2 The Variety of Participation -- 5.3.3 The Structure of Old and New Forms of Participation

• | Author: Yannis Theocharis, Jan W. van Deth
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 07, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 144 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138305987
• | ISBN-13: 9781138305984