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Voter turnout decline and stratification: Quasi-experimental and comparative evidence of a growing educational gap:
Ruth Dassonneville,Marc Hooghe +1 more
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Turnout rates are in decline in advanced democracies, but the consequences of this trend for inequalities in participation have not yet been investigated in a large, comparative study as discussed by the authors, and the results of this study are limited.Abstract:
Turnout rates are in decline in advanced democracies, but the consequences of this trend for inequalities in participation have not yet been investigated in a large, comparative study In this artiread more
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Democracy and Its Critics
TL;DR: The course is focused on historical texts, most of them philosophical as discussed by the authors, and context for understanding the texts and the course of democratic development will be provided in lecture and discussions, and by some background readings (Dunn).
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Gender differences in civic and political engagement and participation among Italian young people
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that female participants reported higher scores on online and civic participation, while male participants were more likely to report political and activist participation, and they did not find any gender differences in voting behavior in the last European Parliament elections, national parliamentary elections, and local elections.
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Compulsory Voting Rules, Reluctant Voters and Ideological Proximity Voting
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of compulsory voting on proximity voting in three countries with strong compulsory voting laws: Australia, Belgium and Brazil, and found that compelling voters to vote tends to weaken the effect of proximity considerations on electoral behaviour.
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Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define political participation as "how much? about what?" and "who participates" and "race, ethnicity, and gender" in the context of political participation.
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Understanding Interaction Models: Improving Empirical Analyses
TL;DR: A survey of the top three political science journals from 1998 to 2002 suggests that the execution of these models is often flawed and inferential errors are common as discussed by the authors, and that scholars follow the simple checklist of dos and don'ts for using multiplicative interaction models presented in this article.
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A new data set of educational attainment in the world, 1950–2010
Robert J. Barro,Jong-Wha Lee +1 more
TL;DR: Barro and Lee as mentioned in this paper used information from consistent census data, disaggregated by age group, along with new estimates of mortality rates and completion rates by age and education level.
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Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation
TL;DR: In this article, a resource model of political participation is developed, where the resources considered are time, money, and civic skills, those communications and organizational capacities that are essential to political activity.
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Democracy and Its Critics
TL;DR: The course is focused on historical texts, most of them philosophical as discussed by the authors, and context for understanding the texts and the course of democratic development will be provided in lecture and discussions, and by some background readings (Dunn).
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