Unequal Political Participation Worldwide - Hardcover

Gallego, Aina

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110702353X ISBN 13: 9781107023536

Verlag: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

This book describes the levels of unequal electoral participation in thirty-six countries worldwide, examines possible causes of this phenomenon, and discusses its consequences.

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Críticas:

'Unequal Political Participation Worldwide is a book that I would love to have written. We take it as a fact that turnout is lower among the less educated. Gallego establishes that the relationship varies a lot among countries. She meticulously shows why. It all depends on institutional features that increase or decrease the costs of voting. The empirical demonstration is masterful and the interpretation elegant and careful. Read the book: you will learn a lot!' André Blais, Université de Montréal

'Gallego's cross-national study demonstrates that the basic democratic principle of 'one person, one vote' is often lacking in contemporary democracies. She marshals an impressive array of evidence from the comparative study of electoral systems and creative survey experiments to describe educational differences in voting turnout and the causal processes at work. This book yields valuable new insights into how context - ranging from electoral systems to income inequality - shapes electoral turnout, and why it matters.' Russell J. Dalton, University of California, Irvine

'In this important, clearly written book, Gallego shows that the linkage between education and electoral participation across thirty-six democracies varies enormously ... The book is particularly impressive in [two] ways: the first is a careful distinction between homogeneous and heterogeneous effects, that is, factors that affect all potential voters equally versus differentially; the second ... is the inclusion of three survey experiments testing the effects of ballot structures and the extent of electoral and governmental fragmentation on the probability to vote.' A. Siaroff, Choice

Reseña del editor:

El Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas ha publicado, en coedición con Cambridge University Press, la obra "Unequal Political Participation Worldwide", de Aina Gallego, en la que se analizan los niveles de participación desigual de treinta y ses países de todo el mundo, examinando las posibles causas de este fenómeno y valorando sus consecuencias. De alcance global y gran apoyo experimental en originales encuestas y datos de observación, la obra es fruto de un proyecto conjunto entre ambas editoriales, iniciado en 2010, e inaugura una colaboración que contempla la futura publicación de más títulos. En este libro Gallego ilustra cómo los procedimientos electorales, los sistemas de partidos y los medios de comunicación, así como el sindicalismo y la desigualdad de ingresos impactan de forma desigual en la participación política, un problema central en el sistema democrático que no se ha estudiado convenientemente en los últimos treinta años.

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• Verlag: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 110702353X
• ISBN 13: 9781107023536
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 235