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Unequal Political Participation Worldwide

By Professor Aina Gallego

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
110702353X, 9781107023536
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2366034 bytes)
Pages
245\254
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-05-23 11:07:19
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Description

Highly educated citizens vote at much lower rates than less educated citizens in some countries. By contrast, electoral participation exhibits no such bias in other countries as diverse as Spain, Denmark, and South Korea. This book describes the levels of unequal participation in thirty-six countries worldwide, examines possible causes of this phenomenon, and discusses its consequences. Aina Gallego illustrates how electoral procedures, party and media systems, unionization, and income inequality impact unequal participation through an original combination of cross-national survey data and survey experiments.

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