Participation and Political Equality: A Seven-Nation Comparison / Edition 1

by Sidney Verba

Overview

In this survey of political participation in seven nations—Nigeria, Austria, Japan, India, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, and the United States—the authors examine the relationship between social, economic, and educational factors and political participation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226852980
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	08/15/1987
Edition description:	1
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Sidney Verba is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor of government at Harvard University. Norman H. Nie is professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Comparing participatory systems
3. The modes of democratic participation
4. The puzzle
5. Individual propensities and institutional constraints: a model
6. Parties and organizations
7. Individual and institutional forces: the model applied
8. Some variations on our model: parties of the left and right
9. Social segmentation and political equality: expectations
10. Social segmentation and political equality: application
11. Party and participation in Yugoslavia
12. Men and women: sex-related differences in political activity
13. The community context of participation
14. Stratification and politics: some consequences
Appendixes
A. The modes of participation
B. Construction of scales
C. Sampling design, sample weights, and data base of basic tables
Bibliography
List of publications and reports: Cross-National Program in Participation
Index

Editorial Reviews

'Most impressive is the quality of thought displayed throughout … the book could be recommended as a tour de force of the intellect, quite apart from the subject matter it treats.' Dr David Abernethy, Stanford University

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