Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social EqualityUniversity of Chicago Press, 16. sij 1987. - Broj stranica: 428 Participation in America represents the largest study ever conducted of the ways in which citizens participate in American political life. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie addresses the question of who participates in the American democratic process, how, and with what effects. They distinguish four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity, and interaction with a public official to achieve a personal goal. Using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities, the authors investigate the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation. Recipient of the Kammerer Award (1972), Participation in America provides fundamental information about the nature of American democracy. |
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Participation and Democracy | 1 |
THE PARTICIPATION INPUT | 23 |
How Much? How Widespread? | 25 |
An Overview | 44 |
An Empirical Analysis | 56 |
Their Orientations to Politics | 82 |
Who Are the Activists? | 95 |
A Reconsideration | 102 |
THE CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICIPATION | 265 |
The Role of Social Position and Party | 286 |
I A Measure and Some Data | 299 |
II The Basic Hypotheses | 309 |
III Elaboration and Some | 319 |
Who Gets What and How? | 334 |
Appendix A The Sample Design | 345 |
Descriptions and Frequency Distributions for the Demographic | 363 |
THE PROCESS OF POLITICIZATION | 123 |
Blacks Whites and Participation | 149 |
The Organizational Context of Political Participation | 174 |
Political Parties and Political Participation | 209 |
A Test of Two Models | 229 |
The Record of the Past Two Decades | 248 |
Some Validity Checks | 379 |
A Cluster Analysis | 390 |
Appendix G Some Methodological Notes on Our Use of Parametric | 403 |
Appendix H Description of the Sample of Local Community Leaders | 410 |
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1964 Presidential election Activity level activity rate American Political associated attitudes average blacks and whites campaign activity Chapter citizen-initiated contacts citizenry cluster cluster analysis communal activity communalists community problems complete activists component concurrence score consider cooperative activity correlation disparity effects election electoral expect factor analysis Figure four modes frequency Frequency Distribution governmental group consciousness impact inactive increase individual issues leaders less linear lower-status citizens mean modes of activity modes of participation nomic officials organizational affiliation organizations orientations overall participation parametric statistics participation input participation rate participation score participatory particularized contacting pattern percent political activity political acts political discussion political participation population question race relation relationship responsiveness sample scale Sidney Verba social characteristics social status socioeconomic levels socioeconomic status standard deviation standard socioeconomic model standardized score strong Democrats strong Republicans Table tion types of participators uncorrected upper upper-status citizens Vietnam voluntary associations voters voting specialists