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How Context Matters? Mobilization, Political Opportunity Structures and Non-Electoral Political Participation in Old and New Democracies
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SYSNO ASEP 0432343 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title How Context Matters? Mobilization, Political Opportunity Structures and Non-Electoral Political Participation in Old and New Democracies Author(s) Vráblíková, Kateřina (SOU-Z) RID, ORCID Source Title Comparative Political Studies. - : Sage - ISSN 0010-4140
Roč. 47, č. 2 (2014), s. 203-229Number of pages 27 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CA - Canada Keywords Political participation ; political opportunity structure ; national institutions Subject RIV AD - Politology ; Political Sciences R&D Projects GAP408/12/1474 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support SOU-Z - RVO:68378025 UT WOS 000329485400003 DOI 10.1177/0010414013488538 Annotation Scholars have long argued that political participation is determined by institutional context. Within the voter turnout literature the impact of various institutional structures has been demonstrated in numerous studies. Curiously, a similar context driven research agenda exploring the correlates of non-electoral participation has not received the same attention. This study addresses this lacuna by testing a political opportunity structure model of citizen activism across 24 old and new democracies using ISSP (2004) data. Employing a multilevel modeling approach, this study tests a competition versus consensus conception of how decentralized institutions determine non-electoral participation. This research demonstrates that states with more competitive veto points operating through systems of horizontal and territorial decentralization increases individual non-electoral participation. More specifically, it interacts with social mobilization networks to promote greater citizen activism: institutional context counts only when citizens are mobilized. Workplace Institute of Sociology Contact Eva Nechvátalová, eva.nechvatalova@soc.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 220 924 / linka 351 Year of Publishing 2015
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