CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Uhlik, Matej |
|---|---|
| Title | GLADIATORS OF TODAY - POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND ITS STRUCTURAL PREDICTORS IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE |
| Summary | Political participation is a phenomenon, which is studied by political and social scientist for a long time. Many great authors have published their studies about this topic; therefore, some broad theories are several decades old by now. Accordingly, this paper aims to confront the theories with the most contemporary data. To do so, a set of statistical methods is used to analyze the sixth round of the European Social Survey. The data from this dataset are first systemized and run through the latent class analysis to explore the presence of common patterns of political participation across European countries. The results of this analysis are then used as dependent variable for testing the hypotheses against the impact of various structural factors of political system on the political engagement of citizens. The results show, that there indeed is a variance when looking on to what extent people in different countries participate and there seem to be a difference between Western and Eastern countries. Furthermore, stable patterns in modes of participation were found across all but one examined countries. The final analysis of the size of membership in these classes (representing different modes of participation) shows that out of the examined structural variables, the level of urbanization, economic and political development have positive and statistically significant effect on the increase in membership of more active citizens. |
| Supervisor | Littvay, Levente |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/uhlik_matej.pdf |
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