Unequal Political Participation Worldwide

Aina Gallego

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781107023536
• eBook ISBN:
  9781316190692
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Frontmatter
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Unequal Participation Around the World
• 2 Heterogeneous Consequences of Contexts on Participation
• 3 The Difficulty of the Voting Procedure
• 4 Government Fragmentation and Media Systems
• 5 Trade Unions in the Highly Educated Membership Era
• 6 Income Inequality and the Participation of Lower-Status Groups
• 7 Consequences of Unequal Participation for Representation
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index