Citizens and Democracy in Europe - Sergio Martini, Mario Quaranta

Citizens and Democracy in Europe

Contexts, Changes and Political Support
Buch | Hardcover
XIV, 242 Seiten
2019 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-21632-0 (ISBN)
74,89 inkl. MwSt

This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of how attitudes towards democracy and political institutions differ across 31 countries in Europe, and how these attitudes have fluctuated over time. After addressing conceptual and measurement issues about the evaluative dimension of political support, the authors develop a unique framework assessing the role of the institutional format, the quality of the political process, macro-economic conditions and inequality to explain trends and differences in political satisfaction and trust. The book further explores how education, employment and electoral status create gaps in political support. Citizens and Democracy in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars in comparative politics, political sociology and public opinion.

Sergio Martini is a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Political Change in the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Siena, Italy. Mario Quaranta is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento, Italy.

1. Introduction: Political Support in Flux.- PART I. Conceptual Framework.- 2. Political Support as an Evaluation.- PART II. Context-level Explanations.- 3. Contextual Theories of Political Support.- 4. Changes over time and country differences.- 5. Explaining political support in context.- PART III. Individual-level Explanations.- 6. Individual Theories and the Role of Context.- 7. Gaps over Time and Across Countries.- 8. Explaining Gaps in Context.- 9. Conclusion: Changes and Political Support: What is the Role of Context?

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Zusatzinfo XIV, 242 p. 28 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 433 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte comparative longitudinal survey data analysis • Comparative Study of Electoral Systems • cross-national differences • cultural theories • Democracy • economic performance • education gap • employment status gap • European Social Survey • European Values Study • evaluating political support • individual heterogeneities • Inequality • institutional structure • Legitimacy crisis • Micro-macro interaction • Political support • Quality of Government • satisfaction with democracy • trust in institutions
ISBN-10 3-030-21632-2 / 3030216322
ISBN-13 978-3-030-21632-0 / 9783030216320
Zustand Neuware
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