A conceptual map of political participation

• Published in: Acta politica Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 349 - 367
• Main Author: van Deth, Jan W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.07.2014; Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Comparative Politics; Democracy; European Politics; Participation; Political Science; Political Science and International Relations; Political Science and International Studies; Politics; Social research; Symposium; participation; concept formation; engagement; democracy

How would you recognize a mode of participation if you see one? Owing to the rapid expansion of political activities in the last decades this question has become increasingly difficult to answer. Neither the development of all-embracing nominal definitions, nor deductive analyses of existing modes o...