Political Disaffection

Wright, James

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“…A number of factors can be symptomatic of this orientation. First, a decline in the level of people's faith in public authorities to run the country in the interest of all can have a negative impact on citizens' motivation to protest (see for instance Muller 1979;Miller 1974aMiller , 1974bWright 1981;Barnes, Kaase et al 1979;Kaase 1989;Topf 1995). Thus, according to relative deprivation or grievance theory, those who trust the government less are more likely to feel alienated or at least disaffected and hence more prone to protest.…”

Section: The Extent Of Political Involvement Alienation and Mobilizamentioning

confidence: 95%

“…People may feel under-served, neglected, or exploited (that is, deprived relative to more privileged members of society, or relative to what they feel they deserve) by the political system and its institutions. As the literature on the subject indicates (see Wright 1981;Chanley et al 2000), people distrustful of government and political leaders considered to be corrupt, with low to no confidence in political institutions, dissatisfied with the incumbent regime and who rate the political system low, are more likely to feel politically alienated and therefore more prone to protest.…”

Section: Explaining Protest Participation In Indiamentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The term "political alienation" has been the subject of a prolonged controversy without any resolution (seeWright 1981). Part of the confusion surrounding the term has to do with the fact, as Finifter pointed out, is the failure to distinguish between political alienation as behavior and attitude.…”

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Exploring Protest Participation in India: Evidence from the 1996 World Values Survey

Dutt¹,

Spehr²

2004

Afr Asian Stud

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This paper presents evidence from survey data related to the extent, nature and source of protest participation in India. We examine three models of such activity extensively employed in a western context -the alienation, resource and mobilization models. While we find some evidence for their general applicability, especially in regard to mobilization, many of the most central explanatory variables associated with these models -age, education, urban/rural residence, political trust, acceptance of the present political system, confidence in political institutions and to a lesser extent, gender, reveal associations with protest that are contrary to theoretical expectations. This suggests the necessity for modifying existing theories of unconventional political participation when and if employed in a non-western setting.

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Section: The Extent Of Political Involvement Alienation and Mobilizamentioning

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Section: Explaining Protest Participation In Indiamentioning

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Exploring Protest Participation in India: Evidence from the 1996 World Values Survey

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2004

Afr Asian Stud

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“…For problems in measuring and assessing the influence of different dimensions of political support, see Weatherford 1992 andWright 1981. 22. For problems in measuring and assessing the influence of different dimensions of political support, see Weatherford 1992 andWright 1981. 22.…”

Section: An Alternative Overlapping Consensusmentioning

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Rawls's “Political” Philosophy and American Democracy

Klosko

1993

Am Polit Sci Rev

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ohn Rawls has recently argued that political philosophy can significantly contribute to making democratic societies stable. He seeks moral principles that can ground what he calls an overlapping consensus and argues that his well-known principles of justice can serve in this capacity. I criticize both Rawls's general claims about the role of political philosophy and his particular defense of the principles of justice. Both arguments commit Rawls to specific empirical claims about existing liberal societies that are highly questionable. In particular, the Kantian moral views that Rawls believes to be central to liberal culture are controverted by extensive empirical research on the actual beliefs of liberal citizens. Despite the problems with Rawls's arguments, I suggest that a rather different overlapping consensus appears to contribute to stable democracies. This centers on support of the political system rather than more substantive moral principles.

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“…The characterization of an alienated, hostile listening audience was propelled into the popular imagination in the late 1980s by the politically motivated murder of Denver talk host Alan Berg and the dark, fictionalized account of the medium in the movie, talk radio. This audience resembled the alienated in classical themes (Seeman 1959;Levin 1960;Lipset 1960;Finifter 1970;and Wright 1981). One study speculated that the critical character of a television special created a political "malaise" (Robinson 1976).…”

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