What Kind of Democracy?

Vráblíková, Kateřina

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“…While empirical large-N survey research on political behavior has focused predominantly on the act of voting, scholars began paying close attention to diverse acts of political participation beyond the electoral arena already in the 1970s (e.g., Barnes & Kaase, 1979;Verba & Nie, 1972). Subsequent research has affirmed the increased prevalence over time of nonelectoral participation in a variety of political acts and in diverse contexts (e.g., Albacete, 2014;Copeland & Boulianne, 2020;Dalton, 2008Dalton, , 2015Giugni & Grasso, 2018;Grasso, 2016;Ohme et al, 2018;Oser & Boulianne, 2020;Schlozman et al, 2018;Theocharis & van Deth, 2018;van Deth, 2020;Verba et al, 1995;Vráblíková, 2014Vráblíková, , 2016. The increased prevalence of political participation beyond the electoral arena highlights the importance of developing theories and research designs that consider how individuals combine the full range of political behavior in their personal repertoires of participation-from the most common act of voting, to the relatively rare act of protest.…”

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Protest as One Political Act in Individuals’ Participation Repertoires: Latent Class Analysis and Political Participant Types

Oser

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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This study advances research on the role of protest in individual-level participation repertoires by examining how latent class analysis can be used to identify distinctive types of political participants. This methodological approach requires shifting researchers’ traditional theoretical and analytical focus on protest as a single political act to the ways in which political actors combine protest with other political behaviors. From a theoretical perspective, the study examines the increased salience of research on the causes and consequences of protest in the context of individuals’ broader participation repertoires. From a methodological perspective, an illustrative analysis is conducted using the 2016 American National Election Studies survey to test theoretical expectations about the relationship between protest and civic duty. The study concludes with a discussion of how latent class analysis can be used to advance research on protest as one political act in individuals’ broader repertories of political participation.

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Protest as One Political Act in Individuals’ Participation Repertoires: Latent Class Analysis and Political Participant Types

Oser

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…Through this lens, democratic participation might entail as much a burden as it might entail an emancipatory promise. Hence, in this special issue we have explored changing repertoires of political participation 19 and have scrutinized their understandings of and impacts on democracy and the democratic project.…”

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Between empowerment and abuse: citizen participation beyond the post-democratic turn

Butzlaff

2020

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In this special issue on "Democratization beyond the Post-Democratic Turn. Political Participation between Empowerment and Abuse", we have explored changing understandings of participation in contemporary Western representative democracies through the analytical lens of the concept of the post-democratic-turn. We have investigated technology-based, market-based, and expert-led innovations that claim to enhance democratic participation and to provide policy legitimation. In this concluding article, I revisit the cases made by the individual contributors and analyse how shifting notions of participation alter dominant understandings of democracy. I carve out how new and emerging ideas of participation are based on different understandings of political subjectivity; furthermore, how constantly rising democratic expectations and simultaneously increasing scepticism with regard to democratic processes and institutions point to a growing democratic ambivalence within Western societies. Making use of Dahl's conceptualization of democracy, in this article, I review changing understandings of participation in light of their contribution to further democratization. The article shows how under postdemocratic conditions the simulative performance of autonomy and subjectivity has become central to democratic participation. It emphasizes that what in established perspectives on democratization might appear as an abuse of participation, through the lens of a post-democratic-turn might be perceived as emancipatory and liberating.

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“…Some analysts decry the decline in voting turnout and the erosion of civil society activity (Patterson, 2003; Putnam, 2000; Wattenberg, 2015). At the same time, participation in other forms of direct or assertive participation appears to be increasing (Dalton, 2017; Quaranta, 2016; Vráblíková, 2014).…”

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“…Other types of direct action and online activism have also increased. The result is an expansion of political participation along with a diffusion in the forms of participation (Dalton, 2017; Vráblíková, 2014). In theoretical terms, a more involved public should be beneficial to good governance.…”

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Political Action, Protest, and the Functioning of Democratic Governance

Dalton

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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The current debate on the vitality of affluent democracies often cites the changing patterns of citizens’ political participation as signs of this malaise. Fewer citizens are voting, and more are turning toward contentious and more direct forms of participation. What are the consequences? I describe the participation patterns in affluent democracies and then consider whether these changes in citizen participation are linked to the quality of democratic performance. Some scholars see a more assertive public as overloading the political system or destroying collective views of politics. Others see contentious politics as giving citizens an additional and more effective method of influencing policymakers. The evidence on citizen participation comes from two waves of the International Social Survey Program. Measures of the functioning of government come from the Economist Intelligence Unit and the World Bank. The analyses show that a more active public is correlated with a better functioning government. Moreover, these relationships are stronger for protest and other forms of direct action than for voting in national elections. The results suggest that an assertive and elite-challenging public is more of a boon than a curse for democratic politics.

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What Kind of Democracy?

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Protest as One Political Act in Individuals’ Participation Repertoires: Latent Class Analysis and Political Participant Types

Protest as One Political Act in Individuals’ Participation Repertoires: Latent Class Analysis and Political Participant Types

Between empowerment and abuse: citizen participation beyond the post-democratic turn

Political Action, Protest, and the Functioning of Democratic Governance

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