POLS 120 Lecture 3: POLS 120 Comparative Politics Intro
4 Sep 2015
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Interest in articulation and political participation. Wednesday, september 2, 2015. 9:06 am: interest articulation and political participation. By individuals or organized groups. Individuals, organized groups, latent groups. Organized groups make it more threatening. People who feel the air is polluted. How do these groups then take actions. Voting, direct contacts, protests, consumer action, online activism. What affects rates of participation i. Individual attributes, political resources, social networks, costs of effort. How open is a regime to voluntary participation in political life. Unequal distribution of political resources a. Better- off participation at higher rates in political life everywhere. But lower- cost forms of participation have higher rates, lower inequality. Voting trumps money a. b. c. d. e. a. b. c. d. Large non- organized group with common identity. Interest that can be politically mobilized. Small group with personal ties i. ii. iii. Small group with personal ties iii.
