Affiliation:
1. Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva
2. Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield
Abstract
AbstractThis chapter introduces The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. One of the aims of this Handbook is to bring together two research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging research in political sociology and social movement studies, thus further developing the links between the disciplines that have only recently begun to emerge. After delimiting the boundaries of the subject matter by addressing definitional matters, the chapter presents the content of the Handbook by discussing a number of key issues in the study of political participation: how this topic is addressed by different disciplines and from different theoretical arguments; the variety of methodological approaches scholars adopts to study it; the different modes of participation; the role of context; the determinants and process of political participation; its macro-level and micro-level outcomes; and some current trends and future directions