Voice and Inequality - Boulding, Carew; Holzner, Claudio A
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Understanding who participates in politics and in which kinds of activities is central to understanding how democracies work. This book offers the first large-scale empirical analysis of political participation in 18 Latin American countries, with a focus on understanding the political behavior of the region's poorest citizens. Poor people in Latin America vote, protest and contact government officials at surprisingly high levels, approaching or exceeding levels of activism of individuals with significantly more resources and schooling. To explain this puzzling finding, we argue that key…mehr

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Understanding who participates in politics and in which kinds of activities is central to understanding how democracies work. This book offers the first large-scale empirical analysis of political participation in 18 Latin American countries, with a focus on understanding the political behavior of the region's poorest citizens. Poor people in Latin America vote, protest and contact government officials at surprisingly high levels, approaching or exceeding levels of activism of individuals with significantly more resources and schooling. To explain this puzzling finding, we argue that key institutions of democracy including civil society, political parties, and competitive party systems are especially important for understanding the activism of poorer citizens and, as a result, have profound effects on inequalities in political participation.
Autorenporträt
Carew Boulding is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her first book, NGOs, Political Protest, and Civil Society, explores how the quality of elections affects the role that NGOs and other organizations in civil society have in shaping how people participate. Claudio A. Holzner is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Utah. His first book, Poverty of Democracy: The Institutional Roots of Political Participation in Mexico, examines poor people's political activism during Mexico's transition to democracy.