In the last decade, young people have been seen as the major suspects behind declining turnout rates, the desertion of parties grass roots members, a rising anti-party sentiment and the decline of associative life in Western democracies. For this reason, there is a renewed interest in how young...

While it is well documented that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics, it is an open question how this finding bears on the evaluation of the democratic process with respect to its fairness. In this paper we draw on the analytical tools developed in the...

Current thinking about the effect of religion on political participation centers on its organizational structure, emphasizing the role of “institutional treatment” – the development of resources, social pathways to recruitment, and shaping of motivation that occurs in small groups and...