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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Trust, Efficacy and Modes of Political Participation: A Study of Costa Rican Peasants
Contributor:
Seligson, Mitchell A.
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1980
Published in:British Journal of Political Science
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0007123400002015
ISSN:
1469-2112;
0007-1234
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Those who study political participation will find that recent investigations have been lacking neither in scope nor methodological sophistication. Participation, once conceived of in rather narrow terms (usually focusing exclusively on voting) and whose study was restricted to certain geographic areas only (the United States and Western Europe), is now taken to include a wide range of activities across the globe. Similarly, the causal factors of participation have been expanded as well, so that currently they include the social-psychological, socio-economic, demographic, structural, historical and cultural. Nevertheless, despite the abundance of inquiry, little progress has been made in the development of theory.</jats:p>