Naslov
Isocratic Quest:Patterns of Participatory Inequality in New and Old European Democracies

Autori
Širinić, Daniela

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, magistarski rad

Fakultet
Department of Political Science

Mjesto
Budimpešta, Mađarska

Datum
18.06

Godina
2009

Stranica
95

Mentor
Carsten Q. Schneider

Ključne riječi
Quality of Democracy; Participatory Inequality

Sažetak
The present thesis attempts to develop further tools for critical assessment of the quality of existing democratic regimes. As the countries with longer democratic tradition are regarded as having a higher quality than the neo democracies, the main goal of this thesis will be to assess the QoD in the countries with different length of democratic experience, that is Netherlands, Ireland, Poland and Slovenia. The assessment is conducted by describing their differences according to the inequalities in political participation. More precisely, this is done by using participatory distortion, the measure of political inequality developed by Verba, Brady and Schlozman (1995). Empirical analysis is conducted on the European Social Survey Module III dataset. The model is developed to test the input of participatory process by relating the types of political participation to the politically relevant characteristics (age, gender, education and income). Results of the analysis reveal following patterns of participatory distortion: women are found to be under-represented across most of the types of participation in all of the countries analyzed ; age is found to be the category with significantly more distortions than gender and significant distortions were found for two age groups: young and old. Furthermore, it has been found that the low educated individuals are the most under-represented category of all of the categories analyzed. Second part of the empirical analysis introduces overall measure of participatory distortion calculated for every country from Logged Representation Scale. Ireland was found to be the country with least disproportionate participatory public and therefore the one that has achieved the highest level of political equality among the countries analyzed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Politologija

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