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Combining a strong theoretical approach with empirical findings across multiple countries, this book does an excellent job in enhancing our understanding of nonelectoral political participation, a very important political phenomenon. The author builds on earlier works such as micro level explanations of political participation, institutions, or political culture but enriches our understanding of cross-country differences by adding that a crucial national characteristic, a political system that exhibits inclusiveness combined with contestation, will have a profound effect on participation.

Zsolt Nyiri, Montclair State University, USA

A highly needed and very original contribution to our understanding of cross-national variations in political participation. The sophisticated empirical analyses of the interplay between individual, institutional, and cultural factors are just as convincing as Vrblkovs thoughtful discussions of the implications for normative democratic theories.

Jan W. van Deth, University of Mannheim, Germany

What Kind of Democracy? shows how institutional and social contexts shape the level of protest activity across contemporary democracies. Vrblkov also offers an astute discussion of how democracies can create contexts to expand citizen participation beyond elections, and the implications that follow from a more engaged citizenry.

Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine, USA

Vrblkov crafted a challenging account of nonelectoral participation. Pitting the traditional inclusive consensus perspective on democracy against her inclusive contestation perspective she develops a new approach to democracy. Building on evidence from the ISSP and the ESS she shows that nonelectoral participation is stimulated by factors included from the contestation model but not by factors from the consensus model. All this is written in a clear style. Highly recommended.

Bert Klandermans, VU-University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

What Kind of Democracy?

The broad expansion of nonelectoral political participation is considered one of the major changes in the nature of democratic citizenship in the twenty-first century. Most scholars but also governments, transnational and subnational political institutions, and various foundations have adopted the notion that contemporary democratic societies need a more politically active citizenry. Yet, contemporary democracies differ widely in the extent to which their citizens are involved in politics beyond voting. Why is political activism other than voting flourishing in the United States, but less common in Britain, and almost non-existent in post-communist countries like Bulgaria? The book shows that the answer does not lie in citizens predispositions, social capital, or institutions of consensual democracy. Instead, the key to understanding cross-country differences in political activism beyond voting rests in democratic structures that combine inclusiveness and contestation.

What Kind of Democracy? is the first book to provide a theoretically driven, empirical analysis of how different types of democratic arrangements affect individual participation in nonelectoral politics.

Kateina Vrblkov is Lecturer and the Chair of Political Science and International Comparative Social Research at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Her research and teaching focuses on political participation, political attitudes and values, social movements, and research methods.

Conceptualizing Comparative Politics: Polities, Peoples, and Markets
Edited by Anthony Spanakos (Montclair State University) and Francisco Panizza (London School of Economics)

Conceptualizing Comparative Politics seeks to bring a distinctive approach to comparative politics by rediscovering the disciplines rich conceptual tradition and interdisciplinary foundations. It aims to fill out the conceptual framework on which the rest of the subfield draws, but to which books only sporadically contribute, and to complement theoretical and conceptual analysis by applying it to deeply explored case studies. The series publishes books that make serious inquiry into fundamental concepts in comparative politics (crisis, legitimacy, credibility, representation, institutions, civil society, reconciliation) through theoretically engaging and empirically deep analysis.

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2. From Religious Empires to Secular States
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3. The Politics of Governance
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4. Conceptualizing Comparative Politics
Edited by Anthony Petros Spanakos and Francisco Panizza

5. Migration Governance across Regions
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Ana Margheritis

6. What Kind of Democracy?
Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation
Kateina Vrblkov

What Kind of Democracy?

Participation, Inclusiveness and Contestation

Kateina Vrblkov

First published 2017
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Vrblkov Kateina, author.
Title: What kind of democracy? : participation, inclusiveness and contestation / Kateina Vrblkov.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016008115| ISBN 9781138653764 (hbk) | ISBN 9781315623603 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Political participationCross-cultural studies. | Social movementsPolitical aspectsCross-cultural studies. | Political cultureCross-cultural studies. | DemocracyCross-cultural studies.
Classification: LCC JF799 .V73 2016 | DDC 321.8dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016008115

ISBN: 978-1-138-65376-4(hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62360-3(ebk)

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Contents

Modern democracies must have elections, but elections are insufficient to characterize democracy. Elections are important because they offer regular and, purportedly, fair channels for citizen participation in politics, in which each citizen casts a ballot with the same normative value (though sometimes the weight given through proportional representation or over/ underrepresentation of certain districts makes the decisive weight of the ballot different). It is in the equal participation in decision-making for citizens that elections are democratic. But elections alone do not ensure responsiveness to the will of the citizens. For this, we need political participation, and most political participation in democracies does not occur in elections. Moreover, nonelectoral political participation varies considerably even between countries of similar level of socioeconomic development.

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