Aktivní občanství a spokojenost s demokracií v Evropě

• Authors: Vlachova K. , Lebeda T.

Title variants

EN

ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND SATISFACTION WITH DEMOCRACY IN EUROPE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

In this article the authors describe what forms of political participation, outside the electoral process, the populations of twenty-one European countries tend to employ and to what degree. They identify three types of non-electoral political participation: active-conventional, active-demonstrational, and passive participation. Overall non-electoral political participation is considerably lower in the post-communist and Mediterranean countries than in the Western European and Scandinavian countries. In the latter countries the passive type of political participation is clearly a much stronger form of participation than the other two types. Conversely, in the Mediterranean countries passive participation is weaker and is exceeded in places by the active-conventional type of participation. The Mediterranean area is also notable for the unusually strong presence of the active-demonstrational type of participation. The authors also examine the social micro and macro-conditions related to these three types of political participation. In conclusion they attempt to address the question of whether there is a connection between political activity and satisfaction with the way democracy works.

Keywords

EN

CITIZENSHIP; DEMOCRACY; EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 11-34
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vlachova K.

author

Lebeda T.

• K. Vlachova, Sociologicky ustav AV CR, Jilska 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06CZAAAA01312959