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Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research 3/2016

18.01.2015

An Apathetic Generation? Cohorts’ Patterns of Political Participation in Italy

verfasst von: Mario Quaranta

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 3/2016

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Abstract

This article assesses the patterns of political participation of different cohorts in two forms of conventional political participation, attending political parties meetings and donating money to political parties, and in two forms of unconventional political participation, attending meetings of environmental, peace and civil rights associations and attending demonstrations, in Italy. To test the claim that the younger cohorts are less politically involved the article uses Bayesian cross-classified mixed models and repeated survey data collected by the Italian National Institute of Statistics between 1993 and 2012. It is found that the conventional forms of participation are more widespread among “baby-boomers” than among the younger cohorts. Conversely, unconventional forms are increasingly popular in the cohorts born after the 1950s, particularly in the younger ones. The results show that the idea of the Italian younger cohorts as being apathetic and detached from the political sphere may be incorrect.
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1
In 2004 the survey was not held. Respondents selected are between 18 and 85 years old.
 
2
See Teorell et al. (2007) and Dalton (2008) for typologies or classifications of political participation.
 
3
This indicator includes subscriptions and donations.
 
4
The questions ask whether the respondent has engaged in each form of participation in the last 12 months prior to the interview.
 
5
A similar categorization is used by Caren et al. (2010).
 
6
The latter category includes unemployed, homemakers, students and retired respondents.
 
7
The latter category includes unmarried, separated, divorced and widowed respondents.
 
8
North-west includes: Piemonte, Valle d’Aosta, Liguria, Lombardia; North-east includes: Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna; Centre includes: Toscana, Umbria, Marche, Lazio; South includes: Abruzzo, Molise, Campania, Puglia, Basilicata, Calabria; Islands includes: Sicilia and Sardegna. The NUTS1 classification is followed.
 
9
As the random effects work on the logistic scale this prior is sufficiently uninformative. Changing it does not affect the results.
 
10
The models are estimated using Jags (Plummer 2012), Gibbs sampling run for 250,000 iterations with a burn-in period of 50,000 iterations, which are thinned by a factor of 10, and two chains. Several diagnostics were used to assess the convergence of the samplers (see Jackman 2009).
 
11
The only surveys which date back to the 1980s are the European Values Study or the World Values Survey. Nevertheless, they have few points in time and small samples. Other surveys, such as the Eurobarometer series, contain few indicators measuring conventional and unconventional participation across time.
 
12
As a robustness check the models are run using micro-cohorts of 3 years instead of 5 years and using age divided in 7 categories instead of 3. The findings are very similar to those presented here. The strategy shown in this article, however, is more efficient. Indeed, using variables with more categories increases the number of the unique combinations of the covariates. This implies that the convergence of the chains would be much slower.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
An Apathetic Generation? Cohorts’ Patterns of Political Participation in Italy
verfasst von
Mario Quaranta
Publikationsdatum
18.01.2015
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 3/2016
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-015-0869-x

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