Recreation and Participation: Testing the Political Impact of Social Interaction
Recreation and Participation: Testing the Political Impact of Social Interaction
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娱乐与参与:测试社会互动的政治影响
DOI:
10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00849.x
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
and Sean Richey
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作者:
Ikeda;Ken’ichi;Tetsuro Kobayashi;and Sean Richey
ObjectivesWe research the political impact of human social interaction. Some scholars suggest that recreational or other informal interaction may promote political participation. Informal recreational interaction is proposed to be beneficial because it increases activity in more serious political participation.MethodsTo test these ideas, we use new nationally representative survey data from seven East Asian nations using Poisson regression models.ResultsWe show that informal social interaction and nonpolitical voluntary activity do increase political participation.ConclusionsEven though the recreation may begin as a nonpolitical activity, we show that it may spark later political participation.