To Participate or Not to Participate: The Link Between Survey Participation, Electoral Participation, and Political Interest
To Participate or Not to Participate: The Link Between Survey Participation, Electoral Participation, and Political Interest
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参与还是不参与：调查参与、选举参与和政治利益之间的联系
作者：
R. Voogt;W. Saris
调查参与、选举参与和政治兴趣在研究文献中得到了广泛的关注，但迄今为止还没有人将这三个变量结合在一个模型中。以社会孤立假设为出发点，我们开发了一个模型，其中一个因素，社会参与，作为这三种参与类型的共同因素。我们回顾了文献，并得出结论，我们必须包括第二个潜在因素：对社会的依恋。使用一个新的数据集，收集在1998年荷兰全国大选之际，包括验证选民投票率的措施，我们能够测试模型。经过一些调整后，我们找到了一个令人满意的模型。结果表明，通过包括社会参与和依恋社会作为中介变量，我们可以达到更高的水平，解释的方差的调查和选举参与比我们可以与传统的模型。调查结果亦加深了我们对调查与选举参与和政治兴趣之间关系的理解。
Survey participation, electoral participation, and political interest have been given wide attention in the research literature, but no one so far has combined these three variables in one model. Taking the social isolation-hypothesis as our starting point, we developed a model with one factor, social involvement, as the common factor underlying these three types of participation. We reviewed the literature and concluded that we had to include a second underlying factor: attachment to society. Using a new data set, gathered on the occasion of the 1998 Dutch national elections and including validated voter turnout measures, we were able to test the model. After making some adaptions, we found a model with a satisfactory fit. The results show that, by including social involvement and attachment to society as mediating variables, we can reach much higher levels of explained variances of survey and electoral participation than we can with traditional models. The results also add to our understanding of the relationship between survey and electoral participation and political interest.