Engaging Citizens: The Role of Power-Sharing Institutions
Engaging Citizens: The Role of Power-Sharing Institutions
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公民参与：权力分享机构的作用
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2010
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Leslie A. Schwindt
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M. C. Kittilson;Leslie A. Schwindt
借鉴已有的比较政治制度理论，我们认为民主制度承载着影响大众态度和行为的重要信息。权力分享的政治制度向公民发出信号，包容性是一个国家民主的重要原则，可以鼓励公民参与政治。我们对来自世界价值观调查的数据应用多层模型，测试了民主制度是否影响34个国家的政治参与。此外，我们研究了代表性不足的群体，特别是妇女，是否受到使用权力分享制度的不同影响，使她们比拥有权力集中制度的国家的妇女更多地参与政治。我们发现，不成比例的选举规则总体上抑制了参与，即使在控制了许多其他因素之后，在比例更大的选举制度中，政治参与的性别差距往往更小。权力分享机构可以……
Drawing on established theories of comparative political institutions, we argue that democratic institutions carry important messages that influence mass attitudes and behaviors. Power-sharing political institutions signal to citizens that inclusiveness is an important principle of a country’s democracy and can encourage citizens to participate in politics. Applying multilevel modeling to data from the World Values Survey, we test whether democratic institutions influence political engagement in 34 countries. Further, we examine whether underrepresented groups, specifically women, are differentially affected by the use of power-sharing institutions such that they are more engaged in politics than women in countries with power-concentrating institutions. We find that disproportional electoral rules dampen engagement overall and that gender gaps in political engagement tend to be smaller in more proportional electoral systems, even after controlling for a host of other factors. Power-sharing institutions ca...