Title

The Modes Of Participation Revisited, 1980-2004

Abstract

In a series of publications, Verba and Nie and their coauthors argued that participatory acts vary along a number of dimensions, and that acts having similar dimensional profiles would constitute distinct modes of participation (Verba and Nie 1972; Verba, Nie, and Kim 1971, 1978; Verba, et al., 1973). In the realm of electoral participation, these investigators postulated two modes, voting and campaigning. Campaigning was thought to encompass a variety of behaviors, including working for a candidate or party, trying to persuade someone how to vote, and making a campaign contribution. A new dimensional typology, presented here, predicts that working in a campaign and contributing to political actors constitute separate modes of participation. We confirm these predictions by performing confirmatory factor analyses of participation items from the 1980-2004 American National Election Studies. We also find that vote persuasion is best modeled as a measure of political discussion.

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Publication Title

Political Research Quarterly

Volume

59

Issue

4

Number of Pages

593-600

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1177/106591290605900408

Socpus ID

33846626496 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33846626496

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