The repertoire of political participation in democratic societies is expanding rapidly and
covers such different activities as voting, demonstrating, volunteering, boycotting, blogging …

The dissemination of citizen participation in policymaking has increased considerably
worldwide, as in the case of participatory budgeting, considered as the best-known …

Online petitions are an important feature of contemporary political engagement in advanced
democracies. In this paper we report on a unique data set–covering a five year period and …

Scholars have recognized that a recent increase in the ways citizens participate beyond the
electoral arena may be a promising avenue of renewal for citizen participation. In this article …

Political participation is frequently defined as either being conventional or unconventional.
This distinction is based on dualistic thinking. Participation is likened to other dualisms, such …

This article analyses the political dimension of volunteering in the context of austerity. It
explores how the economic recession and the austerity measures taken by governments in …

Political consumerism refers to citizens' use of boycotting and buycotting as they seek to
influence political outcomes within the marketplace rather than through more traditional …

ABSTRACT A series of authors including ourselves have argued that there is a dominant, if
contested, political tradition (the BPT), that is a particular conception of democracy, that …

Sociological debates on youth engagement with electoral politics play out against a
backdrop of supposed 'decline'in civic participation (eg Putnam, Norris,), in turn …

Contemporary political systems are experiencing a democratic disconnect between formal
institutions of representative government, and the more informal spaces of political …