This article explores differences in the pattern of political participation between immigrants
and the majority population in Western Europe. Using data from the European Social …

What are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features?
To what extent can street citizens be seen as a force driving social and political change …

This article investigates the nature of the relationship between associational involvement
and migrant political participation. We explore the extent to which empirical evidence …

Political trust has for a long time been understood as closely intertwined with civic culture1
and people's social interactions. In Almond and Verba's The Civic Culture (1963) political …

Una profonda trasformazione politica e sociale ha investito il nostro paese negli ultimi
vent'anni. Un cambiamento che non poteva non coinvolgere il mondo dell'associazionismo …

Within the social capital literature it is often assumed that membership of voluntary
associations causes generalized social trust and not the other way around. This study …

This article analyses the capacity of radical right parties to attract support from union
members in recent elections in Western Europe. It is argued that unionized voters resist the …

This article challenges the current research on youth disengagement by asking what makes
young people active in different political organisations. It applies the classic civic voluntarism …

Although very different types of voluntary associations are often lumped together in (cross-
national) analyses, we argue that scholars should distinguish between types of associations …

From a theoretical viewpoint, the consequences of social capital for norms of citizenship are
usually perceived as benign. However, empirical evidence indicates that its impact may be …