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Homo Civicus vs. Homo Politicus: Why Some People Vote But Not Others

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미래정치연구소 (Korea Institute for Future Politics)|2017.02|미래정치연구 (JOURNAL OF FUTURE POLITICS)|제7권 제1호|pp. 61-85|DOI 10.20973/jofp.2017.7.1.61

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투표율정치참여투표참여Voter Turnoutpolitical Participation

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Who participates in politics? To answer this question, I discuss what makes citizens get more involved in voting because voting is the most prominent form of political participation as well as one of the fundamental acts of democratic politics. In this paper, I examine the various determinants of voter turnout based on the existing literature at both the aggregate and individual levels. The existing literature suggests that both a citizen’s characteristics and the political context will shape voter participation. While a citizen’s socioeconomic status, costs of casting a ballot, or civic duty affect her voting participation, there are pivotal contextual features such as social pressure, social preference, or neighboring effect which enable or impede voter participation. Interestingly, a new perspective argues that human genes are also an important factor in affecting voting participation. In this paper, I argue that we may expand the scope of research on political participation by combining insights from both the individual and aggregate levels.

Abstract

Who participates in politics? To answer this question, I discuss what makes citizens get more involved in voting because voting is the most prominent form of political participation as well as one of the fundamental acts of democratic politics. In this paper, I examine the various determinants of voter turnout based on the existing literature at both the aggregate and individual levels. The existing literature suggests that both a citizen’s characteristics and the political context will shape voter participation. While a citizen’s socioeconomic status, costs of casting a ballot, or civic duty affect her voting participation, there are pivotal contextual features such as social pressure, social preference, or neighboring effect which enable or impede voter participation. Interestingly, a new perspective argues that human genes are also an important factor in affecting voting participation. In this paper, I argue that we may expand the scope of research on political participation by combining insights from both the individual and aggregate levels.

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