The City and Political Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3595291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C S Fischer (0000-0002-4665-5630, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 559-571 |
| Publication date | 1975-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1959086 |
| OpenAlex | W2111354092 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 31 |
Alternative theories-"social mobilization" and "urban anomie"- predict different relationships between urbanism and political involvement, i.e., that urbanism stimulates, or that urbanism alienates individuals. (Dahl has predicted a curvilinear association.) This study examines these theories using the 1968 Michigan S.R.C. election survey. Three methodological tools are employed- formulating a causal model among political psychological variables, distinguishing size of polity from size of urban area, and using path analysis-to answer three questions: the effect of urbanism, the effect of polity size, and the effect of their interaction. Overall, the results show little independent association be-tween the urban variables and involvement. Trends indicate that largeness may have slight mobilizing effects even though it also slightly reduces sense of political efficacy, and that the mobilization is a shift in involvement from local to national politics. A partial replication is obtained in the Almond and Verba data
Anomie · Economics · Geography · Political mobilization · Political science · Politics · Polity · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Urbanism · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · School Choice and Performance · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Urban Politics and Communality
Political efficacy and Inkatha membership in Kwa‐Mashu
Journalism students
Social pressure, surveillance and community size
Political Participation and Metropolitan Institutional Contexts
Voluntary Organisations and Community Politics
Size and Political Support on the Local Level in Sweden
What if Anything is Wrong with Big Government
On the Adequacy of the Concept of Alienation in Empirical Research
Responsiveness Bias in 51 American Communities
City Size and Civic Involvement in Metropolitan America
Community and Communality in Voting Participation
The metropolitan community.
The human meaning of social change.
The Civic Culture
Quantitative ecological analysis in the social sciences
Political Participation
On Urban Alienations and Anomie
On The Meaning of Alienation
Voting Turnout in American Cities
Urban-Rural Differences and the Process of Political Modernization in Japan
Urban-Rural Differences in Voting Behavior in Postwar Japan
Social Mobilization and Political Development
The City in the Future of Democracy
Social Structure and Political Participation
The Urban-Rural Cleavage in Political Involvement
Dimensions of Political Alienation
Urbanization and Political Participation
French Local Politics
Cross-National Dimensions of Political Competence
Urbanism as a Way of Life
Toward a Subcultural Theory of Urbanism
Social Structure and Individual Political Participation in Five Countries
Context and Consex
Urbanism as a Way of Life
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 2012 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |