Sources of Local Political Involvement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4846801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert R Alford, Harry M Scoble (University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1192-1206 |
| Publication date | 1968-12-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/1953912 |
| OpenAlex | W2316287472 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 13 |
Despite the legal norm of universal adult citizenship in the United States, and thus the legitimacy of participation by all strata of society, the actual level of political involvement in local communities is not high and differs greatly from group to group. Our task here is to spell out some of the conditions of group membership which contribute to local political involvement. Our broader purpose is to argue the need to re-expand the theoretical framework for analysis of political participation and thus to correct the present imbalanced focus upon participation as an individual act.Thus we shall examine some structural, rather than psychological, conditions of local political involvement. In this we shall occasionally use some measures previously reported in other studies and conventionally regarded as tapping psychological attributes of individuals; but these we shall regard as defining sets of role-expectations or as locating categories of persons placed within a certain range of normative obligations; and, more importantly, we shall systematically compare the net effect (upon local political involvement) of such variables with that of the more conventionally defined structural variables
Citizenship · Legitimacy · Norm (philosophy · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spell · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
Homeownership and Politics
Social Interaction and Contextual Influences On Political Participation
The social benefits of homeownership
Mass Political Participation in The U.S. and the U.S.S.R
Voluntary Associations and Political Equality
Low Income and Minority Group Participation in Administrative Processes
The Impact of Religiosity on Political Participation and Membership in Voluntary Associations Among Black and White Americans
Civic Engagement From a Communication Infrastructure Perspective
Occupational differences and the division of labor in political party activities
NGOs, Turnout, and the Left
The social and private micro-level consequences of homeownership
The Ecology of Empowerment
Social Participation and Voting Turnout
Does the Shoe Fit
Governing Nonprofits and Local Political Processes
Group Membership and the Mobilization of Political Participation
Attitudes, Opportunities and Incentives
The Recruitment of Local Decision-Makers in Five Canadian Cities
Metropolis, Memory, and Citizenship
Foreign-Born Voting Behavior in Local Elections
Aged Communities and Political Knowledge
The Status of Tenants in the United States
The tenants' movement in the United States
Participation, Political Structure, and Concurrence
Racial Differences in Protest Participation
Home Ownership and Political Participation in Urban China
Homeownership and Social Attachment
Urbanism as a Way of Life
Political Efficacy
Voluntary Association Membership and Political Participation
Community Storytelling Network, Neighborhood Context, and Civic Engagement
Introduction to Mathematical Sociology
Political Participation
Voting in a Metropolitan Community
The Differential Distribution of Community Knowledge
Occupational Mobility and Membership in Formal Voluntary Associations
Community Leadership, Education, and Political Behavior
Social Theory and Social Structure
Social Mobility and Interpersonal Relations
Social Participation and Status Crystallization
Identification of Social Areas by Cluster Analysis
Machine Politics
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2015 (44) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |