TY - BOOK ID - 5165697 TI - Political participation and democracy in Britain AU - Parry, Geraint AU - Moyser, George AU - Day, Neil PY - 1992 SN - 0521332982 0521336023 0511558724 9780521336024 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Political participation KW - Participation politique KW - #SBIB:328H214 KW - Instellingen en beleid: Verenigd Koninkrijk KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Political participation - Great Britain. KW - Political rights KW - Civic rights KW - Civil rights KW - Citizenship KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5165697 AB - Why do some people involve themselves in politics and others not? Which issues are they concerned with? What do they get out of it? Answering such questions is fundamental to understanding political life and the workings of liberal democracies. This book presents the results of one of the most extensive surveys ever undertaken on the levels and patterns of political involvement in Britain. It is based on the findings of a sample survey of nearly 1,600 people across England, Scotland and Wales as well as a further 1,600 men and women and nearly 300 leaders in six specially selected and contrasting communities. These people were asked about the extent to which they had taken political action, particularly at a local level, and the authors found higher levels of participation than previous research has revealed. They analyse these findings in terms of age, gender, social class and education and look at the reactions of local leaders to the efforts people make to influence them. ER -