Jan W. van Deth

In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it. Political Participation in a Changing World will assist both scholars and students of political behaviour to systematically study new forms of political participation without losing track of more conventional political activities.

In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? Despite the growing interest in new forms of citizen engagement in politics, there is virtually no systematic research investigating what these new and emerging forms of engagement look like, how prevalent they are in various societies, and how they fit within the broader structure of well-known participatory acts conceptually and empirically. The rapid spread of internet-based activities especially underlines the urgency to deal with such challenges. In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth put forward a systematic and unified approach to explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it. Political Participation in a Changing World will assist both scholars and students of political behaviour to systematically study new forms of political participation without losing track of more conventional political activities.

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook gives a clear and concise account of the government and politics of democratic states, comprehensively updated with recent developments. It provides an ideal guide for undergraduate students who want to understand how and why democratic systems differ between countries and how they are changing in the modern world. It is written and structured in an easy to follow style, enabling students to gain a thorough understanding of the explanations behind complex ideas and theories. The 'Briefings' and 'Controversies' sections give life to the analyses with illustrations drawn from around the globe, whilst its 'Key Term' entries provide students with a route through the concepts of political science. The fourth edition has been fully revised to reflect recent changes in political attitudes and behaviour, voting, parties, party systems and ideologies. The final chapter addresses the future of democratic states facing with these changes and challenges, by examining democratic crisis, populism and post-democracy.

Now in its fourth edition, this textbook gives a clear and concise account of the government and politics of democratic states, comprehensively updated with recent developments. It provides an ideal guide for undergraduate students who want to understand how and why democratic systems differ between countries and how they are changing in the modern world. It is written and structured in an easy to follow style, enabling students to gain a thorough understanding of the explanations behind complex ideas and theories. The 'Briefings' and 'Controversies' sections give life to the analyses with illustrations drawn from around the globe, whilst its 'Key Term' entries provide students with a route through the concepts of political science. The fourth edition has been fully revised to reflect recent changes in political attitudes and behaviour, voting, parties, party systems and ideologies. The final chapter addresses the future of democratic states facing with these changes and challenges, by examining democratic crisis, populism and post-democracy.

Jan W. van Deth Politik ist meistens kompliziert, langwierig und abstrakt und deshalb für Kinder nicht geeignet. Allenfalls sind Kinder als zukünftige Staatsbürger zu betrachten, die zwar eine gute Vorbereitung auf ihre spätere Rolle brauchen, aber sonst nicht von besonderem Interesse sind. Wenn man dennoch über Kinder und Politik reden möchte, dann ist die Jugendphase und nicht die frühe Kindheit von Bed- tung. In diesem Band wird mit derartigen Klischees und Vorurteilen gebrochen. Kinder – auch sehr junge Kinder – verfügen über politische Orientierungen und sind nicht nur als Objekte der Politik, sondern auch als junge Bürger mit eigenen Rechten und Ansprüchen zu betrachten. Über die politischen Orientierungen sehr junger Kinder sind kaum empi- sche Ergebnisse vorhanden. Diese Publikation ist ein erster Versuch auf der Basis einer Studie der politischen Orientierungen von Kindern sowie der E- wicklung dieser Orientierungen in der ersten Klasse der Grundschule, diesen weißen Fleck auf der Landkarte der Politikwissenschaft zu erschließen. Dabei wird zunächst gezeigt, wie junge Kinder Politik verstehen und auf welche Weise dieses Verständnis für die empirische Politikforschung zugänglich gemacht w- den kann. Hauptthema des Bandes ist die Beschreibung des Vorhandenseins und der Kohärenz politischer Orientierungen von jungen Kindern auf der Basis der beiden Wellen der Kinderbefragung des Projektes ‚Demokratie Leben Lernen’ (DLL). Im Rahmen dieses Projektes wurden fast 800 Kinder befragt. Das Projekt umfasst zusätzlich die Befragung ihrer Eltern und Lehrenden, welche jedoch für die vorliegende Veröffentlichung nicht verwendet wurden.