Singh, SP and Dunn, K (2015) Authoritarianism, socioethnic diversity and political participation across countries. European Journal of Political Research, 54 (3). 563 - 581. ISSN 0304-4130
Abstract
It is argued in this article that threatening stimuli affect political participation levels among non-authoritarians more than among authoritarians. Focusing on socioethnic diversity, which is known to be particularly threatening to authoritarians and to relate negatively to political participation in the general public, analyses of individual- and macro-level data from 53 countries is presented which supports this thesis. Participation levels among authoritarians are largely static, regardless of a country's level of socioethnic heterogeneity, while non-authoritarians participate considerably less in countries with relatively high levels of socioethnic heterogeneity. This suggests that authoritarians participate to a proportionately greater degree in the most diverse countries.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, Wiley. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: "Singh, SP and Dunn, K (2015) Authoritarianism, socioethnic diversity and political participation across countries. European Journal of Political Research, 54 (3). 563 - 581. ISSN 0304-4130", which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12096. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. |
Keywords: | Political participation; socioethnic diversity; authoritarianism; World Values Survey |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2015 13:04 |
Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2017 06:30 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12096 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1475-6765.12096 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:86789 |