How France participates? The impact of generational renewal on political participation (1981–2018)
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en
Article de revue
Ce document a été publié dans
French Politics. 2021-09-03, vol. 19, n° 2-3, p. 139-157
Palgrave Macmillan
Résumé en anglais
The place left to citizens in modern democracies is still an ongoing debate. Do they participate and how in France is the topic of this article. Some scholars point out the declining level of turnout ...Lire la suite >
The place left to citizens in modern democracies is still an ongoing debate. Do they participate and how in France is the topic of this article. Some scholars point out the declining level of turnout and consider that representative democracy is under pressure. Other argue that citizens participate differently through protest. In this article, we investigate how participation has evolved since the 1980’s and demon-strate the major impact of generational replacement in these matters We demonstrate how the participation repertoire evolve between citizens born before World War 2, Baby-Boomers and Post-Baby-Boomers and how these transformations interact with social inequalities, particularly among the recent cohorts.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
Generational renewal
Cohort analysis
Political participation
Electoral Turnout
Protest
Origine
Importé de hal