I am working on my doctoral thesis regarding social media effects on political participation. I think about doing a empirical study. I figure out some indpendent variables, i.e., politically use of socia media (searching for news, participating political conversation with others online, online social networking size), also some mediators, i.e., political interest, political efficacy, and dependent variable as political partipation online and offline.
I decided to design some questions measuring the political participation in China. But I can not. I red Political Participation in Beijing by Tianjian Shi and I am still confused somehow. Can anyone recommed some books or papers?
Thanks.
I think the specific situations are different in different countries. But it's helpful to look at dimensions of political participation as well as the psychological motivations of participants. If you can access this article, you will see how we approached your question in the context of the Soviet Union in the late 1980's:
Article
Soviet Citizen Participation on the Eve of Democratization
Donna L. Bahry
Brian D. Silver
American Political Science Review (Impact Factor: 3.93). 09/1990; 84(September):821-848. DOI: 10.2307/1962768
ABSTRACT This study reassesses the debate over Soviet citizen politics in the USSR during the Brezhnev era . We argue the need for a more complex model of citizen participation in the USSR before Gorbachev if we are to have an accurate baseline for evaluating changes in regime-society relations . We examine the connections between individual attitudes and individual behavior, and we show that political participation under the "old regime" was not nearly as one-dimensional and devoid of affect as many previous researchers (and current Soviet leaders ) have described it. Many forms of political participation in the Soviet Union before Gorbachev did not fit the stereotype of a psychologically disengaged citizenry driven to participate only by coercion, a desire to conform, or a quest for particularized benefits from public officials .
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