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This text introduces the special issue that examines the opinions and political behaviour of young people in the three Maghreb countries - Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco - over the last ten years, after the so-called >Arab Spring>. The assumption is that, although young North Africans do not form a homogeneous category and may even defend antagonistic outlooks on society, there are underlying trends that structure this emerging generation. The contributions of this special issue are articulated around three main topics: the construction and the representations of Youth as a social and political category; the political attitudes of young people and their perception of their respective societies in general and of political actors in particular; and finally, on the conflict between, on the one hand, the recognition of their rights and spaces for civic participation and, on the other, their electoral disaffection as reflected by opinion surveys and official data. In other words, this special issue discusses the complexity of the rise of a new generation through their narratives and their practices.

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The importance of NGO s' participation in poverty alleviation has not only been well documented by extensive studies but also confirmed by rich experience both at the international and national levels. In China, the government officially opened its resources to NGO s in combating poverty in 2005, and NGO s are expected to work as important participants in China's accurate poverty alleviation project, which is the largest anti-poverty campaign launched by the central government since the foundation of PRC. However, empirical data in the paper shows that NGO s' participation in this ambitious project is at best very limited. Drawing from more than 30 interviews and some other sources of data, this paper argues that it is the nature of poverty alleviation in China, which can be defined as political task, that should account for the NGO's limited participation. To be more specific, the excessive workload assumed by the local government deprives officials' motivation to cooperate with NGO s, excluding NGO s out of the poverty alleviation project is also a rational behavior that can avoid risks for officials. Moreover, the over-supplied financial resource also makes the participation of NGO s unnecessary. This research adds more insights to the study on NGO s in China by arguing that the state-society interaction in China is still asymmetrical.

This poster highlights the importance of citizen participation in Peruvian high schools. This poster explains the surrounding elements (two sets of factors) that encourage youth to be more engaged and committed to civic activities. More significant, this poster indicates the effects of political acts of citizen participation, which are also useful and necessary in democratic societies.

This study aims to describe how people's political participation in elections Mayor / Deputy Mayor of Palangkaraya in District Pahandut in 2013. People's political participation can be seen through the participation of the community in the campaign and polling (voting) can finally be concluded that the level of political participation of the community.Data sources of this study is secondary data which have been obtained from the District Election Committee (PPK) and Pahandut of the Voting Committee (PPS) in every village in the district Pahandut. Data collection techniques by performing the study and documentation of the village other materials related to the study. Field research is the data collection by jumping to a location using the enclosed questionnaire (questionnaire) as well as an interview with the head of the KDP Pahandut and communities have the right to vote.Sampling using Taro Yamane formula. Samples were taken of the number of voters registered in the voters list (DPT) in District Pahandut as many as 100 people from 49 160 people. While the data analysis technique used is descriptive quantitative in order to give an idea of the level of political participation in elections Mayor / Deputy Mayor Palangkaraya Pahandut Year 2013 in the district, whether it is through one's participation in the campaign and voting (voting).The results showed that the level of political participation of the community in the form of participation in campaign activities is still low at only 46 %. While the level of political participation of the community in the form of participation in the provision of voting rights (the election) is relatively high at 74.50 %.

"The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) - one of the major innovations of the Lisbon Treaty - allows citizens from April 2012 to call directly on the European Commission to propose a legal act within the framework of its powers. However, the formal requirements for such an initiative have been set very high: to be successful, an ECI will require a million signatures from at least seven out of twenty-seven member states. While the idea behind the ECI is to address the democratic deficit in the European Union by helping citizens to participate directly in the legislative
process, implementation issues could undermine the effectiveness, relevance and democratic potential of this new instrument." [author's abstract]

Empirical studies clearly show that not only are members of associations more politically active than non-members, but they also take a greater interest in politics and participate more often in political debate. Based on analyses of the correlation between association membership and participation in political discussions, the following article shows that these empirical findings are attributable only in limited measure to the political socialization effects of voluntary organizations. The results of multivariate analyses suggest that it is not so much association membership as early political socialization and education that lead to greater participation in political discussions. Associations do have a politicizing effect, however, chiefly when they afford an opportunity for their members to learn or cultivate organizational and communication skills or the ability to deal with conflict.

THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE TRANSFORMATION PROCESS OF POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN THE NEW FEDERAL STATES AND THE REORGANIZATION OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM IN LINE WITH PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE REMASCULINIZATION OF POLITICAL PUBLIC LIFE AND WITH THE RESTRUCTURING OF GENDER RELATIONSHIP INTO A RELATIONSHIP OF DOMINATION: WOMEN IN THE NEW FEDERAL STATES ARE THE "LOSERS OF GERMAN UNIFICATION"--IN SHORT, THIS IS THE RESULT OF THE UNIFICATION PROCESS UNTIL NOW. IT SUGGESTS THAT IN THE SHORT PERIOD OF TIME THAT HAD ELAPSED SINCE THE "WENDE" IN THE FALL OF 1989, MALE DOMINANCE WAS NOT THE CASE RIGHT FROM THE START. THIS STUDY OF POLITICAL CULTURE AND THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE GDR AFTER THE WENDE TAKES INTO ACCOUNT BOTH THE HISTORICAL COMPONENT AND THE SOCIAL COMPONENT.

Examines whether geographic concentration makes individuals in industries exposed to international commerce more likely to mobilize politically; analysis of manufacturers, 1988 and 1990.

AbstractThis paper investigates the relationship between socioeconomic resources and women's political participation, more precisely whether the distinction between individual and household resources helps to identify different mechanisms behind a possible "resource effect". Based on a Bayesian multilevel analysis using the Swiss Election Study 2011, we show that both individual and household resources matter for explaining female electoral participation. However, resource effects must not necessarily be positive: While higher education of women and their partners tend to increase female participation, a demanding job of either the woman and/or her partner rather decreases her propensity to vote. Moreover, the mechanisms behind partner effects are contingent on women's individual resource endowment. While low and medium educated women most strongly profit from higher educational partner resources, i.e. from a compensatory mechanism, the resource "time" seems to particularly confine political involvement of women with both high professional status or no employment.