Election, Participation, and Representation

Abstract

The panel starts with two papers assessing reasons for low levels of electoral participation/representation by particular groupings of individuals – in the first instance, a paper analysing the reasons for very low levels of political participation in UK politics by EU migrants, and secondly a cross-national quantitative study examining the reasons for under-representation of Muslims in Europe. There then follows a paper examining the gender-related content of party programmes in Turkish political parties, and a further paper reporting on survey experiments in Spain and the US to examine how the design and/or findings of a poll influence people’s willingness to share the findings across their social media networks.

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The Political Representation of Muslims in Northern and Western European Countries	View Paper Details
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