Research on Political Participation

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Let's see. As its name suggests, political participation is an act of participating in the political process by presenting your opinion. In most cases, this is to influence the political situation, such as protest actions to carry out change and raise awareness. There are various kinds of political participation, but the most common participation involves voting, jury duties, and participation in city hall meeting. It may be difficult to involve people, but regardless of race, class, and other characteristics, democracy requires political participation. In fact, in certain cases, as in the voting rights law in 1965, certain laws were passed in order to prevent someone from disturbing the political participation of others.

Participation (voting etc.) and non-institutional political participation (protest participation etc.) Today, institutional forms of political participation are decreasing in many societies, and forms of non-institutional political participation are increasing (Bennett , 2012). However, most previous studies focused on one of the two forms of political participation in the study. By analyzing the two forms of political participation, this research provides more insight into those differences and similarities.

This study considers two forms of political participation, institutional and non-institutional political participation. Institutional form of political participation refers to traditional political participation such as voting and attending city hall meeting (J. M. McLeod et al., 1999; Shah, McLeod, & Yoon, 2001). These activities are usually done in communities and meeting places. Participants interact with politics, they are a radical, confrontational and indirect way to influence politics (Bennett, 2012). Non-institutional political participation is designed to dispute authority (Boyle & Schmierbach, 2009). Typical non-institutional political actions include political protests, demonstrations, and Internet behaviorism (Mosca & Quaranta, 2016; Norris, Walgrave, and Van Aelst, 2005)