TY - JOUR
T1 - Emanating political participation
T2 - Untangling the spatial structure behind participation
AU - Cho, Wendy K.Tam
AU - Rudolph, Thomas J.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - This is an analysis of the spatial structure of political participation in the United States using spatial econometric techniques and newly available geo-coded data. The results provide strong evidence that political participation is geographically clustered, and that this clustering cannot be explained entirely by social network involvement, individual-level characteristics, such as race, income, education, cognitive forms of political engagement, or by aggregate-level factors such as racial diversity, income inequality, mobilization or mean education level. The analysis suggests that the spatial structure of participation is consistent with a diffusion process that occurs independently from citizens' involvement in social networks.
AB - This is an analysis of the spatial structure of political participation in the United States using spatial econometric techniques and newly available geo-coded data. The results provide strong evidence that political participation is geographically clustered, and that this clustering cannot be explained entirely by social network involvement, individual-level characteristics, such as race, income, education, cognitive forms of political engagement, or by aggregate-level factors such as racial diversity, income inequality, mobilization or mean education level. The analysis suggests that the spatial structure of participation is consistent with a diffusion process that occurs independently from citizens' involvement in social networks.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0007123408000148
DO - 10.1017/S0007123408000148
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:48849116820
SN - 0007-1234
VL - 38
SP - 273
EP - 289
JO - British Journal of Political Science
JF - British Journal of Political Science
IS - 2
ER -