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To Participate or Not to Participate: The Link Between Survey Participation, Electoral Participation, and Political Interest

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  • Voogt, Robert J. J.
  • Saris, Willem E.

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Survey participation, electoral participation, and political interest have been given wide attention in the research literature, but no one so far has combined these three variables in one model. Taking the social isolation-hypothesis as our starting point, we developed a model with one factor, social involvement, as the common factor underlying these three types of participation. We reviewed the literature and concluded that we had to include a second underlying factor: attachment to society. Using a new data set, gathered on the occasion of the 1998 Dutch national elections and including validated voter turnout measures, we were able to test the model. After making some adaptions, we found a model with a satisfactory fit. The results show that, by including social involvement and attachment to society as mediating variables, we can reach much higher levels of explained variances of survey and electoral participation than we can with traditional models. The results also add to our understanding of the relationship between survey and electoral participation and political interest.

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  • Voogt, Robert J. J. & Saris, Willem E., 2003. "To Participate or Not to Participate: The Link Between Survey Participation, Electoral Participation, and Political Interest," Political Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 11(2), pages 164-179, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:polals:v:11:y:2003:i:02:p:164-179_01
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    1. Stocké, Volker, 2005. "Response privacy and elapsed time since election day as determinants for vote overreporting," Papers 05-42, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
    2. van Rooij, Maarten & Teppa, Federica, 2014. "Personal traits and individual choices: Taking action in economic and non-economic decisions," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 33-43.
    3. Stocké, Volker & Stark, Tobias, 2005. "Stichprobenverzerrung durch Item-Nonresponse in der international vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft," Papers 05-43, Sonderforschungsbreich 504.
    4. Stocké, Volker & Stark, Tobias, 2005. "Stichprobenverzerrung durch Item-Nonresponse in der international vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft," Sonderforschungsbereich 504 Publications 05-43, Sonderforschungsbereich 504, Universität Mannheim;Sonderforschungsbereich 504, University of Mannheim.
    5. Volker Hüfken, 2010. "Supplementary questionnaire and nonresponse-results from the German ISSP survey," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 44(4), pages 607-622, June.

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