4 - POL101 - WHAT IS POLITICAL PARTICIPATION?

What is non institutionalized political participation?

political engagemt that occur outside the formal institutions Protests, social movements, grassroot organizations → ESSENTIAL to delibrative democracies → gives us political agency

What is institutionalized political participation?

formal and structured ways that people engage in politics EX. Political parties, voting — Regular and organised, rules, embedding in the political framework

What is an Authoritarian Regime?

power is centralised, legiticmancy rests on the head of the state, maintain legitimacy by a monopoly of force

Issue with institutionalized political participation

Political particiation can still produce inequality, Max Weber’s Iron Cage → increased beautreacrization traps people in structers/rules that contain behaviour and secure power splits that favour elites

Solution → non institutionalized political participation

Contentious politics

when people join forces and confront the elites, enough incentives for us to mobilize around a cause

Social Movements

collective challenges based on common purposes and social solidarities, continuous interactions w/ elites/opponents/authorities

Social movements come before contentious poltics

Create political actors while contentious politics assumes they already exist

Centred around developing identity and political agency

Hallmark of social movements build the political actor → then go on to engage in contentious politics