Health and Political Engagement.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Series
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- 1 Introduction: health and political engagement
- Health and inequality
- Health: definition and trends
- Defining political engagement
- The Finnish context
- Data
- Plan of the book
- References
- 2 Theoretical framework
- Previous research
- Health and political participation
- Health and ideology
- Disability and political participation
- Aggregate-level studies
- The current state of research
- A theoretical framework for connecting health and political engagement
- Resource theory
- Self-interest theory
- Theories of social context
- References
- 3 Health and political participation
- Introduction
- Health in the funnel model of political participation
- Theoretical expectations
- Analysis
- Conclusions
- References
- 4 Health and political orientations
- Introduction
- Interest, efficacy and satisfaction with democracy
- Political trust and knowledge
- Left-right orientation
- Conclusions
- References
- 5 Health and the social context
- Introduction
- Theoretical expectations
- Analysis
- Social networks, health and political engagement
- Collective identity, health and political engagement
- Conclusions
- References
- 6 Health and political participation from a cross-national perspective
- Introduction
- Cross-national health gaps in political participation
- Estimations of health gaps in political participation
- Theoretical predictions: context, health and turnout inequality
- Compulsory voting
- Voting facilitation
- Party vs candidate-centred electoral systems
- Number of parties
- Share of left-wing parties
- Trade union density
- Economic inequality
- Explanatory analysis of cross-national health gaps in turnout
- Bivariate correlations.
- Plotting contextual factors against health effects on turnout
- Multivariate regression
- Conclusions
- References
- 7 Health and political representation
- Introduction
- Health and political preferences
- Measuring opinion congruence
- Analysis
- Conclusions
- References
- 8 Conclusions
- Summary of the main findings
- Hypotheses and theoretical considerations
- Avenues for further research
- Final words: what to do with health-related inequalities in political engagement?
- References
- Appendix: data sources
- Index.