The Citizen Political Activeness Under The Cartel Parties

Chen Yan

November 1, 2010

Proposal

To find whether the citizen political activeness has fall down during the assigned period or not?

If drop, what's the meaning for the political parties?

Theories---- about the party

1. Causus party: 18th Century

2.Neumann,1956: mass-party pre-industrial stage

3. Kirchheimer(1966): Catch-all party post-industrial stage

4.Katz and Peter Mair(1995): Cartel party after 1970s

Theories---- about the public activeness

Measures of political activity :

Woodward and Roper: "political activity of American Citizens"

The American Political Science Review,Vol 44,No.4(Dec,1950) pp.87

1. Voting at the polls

2. Supporting possible pressure groups by being a member of them

3. Communicating directly with legislators

4. Participating in political party activity and thus acquiring a claim on legislators

5. Engaging in habitual dissemination of political opinions to other citizen

Data

World values surveyXWVSEVS_1981_2000_v20060423.sav

Data collected by Klaus Armingeon et al. I CPDSIExcel1960-2006_ger.sav

Model

S= voting +discussing +belonging

+ worked+contributed money ----Woodward and Roper:

the model of this paper:

Yi =∑cty[Sv+Sd+Sb+Sc]

Y: total possible score

i : year(appioned)

Sb:Belonging

Sd :Discusses

Sv: voting

Sc:Worked

Hypotheses

General activeness has been down;

Detailed , the vote score sustains with the subtle change,

comparatively,the other three aspects have drop down obviously.

To find:

score respondent % of total countries who made the score commulative per cent

devide :≤25%----very active

≤50%----active

≤75%----inactive

≤100%----very inactive

the vary of each aspect of the activeness

Challenges

How to choose the country ?

Are the statistics reasonable without the distinction of the

different country case?

Thanks for your attention!