Political Mobilisation and Electoral Participation

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel focuses on different forms of political participation in democracies and the role of policies, parties and groups in mobilising and motivating citizen engagement. The panel examines how labour market and retirement policies and lifecycle transitions affects political participation, and investigates types of participation and participatory inequality over time and across countries. The panel will also explore how differing mobilisation strategies in independence referendums affects the subsequent electoral performance of nationalist parties, and which factors motivate party members to volunteer for election campaigning. The panel will furthermore examine how and why interest groups in declining industries mobilise politically around elections.

Sub Unit

• Division 14: Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Democracies

Chair

• John Högström Mid Sweden University

Discussant

• Maarja Luhiste Newcastle University

Individual Presentations

• Grooming the Grassroots: How Parties Mobilize Support for Independence - Gemma Sala, Grinnell College

• Zombie Interest Groups: Political Mobilization after a Demise of Local Industry - Makoto Fukumoto, Waseda University; Hiroaki Inatsugu, Waseda University

• Gerrymandering the Early Voting System in Sweden? - Robin Hakansson, Mid Sweden University