Income inequality and participation: A comparison of 24 European countries

Lancee, Bram; Werfhorst, Herman G. van de

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.04.005

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“…Indeed, contemporary working-class British youth are less interested in political affairs, have less confidence in their own political knowledge, are more critical of the value of elections and offer less support to democracy than their middle-class counterparts [8]. Inequality reduces political participation amongst the less wealthy because they have less access to resources or networks which facilitate or encourage engagement, they hold less influence over the direction of politics relative to those who are wealthier and they are more likely to suffer the consequences of unequal societies (such as poor health) [89]. Not only do neoliberal policies create inequality which leads to declining levels of participation, the move to replace sovereign citizens with sovereign consumers intensifies such inequalities by predicating political influence on economic power.…”

Section: Economic Disadvantage and Political Disenfranchisementmentioning

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Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People’s Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain

Hart

Henn

2017

Societies

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Recent trends suggest that young people in Britain are increasingly rejecting electoral politics. However, evidence suggests that British youth are not apolitical, but are becoming ever more sceptical of the ability of electoral politics to make a meaningful contribution to their lives. Why young people are adopting new political behaviour and values, however, is still a point of contention. Some authors have suggested that neoliberalism has influenced these new patterns of political engagement. This article will advance this critique of neoliberalism, giving attention to three different facets of neoliberalism and demonstrate how they combine to reduce young people's expectations of political participation and their perceptions of the legitimacy of political actors. We combine ideational and material critiques to demonstrate how young people's political engagement has been restricted by neoliberalism. Neoliberalism has influenced youth political participation through its critiques of collective democracy, by the subsequent transformations in political practice that it has contributed to, and through the economic marginalisation that has resulted from its shaping of governments' monetary policy. This approach will be conceptually predicated on a definition of neoliberalism which acknowledges both its focus on reducing interventions in the economy, and also its productive capacity to modify society to construct market relations and galvanise competition amongst agents. From this definition, we develop the argument that neoliberal critiques of democracy, the subsequent changes in political practices which respond to these criticisms and the transformation in socioeconomic conditions caused by neoliberalism have coalesced to negatively influence young people's electoral participation.

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Section: Economic Disadvantage and Political Disenfranchisementmentioning

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Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People’s Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain

Hart

Henn

2017

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“…We know that political participation resources are 'distributed differentially among groups defined by socioeconomic status' and that inequality within European countries 'magnifies the relationship between income and participation' (Lancee and Van de Werfhorst, 2012).…”

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The political participation of disabled people in Europe: Rights, accessibility and activism

Priestley

Stickings²,

Loja

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“…Denmark provides an interesting case because it combines a strong and involved welfare state (Esping- Andersen, 1990) with low social inequality (Lancee and Van de Werfhorst, 2012) and high foster care caseloads (Fallesen, Emanuel, and Wildeman, 2013). At the same time, children who enter foster care tend to come from single parent or cohabiting parent homes with younger parents that often have low levels of education and poor labor market affiliation (e.g., Andersen and Fallesen, 2010;Egelund, Hestbaek, and Andersen, 2004;Ejrnaes, Ejrnaes, and Frederiksen, 2011).…”

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Identifying divergent foster care careers for Danish children

Fallesen

2014

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Foster care children who experience placement disruption and foster care instability are at elevated risk for a host of poor outcomes, yet little work considers what these unstable foster care careers look like or what causes them. In this article, I start by using previous studies on foster care drift, instability, and placement disruptions to define the unstable foster care career as a subset of foster care careers. I then use administrative data on 30,239 Danish children born 1982-1987 who entered foster care to generate nine foster care careers, two of which meet the criteria for an unstable career. Children with a high number of risk factors associated with foster care entry were also the most likely to enter an unstable career. I end by discussing implications for recent studies of the effect of foster care on children's later life outcomes and the relevance of the findings for practitioners.Keywords: administrative data; foster care; instability; sequence analysis 3 Foster care is intended to provide children with the best possible opportunity for personal development and stability when their immediate family is unable to secure them a safe and stable upbringing. Nevertheless, some children's placement trajectories end up mirroring the instability they experienced prior to entering foster care (e.g., Andersen, 2012; Havlicek 2011). Previous studies have examined aspects of such unstable foster care trajectories, including foster care drift where children move aimlessly through the foster care system, without reaching a permanent placement, adoption, or successful reunification (e.g., Andersen, 2012;Hartley, 1984)

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Income inequality and participation: A comparison of 24 European countries

Cited by 163 publications

References 36 publications

Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People’s Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain

Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People’s Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain

The political participation of disabled people in Europe: Rights, accessibility and activism

Identifying divergent foster care careers for Danish children

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