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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Van der Meer, Thomas., te Grotenhuis, Manfred. and Scheepers, Peer. "States of Freely Associating Citizens? A multi-level study into the impact of state institutions on civic participation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>. 2008-12-11 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p197473_index.html>

Van der Meer, T. W., te Grotenhuis, M. and Scheepers, P. , 2007-04-12 "States of Freely Associating Citizens? A multi-level study into the impact of state institutions on civic participation" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2008-12-11 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p197473_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This article studies the impact of a range of state institutions on civic participation – encompassing activities that take place within voluntary associations. We put forward three lines of reasoning: the crowding out thesis, the socio-economic security thesis and the public sphere thesis. We test these lines of reasoning separately and simultaneously in a multilevel research design on ESS 2002 data. Our empirical analyses result in three major claims. First, countries differ strongly on the degree to which their citizens are involved in voluntary associations. Second, these country level differences are to a large extent explained by the institutional settings. Third, and most importantly, not all citizens are equally affected by the state institutional arrangements. On the one hand, the participation rates among the poor are highly sensitive to state institutions. On the other hand, for the rich the choice to participate in voluntary associations is rather independent from state institutions. The state is only able to affect poor citizens’ involvement in voluntary associations.

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