Accounting for Activism among members of youth party organizations
- Alarcón González, Francisco Javier 1
- Real-Dato, José 2
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Universidad de Granada
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Universidad de Almería
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ISSN: 0034-9712
Año de publicación: 2021
Volumen: 79
Número: 4
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Revista internacional de sociología
Resumen
This article focuses on the activism of members of youth party organisations (YPO). The purpose is to explore the explanatory power of three different models of party activism: civic voluntarism model, general incentives model and socio-psychological model. The original dataset used is members of youth sections in Spain (n=2144) including demographic items, social background and some measures of attitudes, motivations and party activism. The findings reveal: (i) some similarity among members of youth sections in relation to activism levels and in a great number of the independent variables used; (ii) a positive impact on party membership and party activism of associationism and expressive attachment to the youth section; (iii) passive and active modalities of activism are related to the possession of money (having a job); and (iv) a good fit of the socio-psychological model with regard to civic voluntarism and general incentive models in active modalities of activism.
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