Get out to Vote

dc.contributor.advisorLehr, A.R.
dc.contributor.authorBorgh van der, Daan
dc.date.issued2017-06-23
dc.description.abstractPrevious research on youth political participation largely neglects the question why there are large differences across European countries regarding their youth voting turnout. Therefore is the main goal of this thesis to open the ‘black box’ of youth political participation and to explain differences across European countries. This research uses a rational choice approach to combine three theoretical explanations: resource mobilization theory, social capital theory and party identification theory. The use of the rational choice approach allows me to compare the three different theories into one multilevel model. These three theories and their corresponding hypotheses were tested by using multi-level logistic regression analyses. The final results of the analyses were mixed, which means that for all three theories I found significant results for at least one hypothesis. Recommendations for further research are to use longitudinal datasets, as well to conduct a more in-depth analysis of survey data which has been collected just after a national election.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/4616
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.thesis.facultyFaculteit der Managementwetenschappenen_US
dc.thesis.specialisationComparative Politicsen_US
dc.thesis.studyprogrammeMaster Political Scienceen_US
dc.thesis.typeMasteren_US
dc.titleGet out to Voteen_US
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