Dealing with Environmental Responsibilities. Living Everyday Life as Political Participation Karin Skill, Department for Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden Elin Wihlborg, Department of Political Science, Linköping University, Sweden

2013 ◽  
pp. 53-78
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Science

Between the Social and the Political

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Pia Rowe ◽  
David Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Political ◽  
Conventional Theory ◽  
Important Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Action Language

While Wood and Flinders’ work to broaden the scope of what counts as “politics” in political science is a needed adjustment to conventional theory, it skirts an important relationship between society, the protopolitical sphere, and arena politics. We contend, in particular, that the language of everyday people articulates tensions in society, that such tensions are particularly observable online, and that this language can constitute the beginning of political action. Language can be protopolitical and should, therefore, be included in the authors’ revised theory of what counts as political participation.

scholarly journals Whom is political science for?

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Andrea Theocharis ◽  
Marcus Graetsch
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Political Science ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The State ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Status ◽  
Internet Discussion

We all study political science, but - what do we actually do here anyway? This essay expresses our thoughts about our subject. The everyday life in University doesn’t seem to give enough space for questioning what is this all about. Maybe a debate on that issue does not exist extensively because of fears of the loss of entitlement. The aim of this essay is to support the heightening of student’s awareness about the status quo of research and teaching in political science as we can judge it from our modest experiences. Trying to get to the basis of such a problem is not easy. The things here written are surely not the state of the art, but they could shine a better light on the problem what had been called the 'politics of political science' in an earlier Internet discussion on the IAPSS website. This paper should be understood as a start for a discussion, where we all can express our surely different experiences and ideas.

scholarly journals Educación Física para el desarrollo de la consciencia: Una propuesta pedagógica  (Physical Education for the development of consciousness: A pedagogical proposal)

Retos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelio Águila
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Pedagogical Action ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
Epistemological Basis

 En este ensayo se presenta una propuesta pedagógica en educación física dirigida a favorecer un aprendizaje significativo transferible a la vida cotidiana y una mayor consciencia social, a partir de la integración de mindfulness (consciencia plena) como base onto-epistemológica. Para ello, en la primera parte, se analiza el concepto de mindfulness desde su naturaleza esencial según la perspectiva budista, que integra sus fundamentos morales y sus implicaciones políticas. Asimismo, se critica el uso de mindfulness en el ámbito educativo como una mera técnica, para, a partir de ahí, defender las posibilidades de su inclusión como esencia onto-epistemológica de la acción pedagógica. En la segunda parte, se desarrollan los principios de esta propuesta de educación física enfocada a la expansión de la consciencia no condicionada del ser humano: una educación física orientada al crecimiento personal y moral, que estimule la participación política y contribuya a la transformación social.  Abstract: In this essay, a pedagogical proposal in physical education is presented aimed at promoting meaningful learning transferable to everyday life and greater social awareness, based on the integration of mindfulness as an onto-epistemological basis. For this, in the first part, the concept of mindfulness is analyzed from its essential nature according to the Buddhist perspective, which integrates its moral foundations and its political implications. Likewise, the use of mindfulness in the educational field is criticized as a mere technique, in order to, from there, defend the possibilities of its inclusion as an onto-epistemological essence of pedagogical action. In the second part, the principles of this proposal of physical education focused on the expansion of the unconditional consciousness of the human being are developed: a physical education oriented to personal and moral growth, which stimulates political participation and contributes to social transformation.

Democracy for All: Conceptualizing and Measuring Egalitarian Democracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 595-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Sigman ◽  
Staffan I. Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Democratic Survival

Although equality figures prominently in many foundational theories of democracy, liberal and electoral conceptions of democracy have dominated empirical political science research on topics like political regimes, democratization and democratic survival. This paper develops the concept of egalitarian democracy as a regime that provides de facto protection of rights and freedoms equally across the population, distributes resources in a way that enables meaningful political participation for all citizens and fosters an environment in which all individuals and social groups can influence political and governing processes. Using new indicators from the Varieties of Democracy project, the paper develops and presents measures of these important concepts, demonstrates their relationship to existing measures, and illustrates their utility for advancing the study of democracy in ways that more fully embrace the richness of democratic theory.

scholarly journals Demokrati og politisk deltagelse

Politik ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Palle Svensson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
The Self ◽  
World War ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Social Distribution

Democracy and political participation are closely related, but both the understanding of them and their relationship is disputed. Two conceptions of democracy – in this article labeled ‘democratic revisionism’ and ‘participatory democracy’ – compete for attention. In the article it is shown how the rst conception of de- mocracy as elite competition developed after World War II. It is further explained how participatory democ- racy developed as a critique of the rst conception. It is also shown how the desirability and the functions of political participation are perceived di erently according to the two conceptions of democracy. Various forms of political participation are discussed, and it is shown how the concept of participation in political science and sociology has been developed to include an increasing number of activities. On this basis, the extent and social distribution of various forms of political participation in Denmark is examined. Finally, it is discussed whether the idea of participatory democracy forms the basis of Danish democracy today. It is concluded that the leaders of the main political parties are reluctant to give up power and that the self-perception of Danish democracy is mainly based on the idea of representative democracy that focuses on elite competition. 

Participation's Not a Paradox: The View from American Activists

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kay Lehman Schlozman ◽  
Sidney Verba ◽  
Henry E. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Collective Goals

Political participation has long been a puzzle for political science analysis. The logic of collective action suggests that activity to achieve collective goals is irrational; yet citizens are active. In this article, we approach the subject from the point of view of political activists, using survey data to consider their own interpretations of why they took part. The data show that participants recall many gratifications from their activity and that the patterns differ substantially across modes of participation. These rewards tend to be ‘political’ in that activists cite both civic gratifications and the desire to achieve collective goals more frequently than would be expected on the basis of rational choice approaches. The variations among acts with respect to the nature of the retrospective interpretations of the rewards they provide – in conjunction with open-ended responses about the issues behind activity – lend credence to respondents' accounts. The results call into question the applicability of narrow rational choice approaches to political activity.

Must Radicals be Marxists? Lukes on Power, Contestability and Alienation

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Political System ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Equal Weight

According to Steven Lukes ‘A exercises power over B when A affects A in a manner contrary to B's interests’. Although he is not willing to contend that this general concept of power is altogether beyond reasonable dispute Lukes argues that it is the specific conceptions of power to which this more general concept gives rise when we fill in what is to count as B's interests that pose the fundamental problem for social and political science. For, although the conceptions are, to some degree, assessable in terms of their descriptive accuracy and explanatory scope, they are also ‘ineradicably evaluative’ and ‘essentially contested’. Three important ‘normatively specific conceptions of interests’, implying three corresponding conceptions of power, particularly concern him:(1) the liberal conception, which relates men's interests to what they actually want or prefer, to their policy preferences as manifested by their political participation; (2) the reformist conception, which, deploring that not all men's wants are given equal weight within the political system, also relates their interests to what they actually want and prefer, but allows that this may be revealed in the form of deflected, submerged, or concealed wants and preferences; and (3) the radical conception, which maintains that men's wants may themselves be a product of a system which works against their interests and, in such cases, relates the latter to what men would want and prefer, were they able to make the choice.

scholarly journals Review of What is Political Sociology? by Nga Than

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nga Than
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Nation States

In What is Political Sociology?, Elisabeth S. Clemens offers a smart primer on political sociology that asks what is distinct about this sub-field. By surveying its main concepts and research agendas—power and politics, states, nation-states, social movements, social change, and transnationalism—she shows how political sociology examines social processes that influence both formal politics and the politics that take place in everyday settings. Clemens notes that that political sociology differs from political science in that the former studies politics in various settings and that patterns of political participation and the distribution of political power are shaped by social relations, while the latter studies “the formal institutions and acts of governing” (p.1).

scholarly journals Creating Friction: Infrastructuring Civic Engagement in Everyday Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Korn ◽  
Amy Voida
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Design Space ◽  
Title Page ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
The Everyday

<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>This paper introduces the theoretical lens of the everyday to intersect and extend the emerging bodies of research on contestational design and infrastructures of civic engagement. Our analysis of social theories of everyday life suggests a design space that distinguishes ‘privileged moments’ of civic engagement from a more holistic understanding of the everyday as ‘product-residue.’ We analyze various efforts that researchers have undertaken to design infrastructures of civic engagement along two axes: the everyday-ness of the engagement fostered (from ‘privileged moments’ to ‘product-residue’) and the underlying paradigm of political participation (from consensus to contestation). Our analysis reveals the dearth and promise of infrastructures that create </span><span>friction</span><span>— provoking contestation through use that is embedded in the everyday life of citizens. Ultimately, this paper is a call to action for designers to create friction. </span></p></div></div></div>

The Claim to Free Time

Free Time ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie L. Rose
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Occupational Choice ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Free Time ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Standard Models ◽  
Distinct Object

This chapter argues that all citizens are entitled to a fair share of free time on the basis of the effective freedoms principle. Just as citizens generally require income and wealth to take advantage of their formal liberties and opportunities, so too do citizens generally require free time. Empirical political science has taken appropriate notice of this observation, including citizens' access to the resources of both money and time in standard models of political participation. Yet, normative political philosophy, while extensively considering citizens' requirements for income and wealth, has scarcely noted citizens' corresponding requirements for time. The chapter also considers the assumptions of the time–money substitutability claim, the perfect divisibility of labor demand and the perfect substitutability of money and basic needs satisfaction. Finally, it discusses free time as a distinct object of distributive justice and its relation to occupational choice.

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