The Effect of Economic Perceptions on Non-Conventional Political Participation in Chile in 2015
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Political Participation, Political Behavior, Economic Vote, ChileAbstract
In analyzing the determinants of conventional political participation, this article highlights the effect of the economic vote and assesses its effect on nonconventional political participation. Using the UNDP-Human Development 2015 poll in Chile, the study assesses the effect of the economic vote —in its sociotropic, egotropic, retrospective and prospective dimensions— on non-conventional participation. The article uses factor analysis as a methodological mechanism to group non-conventional participation into three types, individual, collective, and online. Using OLS and logistic regressions, the article reports that non-conventional participation increases with better retrospective egotropic perception, decreases with better socio-tropic retrospective perception and is not affected by ego and sociotropic prospective perceptions. In conclusion, retrospective perceptions explain non-conventional participation, positively in the case of egotropic perceptions and negatively in case of socio-tropic perceptions. When people believe they have fared well, they participate more, but when they believe the country has fared well, they participate less.
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