The Four Faces of Political Participation in Argentina: Using Latent Class Analysis to Study Political Behavior

摘要: In this paper we use latent class analysis to identify the four faces of political participation. Previous research has generally focused on conventional forms participation (for example, voting), with some looking as well at unconventional participation, like protesting. Moreover, most studies these separately. However, citizens actually engage in both and simultaneously, here present a methodology that can who both, neither, or only one form Using our approach, examine series hypotheses about how social, political, economic grievances lead each face We apply recent survey data from Argentina, which argue is an excellent case for studying simultaneously. This application demonstrates utility approach