Projects / Programmes
Citizenship, involvement, democracy
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.03.00 |
Social sciences |
Sociology |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| S210 |
Social sciences |
Sociology |
social capital, trust, social networks, voluntary associations, political participation, democracy, Slovenia
Researchers (1)
| no. |
Code |
Name and surname |
Research area |
Role |
Period |
No. of publicationsNo. of publications |
| 1. |
01103 |
PhD Andrej Rus |
Sociology |
Head |
2002 - 2004 |
200 |
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The main purpose of the proposed project is to explain the relationship between social and political modes of political involvement. While membership in voluntary organizations, associations, citinzens intitiatives and less formalized groups - referred to as citizen involvement - is a mechanism of social integration that complements and competes with other integrative institutions such as family, work, neighbourhood, and friends, political involvement represents the central part of democratic political integration. The project aims to explore the mechanisms that link both forms of social integration and tries to identify the causal relationship that exists between the two. The project draws on two current debates. On the one hand it draws on the debate on social capital, civil society, and trust while on the other it draws on the debate on different models of democracy, citizenship, and the crisis of the welfare state. The project will conduct a survey on a representative sample of adult citizens of Slovenia in order to test hypotheses about political functions of social participation and identify social and organizational conditions under which social participation contributes to the quantitative (better democrat) and qualitative (active democrat) betterment of democracy. As a part of the ESF Network, the project is a part of a wider program involving 14 countries from the EU and the world.
