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What are the implications of unequal democratic political input for the representativeness and health of democratic states? This is the question guiding this chapter, which provides a review and discussion of the main findings of the empirical analyses of how social policies can shape both the levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support. The study’s limitations and the challenges for future research are discussed with a view to implications that the findings have for the legitimacy of modern democratic societies.
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Staffan Kumlin’s (2004) approach in The Personal and the Political is much better suited to investigating political trust. Using survey data for Sweden, which inquired directly into people’s personal experiences, their opportunities to voice opinions, and their experiences of responsiveness of service agencies, he gets much closer to what political trust really means to people. Unfortunately, such data are not available for a large number of countries.
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Shore, J. (2019). Consequences of Unequal Citizenship. In: The Welfare State and the Democratic Citizen. Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93961-2_6
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