Across Borders: France within the Broader Political Activism Context

Abstract

The creation of the political participation indexes introduced in the previous chapter allows the research project to answer the three questions presented by the French participation paradigm in this book. Using the conventional activity index, the protest measure and the individual’s participation in politically-based associations, in conjunction with frequencies, cross-tabulations, correlations and regression models, the reader will be able to discover, one step at a time, the relevant meaning of a political participation case in which the individual’s political integration network is very limited. In this sense, this chapter specifically connects France to other cases of advanced democracies, putting forward a direct comparison on the bases of political participation figures.