April 2025
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European Journal of Politics and Gender
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Publications (70)
March 2025
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October 2024
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1 Citation
European Journal of Politics and Gender
We examine the role of ‘gendered opportunities’ for political participation by analysing original survey data covering nine European countries alongside relevant macro-level factors. We hypothesize that gender interacts differently with certain features of the broader context – here, government spending on public services – across various modes of participation, leading to ‘gendered opportunities’ for political engagement. By analysing data for three different modes of participation, namely voting, protest and consumerist participation, we show that the political context provides ‘gendered opportunities’ for political participation and that the gender gap is not homogeneously distributed across modes but varies depending on the repertoire. Our findings clearly highlight how the relationship between gender and the broader context for political participation is a complex one, suggesting that further work must consider the macro–micro linkages leading to differential gender inequalities in political participation.
October 2024
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April 2024
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Political Studies
This article investigates the relationship between public funding and the political activities of youth organisations in Europe. By analysing original data from a random sample of about 4500 youth organisations in nine countries generated through a content analysis of organisations’ websites, we examine the extent to which they engage in political activities. The analysis provides evidence for a negative impact of public funding on the engagement of youth organisations in political activities. This suggests that receiving financial resources from state institutions may lead to depoliticisation. Moreover, we also show how the effect of public funding is conditional upon the broader context, suggesting that the question of whether public funding encourages or discourages youth organisations to carry out political activities may be contingent on their broader economic and political environment.
July 2022
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This chapter introduces The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation. One of the aims of this Handbook is to bring together two research traditions from political science and sociology, bridging research in political sociology and social movement studies, thus further developing the links between the disciplines that have only recently begun to emerge. After delimiting the boundaries of the subject matter by addressing definitional matters, the chapter presents the content of the Handbook by discussing a number of key issues in the study of political participation: how this topic is addressed by different disciplines and from different theoretical arguments; the variety of methodological approaches scholars adopts to study it; the different modes of participation; the role of context; the determinants and process of political participation; its macro-level and micro-level outcomes; and some current trends and future directions
July 2022
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This chapter examines protest participation as a distinct mode of political participation. The chapter addresses four key questions: What is protest participation? How can it be studied? Who engages in it? How can it be explained? Furthermore, we discuss the role of context for protest participation, including how patterns of protest may differ between democratic and nondemocratic states, as well as how protest participation has transformed over time, both in the long and in the shorter run. The chapter makes two key arguments about protest participation. Firstly, concerning its definition, we stress the fact that what is meant by protest participation changes over time and therefore analytical tools must adapt to these changes. Secondly, concerning its explanation, we argue that, while there are different approaches and research traditions stressing different explanatory factors – we can distinguish in this regard between macro-structural, social-psychological, and predispositional accounts –, some points of convergence exist amongst them and therefore we need to combine those approaches and traditions in order to reach a better understanding of why and how people engage in protest activities. The transformation of political participation is also discussed.
July 2022
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35 Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Political Participation provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of political participation in all of its varied expressions. It covers a wide range of topics relating to the study of political participation from different disciplinary and methodological angles, such as the modes of participation, the role of the context as well as the determinants, processes, and outcomes of participation. The volume brings together the political science and political sociology tradition, on the one hand, and the social movement sociological tradition, on the other, is sensitive to theoretical and methodological pluralism as well as the most recent developments in the field, and includes discussions combining perspectives that have traditionally been treated separately in the literature as well as discussions of current trends and future directions for research in this field.
December 2021
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22 Citations
November 2021
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13 Citations
Politics
Particularly in the current context of rapid political change it is key to understand the political participation of young people and what underpins their political engagement patterns as well the as the inequalities that may lay beneath them. While there is a rich literature on youth participation, to date we have lacked the data to carry out detailed subgroup analyses to understand differences in the political participation between different groups of youth cross-nationally. The papers in this Special Issue all examine different aspects of youth participation in the current context. They examine key questions for participation including the inequalities, socialising influences, polarisation, online participation, radical political views, tolerance, life engagement and opportunities for social inclusion. This Special Issue thus provides a contemporary analysis of youth participation in Europe in the current historical juncture.
Citations (60)
... Important insights in this respect come from studies examining gender differences across different modes and forms of participation, especially when such differences are examined across national contexts (Coffé and Bolzendahl, 2010;Quaranta and Dotti Sani, 2018). In this context, Grasso and Giugni (2025b) examine cross-nationally the role of 'gendered opportunities' across three key modes of participation: voting, protest and consumer participation. Gendered opportunities here are provided by government spending for public services, a particularly relevant contextual aspect for the political participation of women, given the traditional division of labour between men and women in contemporary societies. ...
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October 2024
European Journal of Politics and Gender
... Considering the rise in international mobility and the new social realities that follow, citizenship scholars have developed refined approaches such as transnational citizenship or inclusive citizenship. Three main aspects make up citizenship-membership, rights and participation (Giugni & Grasso, 2021) The concepts that highlight migration are mostly found under participation. This goes along with Isin and Nielsens's (2008) focus on 'acts of citizenship' (Isin & Nielsen, 2008), as opposed to the mere status of citizenship. ...
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June 2021
... This is mediated through SES (Verba & Nie, 1972). Young people from higher socioeconomic backgrounds typically benefit from greater access to socialisation agents, such as high-quality educational institutions, extracurricular activities, and digital resources, all of which significantly impact civic and political development (Giugni & Grasso, 2021;Janmaat & Hoskins, 2022;Jungkunz & Marx, 2024). As far as direct influences are concerned, consistently with social learning theory, parents act as primary role models, transmitting political values, beliefs, and behaviours through mechanisms such as family discussions, participation in political activities, and explicit encouragement. ...
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July 2021
... The study of political participation is a constantly expanding field of research, not only in terms of the repertoire of activities covered in the literature, but also in terms of the domain of political engagement ( van Deth 2001, Zukin et al. 2006, Dalton 2006, van Deth, Montero and Westholm 2007, Theocharis and van Deth 2016, 2017, Giugni and Grasso 2022. Drawing on a typology suggested by Amnå and Ekman (Ekman and Amnå 2012, Amnå and Ekman 2014, Ekman and Amnå 2022, "political participation" is understood in this article as something of an umbrella concept, encompassing all sorts of activities and orientations, both civil and political, including what is sometimes labelled involvement, engagement, and participation. ...
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July 2022
... 5 A useful overview of what the authors call 'the third wave of autocratization' can be found in Lührmann and Lindberg (2019). 6 A comprehensive overview of such strategies can be found in part IV of Giugni and Grasso (2022b). 7 See comparative analyses in, e.g., Norris (2022) and Dalton (2022). ...
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July 2022
... Across countries, women express greater concern for the environment and are more likely to act pro-environmentally than men (Zelezny et al. 2000). This difference is attributed to their distinct life experiences, which heighten their awareness of issues such as the impact of pollution on children's health (Grasso and Giugni 2022). Women are often the first to experience chemical trespass into the private sphere of their homes, their bodies and their children's bodies. ...
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December 2021
... Theoretical work on youth and everyday peace sees young people as 'organic globalizers' where 'everyday life is a local/global space' (Berents & McEvoy-Levy, 2015). The young are defined here conjuncturally rather than in generational terms (Pina-Cabral & Theodossopoulos, 2022) in terms of their positioning: within global flows (leisure, social media, tech, education and exchange) making them particularly open to other cultural norms and national differences (Cicchelli & Octobre, 2019); their precarity -economic, climate, health -which provides a distinctive context disrupting settled assumptions (Schilling et al., 2019;for variation with class Liang, 2024;Zilberstein et al., 2023); and their tendency to eschew party politics, engaging instead in social movements, single-issue protests and online petitions which makes them particularly open to cross-national diffusion of themes and ideas (Flesher Fominaya, 2015;Grasso & Giugni, 2022). Yet the success of this 'cosmopolitanisation' of youth is questioned by the challenges of contemporary nationalism, protectionism, electoral victory of far-right parties, authoritarian governments, and the difficulties of peacebuilding amidst persistent communal divisions (Cicchelli & Octobre, 2019, p. 14; see also Every Day Peace and Youth, 2015; Pendenza & Verderame, 2019;Zilberstein et al., 2023, pp. ...
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November 2021
Politics
... The intersection of gender and civic engagement, as shown by Grasso and Smith (2022) and Maitra and Hänggli (2023), highlights gender inequality in participation across traditional and non-traditional forms of activism, as well as societal attitudes towards activism by men, women, and LGBTQI+ individuals (Table 1). ...
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October 2021
Politics
... Class plays a substantial role in shaping political engagement among youths. Grasso and Giugni's (2022) research on class inequalities across European countries found that young people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less politically engaged than their higher-class peers. Research on young people of color in the United States finds that they encounter additional barriers to participation, facing a double penalty both for their age and for their racial and ethnic identities, thus leading to a lack of opportunities for activism and participation (Earl et al. 2017;Ginwright and Cammarota 2007;Taines 2012). ...
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October 2021
Politics
... Beyond the above, one element that makes it difficult to analyse opinion about sex work is that most studies on attitudes, whether in the specific case of Spain or in any other context, tend to focus on an attitude of rejection or approval of sex work in general Johansson, 2022a, 2022b;Kotsadam, 2011, 2013;Valor-Segura et al., 2011;Vlase and Grasso, 2021; among others) with some recent exceptions (Johansson and Hansen, 2024c;Powers et al., 2023;Puffer et al., 2024). That is, studies cited above do not usually distinguish between different types of sex work when asking participants about their disapproval or about the regulatory approach to their preference. ...
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September 2021
