Mobilized or civic minded: Factors affecting the political participation of senior citizens

Research on Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 627-656

  Kam, Ping Kwong ^a   Cheung, Chau Kiu ^a   Chan, Wing Tai ^a   Leung, Kwan Kwok ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; MALE; POLITICS; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0032850998     PISSN: 01640275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0164027599215001     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Aldrich, John H. 1993. "Rational Choice and Turnout." American Journal of Political Science 37(1):246-78.
2. Aldrich, John H. and Dennis M. Simon. 1986. "Turnout in American National Elections." Research in Micropolitics 1:271-301.
3. Almond, Gabriel A. and Sidney Verba. [1963] 1989. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
4. Baker, Frank B. 1992. Item Response Theory: Parameter Estimation Techniques. New York: Marcel Dekker.
5. Bartels, Larry M. 1993. "Messages Received: The Political Impact of Media Exposure." American Political Science Review 87(2):267-85.
6. Bazargan, Mohsen, Ann R. Barbre, and Fernando Torres-Gill. 1992. "Voting Behavior Among Low-Income Black Elderly: A Multielection Perspective." Gerontologist 32(5):584-91.
7. Bazargan, Mohsen, Tai S. Kang, and Shahrzad Bazargan. 1991. "A Multivariate Comparison of Elderly African Americans and Caucasians Voting Behavior: How Do Social, Health, Psychological, and Political Variables Affect Their Voting?" International Journal of Aging and Human Development 32(3):181-98.
8. Bennett, W. Lance and Bart R. Salisbury. 1987. "Rational Choice: The Emerging Paradigm in Election." Research in Micropolitics 2:1-30.
9. Boiney, John and David L. Paletz. 1991. "In Search of the Model Model: Political Science Versus Political Advertising Perspectives on Voter Decision Making." Pp. 3-25 in Television and Political Advertising, vol. 1, Psychological Processes, edited by Frank Biocca. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
10. Brady, Henry E., Sidney Verba, and Kay Lehman Schlozman. 1995. "Beyond SES: A Resource Model of Political Participation." American Political Science Review 89(2):271-94.
11. Chappell, Neena L. 1981. "Measuring Emotional Ability and Chronic Health Conditions Among the Elderly: A Research Note on the Adequacy of Three Instruments." Journal of Health of Social Behavior 22:90-102.
12. Cutler, N. E. 1983. "Age and Political Behavior." Pp. 409-42 in Aging - Scientific Perspectives and Social Issues, edited by D. S. Woodruff and J. E. Birren. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
13. Fife-Schaw, Chris and Glynis M. Breakwell. 1990. "Predicting the Intention Not to Vote in Late Teenage: A U.K. Study of 17-and 18-Year-Olds." Political Psychology 11(4):739-55.
14. Fiorina, Morris. 1990. "Information and Rationality in Elections." Pp. 329-42 in Information and Democratic Processes, edited by John A. Ferejohn and James H. Kuklinski, Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
15. Gibson, James L. 1993. "Perceived Political Freedom in the Soviet Union." Journal of Politics 55(4):936-74.
16. Gilbert, Christopher P. 1993. The Impact of Churches on Political Behavior: An Empirical Study. Westport, CT: Greenwood.
17. Goel, M. Lal. 1980. "Conventional Political Participation." Pp. 108-32 in Participation in Social and Political Activities: A Comprehensive Analysis of Political Involvement, Expressive Leisure Time, and Helping Behavior, edited by David Horton Smith, Jacqueline Macaulay, and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
18. Grofman, Bernard. 1987. "Models of Voting." Research in Micropolitics 2:31-61.
19. Jennings, M. Kent and Gregory B. Markus. 1988. "Political Involvement in the Later Years: A Longitudinal Survey." American Journal of Political Science 32(2):302-16.
20. Kalberg, Stephen. 1980. "Max Weber's Type of Rationality: Cornerstone for the Analysis of Rationalization Processes in History." American Journal of Sociology 85:1145-79.
21. Kennamer, J. David. 1990. "Comparing Predictors of the Likelihood of Voting in a Primary and a General Election." Journalism Quarterly 67(4):777-84.
22. Leighley, Jan. 1991. "Participation as a Stimulus of Political Conceptualization." Journal of Politics 53(1):198-211.
23. Louie, Kin-sheun. 1993. "Who Voted in the 1991 Elections: A Socio-Demographic Profile of the Hong Kong Electorate." Pp. 1-39 in Hong Kong Tried Democracy: The 1991 Elections in Hong Kong, edited by Siu-kai Lau and Kin-Sheun Louie. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
24. Louie, Kin-sheun and Po-san Wan. 1993. Voting Behavior in Hong Kong: A Study of the 1991 Legislative Council Direct Election. Hong Kong: Committee on the Promotion of Civic Education.
25. MacDonald, Stuart Elaine and George Rabinowitz. 1993. "Ideology and Candidate Evaluation." Public Choice 76:59-78.
26. Miller, Arthur H. and Kent Asp. 1985. "Learning About Politics From the Media: A Comparative Study of Sweden and the United States." Pp. 241-60 in Mass Media and Political Thought: An Information-Processing Approach, edited by Sidney Kraus and Richard M. Perloff. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
27. Patterson, Samuel C. and Gregory A, Caldeira. 1983. "Getting Out the Vote: Participation in Gubernatorial Elections." American Political Science Review 77:675-89.
28. Peterson, Steven A. 1990. Political Behavior: Patterns in Everyday Life. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
29. Peterson, Steven A. and Robert Maiden. 1993. "Personality and Politics Among Older Americans: A Rural Case Study." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 36(2):157-69.
30. Peterson, Steven A. and Albert Somit. 1992. "The Political Behavior of Older American Blacks." The Gerontologist 32(5):592-600.
31. _. 1994. The Political Behavior of Older Americans. New York: Garland.
32. Radloff, Lenore Sawyer. 1977. "The CES-D Scale: A Self-Report Depression Scale for Research in the General Population." Applied Psychological Measurement 1(3):385-401.
33. Rapoport, Ronald B., Walter J. Stone, and Alan I. Abramowitz. 1991. "Do Endorsements Matter? Group Influence in the 1984 Democratic Caucuses." American Political Science Review 85(1):193-203.
34. Rhodebeck, Laurie A. 1993. "The Politics of Greed? Political Preferences Among the Elderly." Journal of Politics 55(2):342-64.
35. Sears, David O. and Carolyn L. Funk. 1991. "The Role of Self-Interest and Political Attitudes." Advances in Experimental Social Psychology 24:1-91.
36. Sherbourne, Cathy Donald and Anita L. Stewart. 1991. "The MOS Social Support Survey." Social Science and Medicine 32(6):705-14.
37. Sigelman, Lee, Philip W. Roeder, Malcolm E. Jewell, and Michael A. Baer. 1985. "Voting and Nonvoting: A Multi-Election Perspective." American Journal of Political Science 29:747-65.
38. Strate, John M., Charles J. Parrish, Charles D. Elder, and Coit Ford, III. 1989. "Life Span Civic Development and Voting Participation." American Political Science Review 83(2):443-64.
39. Thissen, David. 1991. MULTILOG User's Guide: Multiple Categorical Item Analysis and Test Scoring Using Item Response Theory. Chicago: Scientific Software.
40. Wald, Kenneth D., Dennis E. Owen, and Samuel S. Hill, Jr. 1990. "Political Cohesion in Churches." Journal of Politics 52(1):197-215.
41. Ward, R. A. 1979. The Aging Experiences: An Introduction to Social Gerontology. New York: J. B. Lippincott.