Open AccessFinance and Political Participation
Author(s) -
Peter Bearse
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
advances in politics and economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2576-1390
pISSN - 2576-1382
DOI - 10.22158/ape.v2n3p224
Subject(s) - politics , prime (order theory) , subject (documents) , work (physics) , inequality , political science , political economy , finance , economics , sociology , law , mechanical engineering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , combinatorics , library science , computer science , engineering
This essay identifies and discusses the factors and forces arising from finance that influence peoples’ political participation. It does so at two levels: (1) micro-economic or individual and (2) macro-economic and social. We find that both factors and forces at work are significantly adverse to political participation at all levels. The prime intermediate factor here is economic inequality, which is the subject of a companion essay published earlier.