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Mobilized or civic minded
— factors affecting the political participation of senior citizens | | Author(s) | Ping-Kwong Kam, Chau-Kiu Cheung, Wing-Tai Chan |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 21, no 5, September 1999 |
| Pages | pp 627-656 |
| Keywords | Practical politics ; Elections ; Participation ; Attitude ; Social characteristics [elderly] ; Social surveys ; Hong Kong. |
| Annotation | Using Hong Kong as a case study, this article considers whether senior citizens are rational in their voting behaviour, whether they are mobilised by political parties to participate in elections, and whether they are enabled or constrained in fulfilling their political responsibilities and asserting their political rights. The findings of a recent study are presented which examine these factors. Seven composite scales measuring their political participation, sense of civic-mindedness, self-interest orientation, political knowledge, political mobilisation, and constraining and enabling factors were constructed and validated in the study. Statistical analyses showed that political knowledge, political mobilisation, and enabling factors were most influential in affecting level of political participation. The article also compares the responses of older people who are members of senior centres with those of ordinary senior citizens. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991021215 A |
| Classmark | VL: VLE: TMB: DP: F: 3F: 7DR |
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