Health and Political Engagement.

• Superior document: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Series
• Author: Mattila, Mikko.
• TeilnehmendeR: Rapeli, Lauri.; Wass, Hanna.; Söderlund, Peter.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2017.; ©2018.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (139 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: health and political engagement -- Health and inequality -- Health: definition and trends -- Defining political engagement -- The Finnish context -- Data -- Plan of the book -- References -- 2 Theoretical framework -- Previous research -- Health and political participation -- Health and ideology -- Disability and political participation -- Aggregate-level studies -- The current state of research -- A theoretical framework for connecting health and political engagement -- Resource theory -- Self-interest theory -- Theories of social context -- References -- 3 Health and political participation -- Introduction -- Health in the funnel model of political participation -- Theoretical expectations -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- 4 Health and political orientations -- Introduction -- Interest, efficacy and satisfaction with democracy -- Political trust and knowledge -- Left-right orientation -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Health and the social context -- Introduction -- Theoretical expectations -- Analysis -- Social networks, health and political engagement -- Collective identity, health and political engagement -- Conclusions -- References -- 6 Health and political participation from a cross-national perspective -- Introduction -- Cross-national health gaps in political participation -- Estimations of health gaps in political participation -- Theoretical predictions: context, health and turnout inequality -- Compulsory voting -- Voting facilitation -- Party vs candidate-centred electoral systems -- Number of parties -- Share of left-wing parties -- Trade union density -- Economic inequality -- Explanatory analysis of cross-national health gaps in turnout -- Bivariate correlations.

Plotting contextual factors against health effects on turnout -- Multivariate regression -- Conclusions -- References -- 7 Health and political representation -- Introduction -- Health and political preferences -- Measuring opinion congruence -- Analysis -- Conclusions -- References -- 8 Conclusions -- Summary of the main findings -- Hypotheses and theoretical considerations -- Avenues for further research -- Final words: what to do with health-related inequalities in political engagement? -- References -- Appendix: data sources -- Index.