Political Participation

traditional participation
- voting
- - voter turnout
- - paradix of voting
- electoral activities
- political voice
civic voluntarism
direct action
civil disobedience
why participate?
who participates?
social capital
- education
- race
- friends and family
- community
political mobilization
issue advocacy
government beneficiaries
grassroots
astroturf
dog whistling|
why not participate?
- alienation
- institutional barriers
- complacency
- shifting mobilization patterns
- burden 
new techniques
- social media
- din
- clicktivism