Capital, Privilege and Political Participation

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911020412703321
• Autore: Greenwood-Hau Joe
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : British Academy, , 2025; ©2025
• ISBN: 1-83624-946-2; 1-83624-947-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (334 pages)
• Collana: British Academy Monographs
• Disciplina: 277.3083089
• Soggetti: Privilege (Social psychology); Privilege (Social psychology) - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Political Participation, Privilege, and Capital -- Considering the Context -- Overview of the Book -- 1 Unequal Political Participation -- Commonplace for Some -- What Is Political Participation? -- What Drives Participation? -- Unpacking Who Participates -- Towards Structural and Perceived Privilege -- 2 Structural Privilege -- Inequality and Privilege -- Capital and Politics -- Capital, Class, and Privilege -- 3 Perceptions of Privilege -- The Importance of Perceptions -- Perceptions, Inequality, and Politics -- Perceptions of Groups and Status -- Status, Explanations, and Political Participation -- Accounting for Perceptions of Privilege -- 4 Political Participation and Non-Participation -- Diversity in Participation and Non-Participation -- A Note on How the Research Was Conducted -- More and Less Explicitly Political Participation -- Supporting Organisations -- Undertaking Political Acts -- Barriers to Participation -- Personal Constraints on Participation -- Systemic Disincentives to Participation -- Negative Images of Politics -- A Participatory Gap and a Perceptual Bridge -- 5 Economic, Social, and Cultural Capital -- The Many Forms of Capital -- Economic Capital -- Social Capital -- Cultural Capital -- The Importance of Capital -- 6 Perceptions of Society, Self, ; and Politics -- Perceiving Privilege in Different Contexts -- Perceptions of Privilege in Society -- Perceptions of Own Privilege -- Perceptions of Privilege in Politics -- Four Components of Perceptions of Privilege -- 7 Politics as a Distinguished Activity -- The Many Factors in Political Participation -- Economic Capital and Political Participation -- Social Capital and Political Participation.; Cultural Capital and Political Participation -- Perceptions and Political Participation -- Politics as a Distinguished Activity -- 8 Is Participation a Consequence or a Component of Privilege? -- A Causal Conundrum -- The Mediating Role of Capital? -- The Mediating Role of Perceptions of Privilege? -- Politically Relevant Capital -- A Conundrum Unanswered -- Conclusion and Solutions -- Capital, Perceptions of Privilege, and Political Participation -- The Relationship between Privilege and Participation -- Overcoming Barriers to Participation -- Appendices -- A Privilege and Participation Survey Representativeness -- B Interview and Focus Group Details -- C Index Variable Distributions -- D Regression Results -- References -- Index.