caa a22 4500 605534500 CHVBK 20210128100843.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10663-015-9292-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10663-015-9292-4 Income distribution and political participation: a multilevel analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Lorenzo Cicatiello, Salvatore Ercolano, Giuseppe Gaeta] An extensive theoretical and empirical literature already investigates the impact of income inequality on citizens' involvement in specific politically-oriented activities such as voting, membership of political groups, participation in political meetings, etc. In order to broaden still further the theoretical perspective on the connection between income inequality and citizens' political participation, this paper links the literature on inequality and political engagement with the one proposing a conceptualization of different forms of political participation. More specifically, this paper proposes a conceptual framework that analyzes how income inequality interacts with individuals' income position in explaining citizens' involvement in conventional and unconventional political activities. The core of the paper focuses on a multilevel mixed-effects empirical analysis carried out on survey data collected by the European Values Study project; its results support the hypothesis that income inequality significantly shapes the effect of household income in determining citizens' forms of political engagement. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Inequality nationallicence Conventional political participation nationallicence Unconventional political participation nationallicence Multilevel analysis nationallicence Cicatiello Lorenzo Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy aut Ercolano Salvatore Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy aut Gaeta Giuseppe Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy aut Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/2(2015-05-01), 447-479 0340-8744 42:2<447 2015 42 10663 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-015-9292-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-015-9292-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cicatiello Lorenzo Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ercolano Salvatore Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gaeta Giuseppe Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Naples L'Orientale, Naples, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Empirica Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 42/2(2015-05-01), 447-479 0340-8744 42:2<447 2015 42 10663