Explaining Romanies’ high abstentionism: socialization effects and political interest
Acta Politica - Trang 1-30 - 2023
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While a large and growing body of work has explored the effects of minority representation, Europe’s oldest minority has been overlooked. Previous studies have shown that social exclusion and abstention rates in districts with a high Romani population are inflated (Carmona in Sociol Hist 10(1):174–205, 2019). Still, no individual data has ever been used to understand Romanies’ participation in politics. Combining a pool of datasets covering Romanies in Spain with district and municipal level data, we comprehensively study Romanies’ turnout. Controlling for several individual and district variables, we find that Romanies vote less, are less interested, and think that elections are less useful than the rest of the Spaniards. Our results suggest that socialization plays a role. Both living in a Romani district and following evangelism affect the reasons given by Romanies to never participate in politics: while those who live in Romani districts declare to abstain because of thinking that elections are useless, those who live in non-Romani neighborhoods declare to abstain because they are non-interested in politics.
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