STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

Statistical Analysis

Statistical Analysis

Introduction

The study is related the political apathy which focuses on the phenomena that the political apathy appears to be high in many European societies. Political engagement, interest in political matters, and trust in politicians seem to have sharply declined, with certain social groups showing particularly marked levels of distrust and indifference. Thus, the study focuses on the political apathy of the people.

Overview of Existing Research

Political apathy is a national sentiment in almost all the people, there will surely always have a thought on this subject where every person involved thinks only personal gain, robbing an entire town. This type of political apathy leads to lower people's participation in the vote and even important decisions, because if people do not want to know absolutely nothing about politics for obvious reasons will not vote or participate. Political apathy is a state of indifference, passivity, lack of interest towards politics; it is accompanied by a low responsiveness to political stimuli and low levels of political information. This phenomenon occurs both in democratic and authoritarian, although in both (though different) mechanisms are promoters of political participation. In its formation can affect the poor visibility and difficult access of the political system and some characteristics of political culture (the excessive individualism, for example). Socially widespread political apathy increases the margin for maneuver, the discretion of the ruling classes, except when achieving the proposed goals requires a high level of social mobilization. Therefore in most cases the person who wins a place in our government does not deserve it and start doing some tricks with the power that has obtained, and worst of all is that the same people who complain are not voted or who simply do not care to use their right to vote or comment on their leaders (Pasek, 2011).

The democratic ideal is based on the concept that political power proceeds from the sovereign people. It cannot be democracy without involvement of citizens, hat is without active citizen. This is why political citizenship postulates not only the enjoyment of civic rights attached to citizenship (the right to vote, eligibility, civil liberties, and access to positions of responsibility) but also the duty to be involved in political life, to participate. From this point of view of being a citizen has a dual legal and normative dimension. It also has a dimension of identity: it tells me who I am, I belong to the same political community (Agar, 1968).

How to define political participation? There can be no participation if you do not feel involved in a group, without a sense of belonging, without some means of being heard - institutional means yes, but also personal resources. The material dependence, lack of knowledge, feelings of incompetence, a situation of exclusion produce apathy. A situation of exclusion may also feed on the reactions of rejection and withdrawal into particular identities and differentialist. The rise of the so-called exclusion is at the heart of the crisis of political participation, without being of course the ...