 | Angus Campbell, University of Michigan. Survey Research Center - 1980 - 576 pages
...that their participation carries some weight in the political process (Table 17-9). We conclude, then, that moralistic values about citizen participation...of some personal competence vis-a-vis the political world. Belief in personal efficacy is one of the more prominent attitudes mediating turnout. Its weakness... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1995 - 298 pages
...What was their explanation for this difference in voting and perceived ability to affect the system? "[W]hat has been less adequately transmitted to the woman is a sense of some personal competence vis a vis the political world."29 In this view women are ineffective citizens not through inherent... | |
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The conclusion is clear, then, that although "moralistic values about citizen participation in democratic government have been bred in women as in men, what has been less adequately transmitted to the woman is a sense of some personal competence vis-a-vis... 