...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...

...politics ... to believe that their participation carries some weight in the political process. ... moralistic values about citizen participation in democratic...men, what has been less adequately transmitted to the women is a sense of some personal competence visa-vis the political world.49 Thus, not only do women...

...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...