Political Participation: Voting, Protests, and the Puzzle of Decline

In the last lecture, the focus was on political behaviour, political culture, and political socialization—the difference between what people do, what they believe, and how they learn those beliefs.

This episode goes deeper into one special kind of behaviour: political participation. The goals are threefold: to define participation, to distinguish conventional from unconventional forms, and to explore why voting has declined in much of the Caribbean even while protests have increased.