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| Conventional Participation |
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| Relatively routine political behavior that uses institutional channels and is acceptable to the dominant culture |
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| Actions of private citizens by which they seek to influence or support government and politics |
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| Unconventional Participation |
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| Relatively uncommon political behavior that challenges or defies established institutions and dominant norms |
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| Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents |
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| unconventional participation that involves assembling crowds to confront businesses and local governments to demand a hearing |
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| Action that expresses allegiance to government and country |
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| Behavior that seeks to modify or reverse government policy to serve political interests |
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| A legal action brought by a person or group on behalf of a number of people in similar circumstances |
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| The percentage of eligible citizens who actually vote in a given election |
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| A philosophy of political reform based on the goodness and wisdom of the individual citizen as opposed to special interests and political institutions |
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| A preliminary election, run by the state government, in which the voters choose each party's candidates for the general election |
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| The process for removing an elected official from office |
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| An election on a policy issue |
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| A procedure by which voters can propose an issue to be decided by the legislature or by the people in a referendum. It requires gathering a specified number of signatures and submitting a petition to the designated agency. |
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| Standard Socioeconomic Model |
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| A relationship between socioeconomic status and conventional political involvement: people with higher status and more education are more likely to participate than those with lower status |
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