Burden Barry C, Fletcher Jason M, Herd Pamela, Jones Bradley M, Moynihan Donald P
Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
Associate Professor of Public Affairs, La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
J Polit. 2017;79(1):166-178. doi: 10.1086/687536. Epub 2016 Nov 2.
Physical and mental health is known to have wide influence over most aspects of social life-be it schooling and employment or marriage and broader social engagement-but has received limited attention in explaining different forms of political participation. We analyze a unique dataset with a rich array of objective measures of cognitive and physical well-being and two objective measures of political participation, voting and contributing money to campaigns and parties. For voting, each aspect of health has a powerful effect on par with traditional predictors of participation such as education. In contrast, health has little to no effect on making campaign contributions. We recommend additional attention to the multifaceted affects of health on different forms of political participation.
众所周知,身心健康对社会生活的大多数方面都有广泛影响——无论是上学、就业,还是婚姻及更广泛的社会参与——但在解释不同形式的政治参与方面,它受到的关注有限。我们分析了一个独特的数据集,其中包含一系列丰富的认知和身体健康客观指标,以及两个政治参与的客观指标,即投票和向竞选活动及政党捐款。对于投票而言,健康的各个方面都有强大的影响,与教育等传统参与预测因素的影响相当。相比之下,健康对竞选捐款几乎没有影响。我们建议更多关注健康对不同形式政治参与的多方面影响。