Papers on the determinants of political involvement by Gabor Toka

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Tóka, Gábor, and Tania Gosselin, forthcoming in 2010. “Persistent Political Divides, Electoral Volatility and Citizen Involvement: The Freezing Hypotheses in the 2004 European Election.” West European Politics 33 (3).

Tóka, Gábor, forthcoming. “The Impact of Everyday Political Talk on Political Knowledge and Voting Correctly.” In The Role of Political Discussion in Modern Democracies in a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Ken’ichi Ikeda, Laura Morales and Michael Wolf. London: Routledge.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu, 2009. “Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge.” EUI Working paper series, RSCAS 2009/66. Florence: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

[with Marina Popescu]. “Public Television, Private Television and Citizens’ Political Knowledge.” Paper prepared for presentation at the 2009 EPCR Joint Sessions of Workshops in Lisbon, Portugal, 15-19 April 2009.

Tóka, Gábor, 2009. "Expressive vs. Instrumental Motivation of Turnout, Partisanship and Political Learning." in The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, edited by Hans-Dieter Klingemann. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

[with Tania Gosselin] “The Impact of Cleavages on Political Participation and Electoral Volatility.” Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 4-6 June 2008.

[with Marina Popescu] “The Impact of Media and Party Systems on the Making of Informed Election Outcomes.” Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, 4-6 June 2008.

[with Patricia Noonan Walsh] “Civic Participation and People with Disabilities.” Presentation at the conference on People and Parliament in the European Union in the Context of the 2009 Elections at the European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 5 March 2008.

Tóka, Gábor, and Marina Popescu. 2007. “Inequalities of Political Influence in New Democracies.” International Journal of Sociology 37 (4): 67-93.

Tóka, Gábor. “The Impact of Cross-Cutting Cleavages on Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association at Philadelphia, 27-31 August 2003.

Tóka, Gábor. 2003. “Can Voters be Equal? A Cross-National Analysis. Part 1.” The Review of Sociology 9 (2): 51-72.

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. "Voter Inequality, Turnout and Information Effects in a Cross-National Perspective." Helen Kellogg Institute Working Paper Series No. 297. Notre Dame, IN: The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Tóka, Gábor. 2002. “Issue Voting and Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe.” in Bürger und Demokratie in Ost und West. Studien zur politischen Kultur und zum politischen Prozess - Citizens and Democracy in East and West. Studies in Political Culture and the Political Process, ed. by Dieter Fuchs, Edeltraud Roller, and Bernhard Wessels. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, pp. 169-85.

Tóka, Gábor. “Negative Information and Citizens’ Political Involvement.” Paper prepared for presentation at the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops at Turin, Italy, 22-27 March 2002.

Tóka, Gábor. 2000. "Politikai ismeretszint és választói magatartás: Magyarországon nemzetközi összehasonlításban (Political Knowledge and Voting Behaviour: Hungary in Cross-National Comparison)." in Társadalmi Riport 2000 (Social Report 2000), ed. by Tamás Kolosi, István György Tóth, and György Vukovich. Budapest: TÁRKI, pp. 573-90. (In Hungarian.)

Tóka, Gábor. 1998. "Party Positions." in Comparative Politics: The Problem of Equivalence, ed. by Jan W. van Deth. London: Routledge, pp. 180-204.

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