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Explain the meaning and modes of political participation. What are the factors preventing people’s participation in politics in India?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Politics and Society

Political participation covers the activities through which ordinary citizens try to influence the choice of rulers and what those rulers do. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie (Participation in America, 1972) defined it in these terms. It ranges from voting to protest, and it is the main link between society and the state in a…

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