| alienation | A feeling of personal powerlessness that includes the notion that government does not care about the opinions of people like oneself.
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| apathy | A feeling of personal noninterest or unconcern with politics.
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| civic duty | The belief of an individual that civic and political participation is a responsibility of citizenship.
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| political participation | Involvement in activities intended to influence public policy and leadership, such as voting, joining political parties and interest groups, writing to elected officials, demonstrating for political causes, and giving money to political candidates.
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| registration | The practice of placing citizens' names on an official list of voters before they are eligible to exercise their right to vote.
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| social (political) movements | Active and sustained efforts to achieve social and political change by groups of people who feel that government has not been properly responsive to their concerns.
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| social capital | The sum of face-to-face interactions among citizens in a society.
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| suffrage | The right to vote.
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| voter turnout | The proportion of persons of voting age who actually vote in a given election.
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