Guest Editor's Introduction: Political Voice in Europe

Abstract

Abstract This special issue of the International Journal of Sociology explores political voice in Europe from qualitative and quantitative methods. Political voice is the expression of interests in the political sphere and refers to both participation and representation. The four papers of this special issue feature recent work from political sociologists at the Graduate School for Social Research, Polish Academy of Sciences and include case studies of the Czech Republic, Ukraine, and Russia, and a cross-national study of Europe. Taken together, these studies explore how voice operates in authoritarian and democratic regimes, and transitions between them.