ABSTRACT
Political participation has been a central concept in the study of political science, and has as such been studied much. Even today, the concept is a debated one: while some scholars argue for a more narrow focus of participation, others advocate a more inclusive concept. In this chapter, I aim to review some of the literature on participation and outline how it is understood here, taking account of the study’s universe of cases – minimal democracies over a period from 1980 to 2005.
