New forms of political participation in Spain as a central element in the construction of new models of citizenship: the post-conventional ones

Abstract

This article tries to establish a longitudinal analysis of some of the models of political participation, those susceptible of an analysis of longitudinal cut through the data of the surveys of the Center of Sociological Investigations, contributing a different view of the same ones and throwing conclusions to the regarding the variations in the ways of participating and their repercussions on the models of citizenship. Through this analysis, the connection between the two main elements of interest in this study is established: political participation, new forms of participation, called "post-conventional" and their involvement in models of citizenship, new models of citizenship that generate new forms of involvement in the field of politics. A look that goes through the period between 1980 and 2015, which implies an analysis that starts at the beginning of democracy and that goes through much of the evolution of that Spanish democracy, drowing interesting conclusions regarding the evolution of citizenships and their interactions in the field of politics.