Relationships among the civic awareness,mobilization, and electoral participation of elderly people in Hong Kong |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, China;1. Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain;2. Centro de Investigación Biomedica En Red-Enfermedades Respiratorias (CibeRes, CB06/06/0028), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain;3. Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain;4. Intensive Care Medicine, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain;5. Department of Pneumology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia, Spain;6. Department of Pneumology, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain;1. School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, 20 Cornwall Street, Woolloongabba, QLD 4102, Australia;2. School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia;3. School of Science and Health, University of Western Sydney, Penrith, NSW, Australia;4. School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia;1. Division of Trauma, Surgical Critical Care and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA;2. Department of Surgery, Texas Health Presbyterian, Dallas, TX, USA;3. Division of Trauma, Department of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care and Burns, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, USA |
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| Abstract: | Given the significance of the elderly population in the burgeoning democratic politics of Hong Kong, research is necessary to elucidate the basis for elderly people’s electoral participation. Furthermore, questions regarding impacts of mobilization, and civic awareness on the participation are of important concern. In response to the questions, the present study is the first one surveying a representative sample of 831 Chinese elderly people (aged > 60) in Hong Kong. Using causal modeling techniques, it identified latent variables of civic awareness (including exposure to media on public affairs and political knowledge), electoral participation, and mobilization by politicians and estimated their relationships. Results showed that civic awareness had a strong effect on electoral participation and mobilization also had some significant effect. Electoral participation also appeared to be a function of the elderly person’s education, age, sex, community attachment, and membership in an elderly center. These findings suggest that Hong Kong elderly people’s electoral participation is subject to influence of power, both internally through civic awareness and education and externally through mobilization. |
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