In the face of the intense ongoing theoretical and methodological debate about political participation within Political Sociology, our purpose is to map the international literature that deal with proposals of classificatory typologies to be applied on the modalities of political participation. The outcomes of the debate are of paramount importance for the discipline to strengthen its analytical capability to grasp the transformations occurring in the universe of participation. The paper ends with a set of methodological proposals for the advancement of research studies in the field.
Political Participation; Political Culture; Comparative Politics
