| alienation | A feeling of personal powerlessness that includes the notion that government does not care about the opinions of people like oneself.
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| apathy | A feeling of personal disinterest in or unconcern with politics.
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| civic duty | The belief of an individual that civic and political participation is a responsibility of citizenship.
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| political participation | Involvement in activities intended to influence public policy and leadership, such as voting, joining political groups, writing to elected officials, demonstrating for political causes, and giving money to political candidates.
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| registration | The practice of placing citizens’ names on an official list of voters before they are eligible to exercise their right to vote.
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| social (political) movements | Active and sustained efforts to achieve social and political change by groups of people who feel that government has not been properly responsive to their concerns.
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| social capital | The sum of the face-to-face interactions among citizens in a society.
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| suffrage | The right to vote.
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| voter turnout | The proportion of persons of voting age who actually vote in a given election.
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