Abstract

Even though it has been rather a lot studied that to what extent participation to politics is occurred with regard to general politics, the studies relating to levels and means of political participation at local level remains relatively weak. This paper aspires to reveal the aspects of participation of voters to local politics in Edirne. In parallel with this goal, firstly, certain qualitative and quantitative characteristics of voters are specified, such as age, gender, level of income, level of education. Then, the relation between these characteristics and political participation at local level is tried to be proved by some hypothesis tests. The results suggested that the higher the level of education or the level of income, the more intensive the participation to local politics. It is also deduced that political participation of voters differs according to neighbourhood they settle in. The evaluation of political participation is based on A. Robert Dahl’s typology of political participation picked out amongst others in the literature and questionnaire form tried to be generated in accordance with the typology.