'Linking Institutions' and Political Participation.

This paper seeks to explore the effect of 'linking institutions'-- political parties, unions, churches and non-governmental organizations-on political participation. Using a unique set of contextual data that measure organizational density by state and/or county, and that links these data to the geocoded responses in the 2006 Latino National Survey, the paper will contribute to our understanding on the link between organizations and individual electoral and non-electoral participation. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]