The Relationship between the Political Communication and the Political Participation of the Voters in Nakhon Ratchasima Area

Abstract

This research has the objective of study about the level of political communication and study of Political Participation and study of correlation between the Political Communication and the Political Participation of the Voters in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. The research methodology by Quantitative research, the sampling group that using in this research is the voter who residing in Nakhon Ratchasima Province of 400 voters sampling by Stratified random sampling that is a portion type, has collected the data by questionnaire, analyzed the data by frequency, percentage, means, standard deviation and Pearson’s moment correlation analysis with the result as the followings: 1. Political communication of the sampling group in overall was in a much level when consider by side is found that political communication via new media was in a first ascending level and was in a most level secondary is political communication via television, via newspaper, and via radio broadcast were in a much level respectively. 2. Political participation of the sampling group in overall was in a much level when consider by side is found that correlation with the political party has the level of political communication in a first ascending and was in a much level secondary is role of the reporter about voting and role in the communication that participate in political was in a much level. 3. Political communication and political participation of the voter in Nakhon Ratchaisma Province in overall has correlation level in positive with high level in significant statistic level of 0.05.