Political Consumerism – A New Phenomenon of Political Participation? An Exploratory Study in Canada, Belgium and Sweden Dietlind Stolle McGill University Montréal dietlind.stolle@mcgill.ca Marc Hooghe Free University Brussels Marc.Hooghe@vub.ac.be Michele Micheletti Stockholm University michele.micheletti@statsvet.su.se W O R K I N P R O G R E S S Paper prepared for the ECPR Joint Sessions, Edinburgh March 28-April 2, 2003 Workshop 8: “Changes in Political Involvement. Disenchantment, Mobilisation and Election Turnout”