Making campaign contribution is a form of conventional participation. Conventional participation to a certain degree is a routine behavior that practices the well-established institutions of representative government most especially campaigning for candidates and voting elections. Conventional participation includes is voting, volunteering for a political campaign, making campaign donations, belonging to activist groups, serving in public office, displaying a campaign poster in the front yard and writing letters to public officials. For most people, involvement take place every few years at election time and people are strongly dedicated to politics are more to be expected to participate on a regular basis.
