In this article, Oana Lup (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu) uses survey data collected in a comparative, cross-country study (Comparative National Election Project) to analyze the relationships between people’s embeddedness in either strong or weak social networks and their likelihood to participate in elections in countries with different length of democratic experiences. The results indicate that exclusive exposure to similar political views, either in strong or weak social networks, increases the likelihood of voting, while exposure to a mix of similar and dissimilar political views has a mobilizing role when occurring in weak networks, in countries with a longer democratic past.