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Category Archives: Civic engagement
Civic Life in the Divided Metropolis: Social Capital, Collective Action, and Residential Income Segregation
Social capital is presumed to help individuals who lack financial or human capital achieve collective action through their social ties and networks of relationships. But does it help individuals overcome their socioeconomic disadvantages relative to their wealthier neighbors, or does … Continue reading
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Class Disparities in Youth Civic Engagement
Recent research finds that there is a growing class gap in levels of civic engagement among young whites in the United States. Much of the literature on civic engagement focus on the individual‐ and family‐level factors related to civic engagement. … Continue reading
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Engaging Citizens: A Review of Approaches to Civic Engagement
Twenty years ago, Robert Putnam wrote about the rise of “bowling alone,” a metaphor for people participating in activities as individuals instead of groups that can lead to community. This led to the decline in social capital in America. The … Continue reading
Posted in Civic design, Civic engagement, Motivation, Social media
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Building Connectedness within Civic Networks
Civic networks of community-based organizations face significant challenges in working together to combat issues facing their community (e.g., gang violence, sex trafficking). In our research, we examined how local organizations tried to build and maintain connectedness over time as a … Continue reading
What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?
The topic of youth civic engagement is increasingly popular in social science research; however, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not well understood. This article addresses the following questions: What motivations and … Continue reading
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Civic Crowdfunding – Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place
Crowdfunding, the raising of capital from a large and diverse pool of donors via online platforms, has grown exponentially in the past five years, spurred by the rise of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. While legislative attention in the US has turned … Continue reading
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The Civic Web: Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join political parties, to campaign for social causes, or to trust political processes. Young people in particular are … Continue reading
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Shifting Involvements: Private Interest and Public Action
Why does society oscillate between intense interest in public issues and almost total concentration on private goals? In this classic work, Albert O. Hirschman offers a stimulating social, political, and economic analysis dealing with how and why frustrations of private … Continue reading
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Democracy in Motion: Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civiv Engagement
Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of … Continue reading
Real democracy – Greece
Read We are ordinary people. We are like you: people, who get up every morning to study, work or find a job, people who have family and friends. People, who work hard every day to provide a better future for … Continue reading
Posted in Citizenship, Civic engagement, Civil society, Democracy, Greece, Social movements
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