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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"civic participation"”.
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Making Good Citizens: Policy Approaches to Increasing Civic Participation
… explore the impact of several public policies on civic participation. Using a unique combination of school administrative and public–use voter files and methods for causal inference, I evaluate the impact of three new, as of yet unexplored, policies: one informational, one institutional, and one …
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Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT
… in inequality can decrease overall group participation, and an individual's distance from the characteristics of an ideal community member can also decrease the benefits and likelihood of participation. The theory predicts, however, that increasing the responsiveness of civic bodies to …
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Inequality and Civic Participation in the Rocky Mountain West: Missoula, MT
… in inequality can decrease overall group participation, and an individual's distance from the characteristics of an ideal community member can also decrease the benefits and likelihood of participation. The theory predicts, however, that increasing the responsiveness of civic bodies to …
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Can foreign donors build social capital? : civil society assistance and civic participation sub-Saharan Africa
… is related to the changes in the level of civic participation in the 18 sub-Saharan countries. Firstly, I measure civil society assistance between 2005 and 2009 employing OECD aid statistics, and measure the subsequent change in the level of civic participation by comparing the civic …
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Who you are, where you go, and who you know: a study of civic participation of youth in Chicago neighborhoods
… violence, various psychosocial factors, and civic and community engagement was examined utilizing data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Results indicate that civic engagement by youth in their late teen years was the best predictor of community engagement (both …
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The politics of regulation and the South African sex industry : an interest group analysis of power and civic participation in public policy on adult commercial sex work
… is an interest group analysis of power and civic participation in public consultations on adult commercial sex work1 and legal reforms in South Africa. It determines the interests, the strategies and tactics2 employed, as well as power relations between interest groups in the social policy …
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Aspiring to Citizenship: African Immigrant Youth and Civic Engagement in Cape Town, South Africa
… Town activate citizenship and belonging through civic participation or engagement, often in the absence of formal citizenship. Contrary to claims of immigrant youth as inherently problematic, youth are actively deciding to be the change they want to see in the world surrounding them, looking …
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The Urban Poor, Civic Governmentality and the Problem of Participation
… (SA SDI) Alliance, as initiators of civic participation in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The SA SDI Alliance is made up of four organisations namely the Community Organization Resource Centre (CORC), Utshani Fund, the Informal Settlement Network (ISN) and the Federation of the Urban Poor …
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Understanding political and citizen participation on digital platforms for civic mobilization. Analysis of cyber-activism in Spain through Change.org
… traditional processes of political and civic participation in Spain. Citizens display their indignation with the political elite and public institutions and aim to find new opportunities to get involved in the democratic community (Stoker, 2006; Hay, 2007; Presno Linera, 2012; …
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The Impact of Water on Girls' Formal Education: A Study of Kenyan Secondary Schools
… achieving gender equality in both education and civic participation.</p>
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"""We don't call it Bristol Park"": engaging African American youth in urban neighborhood redevelopment planning"
… economic, and systemic barriers to civic participation in neighborhood redevelopment, and their absence from the process was apparent locally. An innovative method of a youth “lock-in” with a late night basketball competition and talent show was used to attract youth participants and …
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Policy making and civic involvement: Apathy or impotence?
… discusses the current problems surrounding civic participation. Conventional political wisdom tells us that many people have become apathetic when it comes to getting involved in politics. However, I will argue that policy makers misconstrue their perception of the public because they are …
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Adolescent Male Perspectives’ on Civic Engagement: A Pilot Study on Youth Conceptualization of Citizenship and Social Participation in Southern Trinidad
<p>This pilot study examines the understanding of civic engagement among socio- economically disadvantaged adolescent males in the Anglophone Caribbean, a critically under- researched population. This inquiry is necessitated by acute observations of the structural inequalities embedded in Trinidad …
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Community health decisions: An analysis of a grassroots venture into citizen participation in health care policy prioritization issues
… Decisions," provides us a description of a civic participation movement into the health care political arena; It would appear that with the conclusions of this author, we might learn more from the declared values on health care by the individual citizens than from a governmental body of …
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A vindication of fallen women : Victorian women writers reconceiving gender.
… of women’s reproduction, education, civic participation, and queer friend/kinship, these authors rehabilitate “fallen” women of the nineteenth century by creating an ideology of gender in which that rehabilitation is no longer necessary. By tracing how women novelists engage …
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Impact of Protestant spirituality and religious community on the well-being of people in Hong Kong
… in life satisfaction, social trust and civic participation. The different religious contexts exhibited different dimensions of spirituality and well-being, suggesting that the impact is not only direct but also dependent on and intertwined with the religious setting. Path analyses …
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Can Urban Gardening be a Case for Neighborhood Infrastructure Reparation The Case for Cambridge, Massachusetts
… citizens that are at risk of being isolated from civic participation, Such as senior citizens and the unemployed and underemployed. Food gardens, if properly planned, can become an important transitional zoning tool to design new spaces, and also an important social place that fosters civic life …
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Exploring Catholic Social Teaching in Diocese of Austin Catholic High Schools: A Constructive Grounded Theory
Voting rates and civic engagement of young adults in the United States have gained notice in recent years for their relatively low percentages. Meanwhile, research has shown a positive relationship between Catholic high school graduates and civic participation, including volunteering, voting, and …
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Afro-Latinx Transnational Identities: Adults in the San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Area
… a strong identity construction contributes to civic participation. I conducted ethnographic observations of three community events, fifteen semi-structured interviews, and fifteen surveys. The findings from this study may provide clarity for individuals serving to act on these conditions and …
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