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How a Nonprofitness Orientation Influences Collective Civic Action: The Effects of Civic Engagement and Political Participation
This research addresses the question of how the institutional frame of “nonprofitness” shapes the civic activities pursued by community-based...
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Civic Engagement of Future Citizens: An Insight from Peruvian Students’ Attitudes towards Relevant Societal Issues as Predictors of Expected Conventional Political Participation
Studies that cover civic engagement in adolescents approach its understanding from the cognitive domain of civics and citizenship. However, it is...
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Measuring a Nonprofit’s Civic Footprint
It is widely recognized that nonprofit organizations provide benefits to society such as goods and services that promote social well-being,...
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Does Civic Participation Promote Active Aging in Europe?
The main objective of this research is to understand how civic participation influences the well-being of older people, thus being a key activity of...
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A help or hindrance? Highly educated refugees’ perceptions of the role of civic integration programmes in accessing the labour market in Oslo, Malmö and Munich
Research often focuses on individual-level factors sha** refugee labour market participation. Less research has been conducted on the implications...
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Bowling Alone in Taiwan? Political Trust and Civic Participation of Taiwanese and Their Appraisal of Liberal Democracy and Personal Wellbeing
Based on a nationwide survey dataset collected by Taiwan’s Executive Yuan (2017) (N = 2737) and adopting structural equation modelling with...
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Smoking at the Intersections of Race/Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation
Research has tended to document smoking disparities separately by race/ethnicity and sexual orientation, with relatively less work examining the...
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Data-Based Frictions in Civic Action: Trust, Technology, and Participation
In order to address climate change and persistent air pollution, many cities have developed policy plans to reduce vehicle through-traffic on...
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Controlling civic engagement of youth spanish muslims
This paper focuses on Muslim Civil Society structures and, more specifically, on the gap between the organizations from the first (migrant)...
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Better Local Reception and Civic Integration
Each year a wide variety of immigrants arrive in the Netherlands, from all parts of the world. Some move on after a short time, others shuttle back...
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Christianity and Civic Activism in Postcolonial Hong Kong
This article investigates the resilience of Christian faith-based activism in Hong Kong from the Umbrella Movement (2014) to the mass protests...
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Speaking Acquaintances or Helpers in Need: Participation in Civic Associations and Individual Social Capital
It is widely believed that civic associations are capable to produce social capital, here understood as an individual asset resulting from relations...
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Empowering Students as Citizens: Subjectification and Civic Knowledge in Civics and Citizenship Education
Civics and citizenship education (CCE) can empower young people as citizens. However, CCE is a complex area of school education, with research,...
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The Ideological Orientation of the Green Parties
This chapter is dedicated to answering the question of whether the Greens are a political ideology and, if so, what kind of political ideology they...
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Using the Civic Voluntarism Model to Compare the Political Participation of US and Swiss Social Workers
Various international and national social work ethical principles call social workers to participate in politics, although not all social workers in...
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Who Will Sustain a Culture of Democracy in Post-Communist States? Examining Patterns of Democratic Competence among Youth in Albania and Belarus
Research is mixed on the current state of democratic consolidation in transitioning states and whether young people are prepared to help sustain a...
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Does Culture Make a Better Citizen? Exploring the Relationship Between Cultural and Civic Participation in Italy
In the last decades, policy discussions have increasingly considered participation in arts and cultural activities as a vehicle to reach broader...
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The Impact of Vacant and Abandoned Property on Health and Well-Being: A Qualitative Inquiry
This qualitative study explored the role of neglected properties and neighborhood environment characteristics on a sample of New Orleans, Louisiana...
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Semi-Peripheral Pathways to High-Technology Markets: How Organizational Origins Shape Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Recent technological changes have created new opportunities for small- and medium-sized firms in the semi-periphery to enter digital markets. At the...
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Conclusion: Digital spaces of civic communication
I set out to analyse in what ways the currently much-debated online commenting constitutes spaces for civic and political online communication in...