Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science and political theory, but the term has now outlived its usefulness and exemplifies Giovanni Sartori’s worry about conceptual “stretching. ” This article traces civic engagement’s ascension as a catch-all term for almost anything that citizensmight happen to do together or alone, and illustrates the confusion that its popularity has occasioned. It proposes that civic engagementmeet a well-deserved end, to be replaced with amore nuanced and descriptive set of engagements: political, social, andmoral. It also examines the appeal of engagement itself, a term that entails both attention and energy. Attention and energy are the mainsprings of politi...
This presentation conceptualises mediatised civic participation to support the study of the media pr...
In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activiti...
The values of social and civic engagement have long been objects of theoretical interest, at least f...
Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science a...
In this article, we explore several ideas focusing on civic engagement. It is emphasized that today ...
Why do people take part in social and civic life? There is clearly no simple answer for two reasons...
a volume in Research on International Civic Engagement Series Editors Erik Bergrud, Park University ...
This article presents an overview of current understandings in the study of political and civic enga...
Reviewing the literature on political participation and civic engagement, the articleoffers a critic...
This is the 2000-01 Eckstein Lecture at the Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine. This pape...
Despite the impression that civic engagement is largely apolitical, there is growing evidence to sug...
BOOK ABSTRACT: Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technol...
The majority of academics studying the field of civic engagement would concurrently agree that there...
Based upon a three-year multidisciplinary international research project, the volume examines the in...
For “civic engagement ” work to have meaningful and long-term impact upon students, partners, and po...
This presentation conceptualises mediatised civic participation to support the study of the media pr...
In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activiti...
The values of social and civic engagement have long been objects of theoretical interest, at least f...
Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science a...
In this article, we explore several ideas focusing on civic engagement. It is emphasized that today ...
Why do people take part in social and civic life? There is clearly no simple answer for two reasons...
a volume in Research on International Civic Engagement Series Editors Erik Bergrud, Park University ...
This article presents an overview of current understandings in the study of political and civic enga...
Reviewing the literature on political participation and civic engagement, the articleoffers a critic...
This is the 2000-01 Eckstein Lecture at the Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine. This pape...
Despite the impression that civic engagement is largely apolitical, there is growing evidence to sug...
BOOK ABSTRACT: Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technol...
The majority of academics studying the field of civic engagement would concurrently agree that there...
Based upon a three-year multidisciplinary international research project, the volume examines the in...
For “civic engagement ” work to have meaningful and long-term impact upon students, partners, and po...
This presentation conceptualises mediatised civic participation to support the study of the media pr...
In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activiti...
The values of social and civic engagement have long been objects of theoretical interest, at least f...