Civic Participation

Free service which advises politically independent candidates on how to become councillors in England and Wales. Information about voting and election procedures, campaign tips, and FAQs.

Online publication by Stephen Coleman and John Gøtze reporting on citizen engagement with government, technologies for electronic participation, and UK and global case studies.

Organization founded by Ralph Nader that recruits and trains citizen activists, and directs them to focused action campaigns. Focuses on the issues of democracy, justice, globalization, environment, equality, freedom, and peace. Includes mailing list, calendar, current projects, and tools for organizing.

Works to activate punks and other disenfranchised young people to participate in elections and to build a coalition of informed voters who can individually and collectively influence public policy. Includes news, guest columns, cartoons, and stickers and flyers available for download.

A 6-part questionnaire which plots the taker's political positions on a four-point compass and plots estimates for the positions of 20th century leaders and mid-1990s British politicians.

Description of the participatory budgeting model used in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Housed at The University of Southern Mississippi. Core activities include after-school programs, service-learning, tutoring and mentoring, and civic leadership development throughout the state.

Promoting common sense government through citizen activism.

For America, politics is a crucially important dimension of civic life. ... a pattern of declining civic participation in America and concludes that ...[2008/11/19]

Civic Participation and Politics. EPN's Recommended Links. The Tocqueville Files ... Civic Participation Virtual Library. Online Bibliographies and Resource Lists ...[1997/04/01]

insurance crisis, even declining civic participation itself – seems to have gotten lost in the ... Politics & Political Participation at New Lows ...[2006/05/05]

... that politics and political participation are a necessary part of civic life in America, ... participation in civic activities, as well as their knowledge ...[2003/08/20]

CIVIC ORDER: PARISH PARTICIPATION, POLITICS, AND CIVIC. PARTICIPATION. by David C. Leege ... Politics. Linking Parish Life, Political Values, and Civic Life ...[1999/12/17]

... the importance of social contexts for local civic participation, ... understanding of citizen participation and democratic politics. Most research on citizen ...[2002/05/12]

sively, Robert Putnam's analysis of national data on civic participation con ... differing effects on various forms of civic participation and social capital. ...[2007/09/20]

AMERICAN POLITICS RESEARCH / MONTH XXXX. Uslaner, Brown / CIVIC ENGAGEMENT ... Participation in political and civic life has long been stratified by ...[2006/11/02]

makes valuable contributions to civic participation and ... participation in politics, especially for the poor and for minorities. For ...[2007/07/24]

... politics and political participation are part of any of their current civic ... and politics, discourages early participation in formative civic-relat ...[2004/04/30]