Citizenship, Civic Memory and Urban Performance:Mission Wall Dances

Civic Associations and Urban Communities

Civic Learning in Changing Democracies: Challenges for Citizenship and Civic Education

The times, they are a changing in long established European and North American democracies. Alarming numbers of young citizens seem to have turned their backs on government and conventional politics. It appears that contemporary politics in most societies increasingly fail to capture the interest and attention of young citizens, who are generally skeptical of politicians and party affiliation, ...

Struggling for Citizenship Civic Participation and the State in Russia

This paper discusses the shifting relationships between civic organizations and the state in contemporary Russia. Drawing on a case study of the provincial city of Tver, the paper explores how local activists and authorities interpret citizenship and draw the state-society boundaries at the juncture between the Socialist past and the capitalism of today. The paper argues that the authorities ad...

Measuring Civic Knowledge among Young Adolescents in the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study

Citizenship and recovery: two intertwined concepts for civic-recovery

BACKGROUND Validation of the psychometric properties of a new measure of citizenship was required for a research project in the province of Quebec, Canada. This study was meant to study the interplay between recovery- and citizenship-oriented supportive employment. As recovery and citizenship were expected to be two related concepts, convergent validity between the Citizenship Measure (CM) and ...