a beacon of good governance in the region, decades of free and fair elections and extensive civil liberties failed to engender public support for democracy following the March 2012 coup d’état. Demonstrations against the military junta were half as large as demonstrations in support of it. What looked to be strong democratic institutions from the outside were often hollow shells that privileged...

background: citizenship education is increasingly considered as an important strategy to empower youths in taking responsibilities and playing their individual and social roles, and to protect them against psychosocial pathologies. the purpose of the present descriptive study was to investigate students’ levels of knowledge,  their intention, subjective norms, and attitudes toward the character...

Normative multiagent systems as a research area can be defined as the intersection of normative systems and multiagent systems. Since the use of norms is a key element of human social intelligence, norms may be essential too for artificial agents that collaborate with humans, or that are to display behavior comparable to human intelligent behavior. By integrating norms and individual intelligen...

extended abstract introduction participation, as the key element in achieving development goals especially civic development, has considerable importance. when people have much more participation in affairs, it is more possible to be successful. in these societies, low and deprivated class of society will benefit from participation results and its advantages. from the other hand, these days, p...

Anti-corruption reforms introduced in Latin America the last decade require active citizenry. In particular, efforts to strengthen transparency laws assume citizens are able identify, condemn, and denounce corrupt acts. Thus, tolerance of corruption among is problematic for these institutions. Using data from IEA’s International Civic Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) 2016, this chapter analyz...

Effective civic education. Testing an educational effectiveness model for explaining students' achievement in civic and citizenship education. Abstract The intended study aims at testing a causal model for " effective civic education " based on the Comprehensive Model of Educational Effectiveness developed by Creemers (1994) in relation with secondary school students' achievement in civic and c...

We explore the idea that prosocial behavior in laboratory games is driven by social norms imported into the laboratory. Under this view, heterogeneity in behavior across subjects is driven by heterogeneity in sensitivity to social norms. We introduce an incentivized method of eliciting individual norm-sensitivity, and we show how it relates to play in public goods, trust, dictator and ultimatum...