Association and Community

Immerfall, Stefan; Priller, Eckhard; Delhey, Jan

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“…However, this is not valid for all types of future civic participation: students from the new democracies tend to have higher anticipated informal participation. The later could be explained with the existence of only formal, strictly organized, state-controlled and mandatory civic participation in communist countries and the suppression of any autonomous activities by the state (see Coffé & van der Lippe, 2009;Letki, 2004;Schwartz & Bardi, 1997) which led to less formalized and community-based forms of engagement (Immerfall et al, 2010). Even within a single domain of civic participation the new democracies exhibit differences in regard to different activities (higher or lower).…”

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“…For example, data from the the CivED study indicate that levels of trust in government-related institutions are lower in former East Bloc countries and Portugal than the international average (Torney-Purta, 2002a). Furthermore, in Western European countries highly institutionalized forms of civil society are found, while in Southern and Eastern Europe it is more typical to find the less formalized forms of village community, extended clans or other types of social networks, that is, less formalized organizations in comparison to the ones in the West (Immerfall, Priller, & Delhey, 2010). Other studies (see Coffé & van der Lippe, 2009) have also shown that former East Bloc countries have lower levels of participation.…”

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Youth Future Civic Participation in Europe: Differences Between the East and the Rest

2013

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European countries were economically and politically separated during the Cold War, but since its end processes of globalization and the formation of the European Union have contributed to blur the borders. Previous studies suggest that the social transformations have affected differently civic participation of youths, but shortage of more recent data has precluded researchers from examining the differences in a country-comparative fashion. Along these lines, this paper has two main objectives: to explore the differences in the levels of expected civic participation across Europe, and to evaluate the fit of a theoretical model of civic participation in regard to the different points in time their democracies were established. To achieve these goals, data from 22 European educational systems (9 post-communist and 13 established democracies) participating in the International Civic and Citizenship Study (ICCS 2009) conducted by International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) is used. The results, in accordance with the literature, suggest differentiated patterns of future civic participation between the new and established democracies, but they are not that clear, suggesting that convergence between the two groups is ongoing. However, the tested empirical model of civic participation functions in a better way in the established than in the new democracies. In contrast with previous findings, differences in levels of expected civic participation seem to be related not only with the countries' experience with democracy, but also with their cultural similarities and common history.

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Youth Future Civic Participation in Europe: Differences Between the East and the Rest

2013

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“…Comparative studies throughout Europe show that there are different forms and distributions of social capital (e.g., Pichler and Wallace 2007). Immerfall et al (2010) have clustered European countries on the basis of their findings on societal engagement and highlight an East-West divide which can be traced back to the early stage of democracy in Eastern Europe. Ken Newton and Sonja Zmerli (2011) have analyzed different forms of trust and their associations most precisely to come to sophisticated conclusions regarding the social and political stability of countries.…”

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The Austrians’ expectations for the future

Prandner

Aschauer

Moosbrugger

2020

Österreich Z Soziol

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Building on the knowledge that Europe is currently experiencing a high level of pessimism about the future, this article seeks to explain why Austrians view their own future as well as the country's future with either pessimism or optimism. Both "futures" are often framed differently: A personal one that still seems to be under control and a societal one, which is perceived to be uncontrollable. Thus, social unease is higher than personal unease. Using structural equation modelling and data from the "Sozialer Survey Österreich", indicators of social integration were found to be influential predictors. Results furthermore indicate an underlying explanation, tied to perceptions of societal malaise vs societal wellbeing, driving the opinions on the future in specific directions.

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“…), merges with a local culture based on a low civic (social and political) engagement. This is the case of southern European countries, compared with other European societies (Immerfall et al 2010). Even more so, if these countries are experiencing a time of economic decline in which opportunities of access to institutional means are reducing.…”

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Southern European Pathways across the Great Recession

Maddaloni¹

2017

AJSS

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The aim of this paper is to define a typology of individual and collective reactions to the Great Recession, which is affecting southern European societies from 2010. Building on A. O. Hirschman's attempt to frame individual and collective behaviors in response to a condition of decline, the paper maintains that they can be understood mostly in terms of a number of pathways based on different attitudesexit, voice, loyalty, and neglect. In addition, R. K. Merton's social strain theory is used to clarify some aspects of the complex relationships between societal and cultural macrodynamics and micro reactions.

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Association and Community

Cited by 9 publications

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Youth Future Civic Participation in Europe: Differences Between the East and the Rest

Youth Future Civic Participation in Europe: Differences Between the East and the Rest

The Austrians’ expectations for the future

Southern European Pathways across the Great Recession

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