Institutionalizing Political and Civic Engagement on Campus

Hoffman, Adam

doi:10.1080/15512169.2015.1047101

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“…Research shows that politics‐oriented courses influence the nature of young citizens’ political engagement in the years following college graduation (Amadeo, Torney‐Purta, Lehmann, Husfeldt, & Nikolova, ; Beaumont, Colby, Ehrlich, & Torney‐Purta, ; Hillygus, ; Niemi & Junn, ). Moreover, colleges use a variety of programs—including service learning opportunities, internships, voter registration efforts, and loan forgiveness—to equip and enable students to participate in public‐oriented activities (Anft, ; Bowman, Denson, & Park, ; Hoffman, ). Without the support of government programs, nonprofit colleges, and universities (and their public counteparts) would not be able to deliver citizenship‐enhancing resources and civic skills that foster political engagement among students and graduates.…”

Section: Developing Civic Skills and Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion

Goss¹,

Barnes²,

Rose³

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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Policy feedback scholarship has focused on how laws and their implementation affect either organizations (e.g., their resources, priorities, political opportunities, or incentive structures) or individuals (e.g., their civic skills and resources or their psychological orientations toward the state). However, in practice the distinction between organizations and individuals is not clear‐cut: Organizations interpret policy for individuals, and individuals experience policy through organizations. Thus, scholars have argued for a multi‐level model of feedback effects illuminating how policies operating at the organizational level reverberate at the individual level. In this theory‐building article, we push this insight by examining how public policy influences nonprofit organizations’ role in the civic life of beneficiaries. We identify five roles that nonprofit organizations play. For each role, we draw on existing research to identify policy mechanisms that either enlarge or diminish nonprofits’ capacity to facilitate individual incorporation and engagement. From these examples, we derive cross‐cutting hypotheses concerning how different categories of citizens may need policy to operate differently to enhance their civic influence; whether policy that is “delivered” through nonprofits may dampen citizens’ relationship with the state; and how the civic boost provided by policy may be influenced by the degree of latitude conferred on recipient organizations.

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Section: Developing Civic Skills and Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion

Goss¹,

Barnes²,

Rose³

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Education remains a change mechanism for transforming the knowledge and skills of students (Handa, 2018;Toukan, 2018) to acquire humanistic values that are necessary to transform societies and meeting the goals of SDG4. Additionally, the mission of HEIs should include an effort to develop civic engagement practices among students (Boland, 2014;Hoffman, 2015;Hylton, 2018;Forestiere, 2015) in order to build them into responsible adults.…”

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Students as partners in the promotion of civic engagement in higher education

Owusu‐Agyeman

Fourie‐Malherbe

2019

Studies in Higher Education

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The development of the knowledge and skills of students can only be complete when the tenets of civic engagement are inculcated in them to respond to the needs of society. However, due to the weakening role of higher education institutions to develop a university ethos that stimulate civic interest and participation among students, it has become necessary to examine the aspects that enhance civic engagement. Using social-cognitive and transformative learning theories, we examined six major aspects namely, civic knowledge, civic skills, civic culture, cultural diversity, social responsibility and, students as partners to reveal the sets of relationships and antecedents that enhance civic participation among students. We relied on a mixed method approach for gathering and analysing data from students in an HEI setting in Ghana (n=261).Results revealed that cultural diversity experience, social responsibility, and students as partners represent important aspects for stimulating civic participation among students in HEIs.

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“…This state of affairs is in contrast to America where there is a longer tradition of universities and political science academics engaging in activities that prepare students to participate and take leadership roles in society through civic engagement (e.g. Ehrlich, 1999, 2000; Ferman, 2012; Hoffman, 2015; Huerta and Jozwiak, 2008; Jacoby, 2009; McCartney et al, 2013; Strachan, 2015). And while such an imperative could arguably be traced back to the founding of the United States, it was in the 20th century that the notion of civic duty took greater hold, being influenced by the work of John Dewey on the importance of experiential learning in establishing engaged citizens (Benson et al, 2007; Dewey, 1916, 1933).…”

Section: Lessons From Americamentioning

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Making and remaking the political: Lessons from the US experience of civic and political engagement in the teaching of political science

Blair

2017

Politics

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This article sets out the case for the need for a greater level of academic debate by UK political scientists with regard to the teaching of civic and political engagement. Drawing on lessons from the United States, the article notes the relative absence of debate by UK scholars on these matters. This is despite similar concerns about levels of civic and political activity within society. The article argues that a greater focus on civic and political engagement in the teaching of political science would improve the overall health of the discipline, enhance levels of student knowledge and understanding, as well as responding to wider societal concerns.

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Institutionalizing Political and Civic Engagement on Campus

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion

Bringing Organizations Back In: Multilevel Feedback Effects on Individual Civic Inclusion

Students as partners in the promotion of civic engagement in higher education

Making and remaking the political: Lessons from the US experience of civic and political engagement in the teaching of political science

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