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"The art of associating": The central role of peers in civic life.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"The art of associating": The central role of peers in civic life.
Author:	Klofstad, Casey A.
Description:	168 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1940.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Political Science, General.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3173951
ISBN:	9780542113987

"The art of associating": The central role of peers in civic life.
Klofstad, Casey A.

"The art of associating": The central role of peers in civic life. - 168 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1940.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

The manuscript concludes with a discussion of normative implications. This discussion offers a mixed assessment of peer influence. Peers can pull us into civic life, but the conversations we have in our peer groups are probably not ideal forms of deliberative discourse. Furthermore, peer group deliberation might be an effective way to address local level policy issues, but this process would likely produce undesirable outcomes on the national level. Regardless, because of the significant role that they play, this project shows that in order to understand the nature of contemporary participatory democracy we must continue to increase our understanding of peer influence.

ISBN: 9780542113987Subjects--Topical Terms:

212408
Political Science, General.

"The art of associating": The central role of peers in civic life.
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520 # $a The results of this study show that conversations about politics and current events with our peers can cause us to become more civically active. This is largely the case because peers recruit us to participate. These data also show that traditionally underrepresented members of the American public can be mobilized to participate in civic life thorough conversations with their peers. This suggests that unlike other sources of civic mobilization, peers can have a democratizing effect on who participates in the governing process. Finally, these data also show that peers can be as, or even more, influential than more remote agents of politicization such as political parties and interest groups.
520 # $a This manuscript examines the impact that the individuals with whom we hold close interpersonal relationships with (our "peers" or our "social network") have on how we participate in civil society. Further research is needed in this area because existing data sources do not allow us to prove that there is a causal relationship between interactions with peers and individual civic behavior, nor do they allow us to determine what mechanisms drive this relationship. This manuscript makes use of new survey data that were collected from first year undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. These data allow for a more effective analysis of peer influence because they measure behavioral change over time in a population that was (nearly) randomly assigned to their peer groups.
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