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Elizabeth Brooks - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the health implications of Civic Association in russia
Social Science & Medicine, 2012Co-Authors: Debra Javeline, Elizabeth BrooksAbstract:Abstract Can Civic and political participation influence health outcomes, and if so, does the general aversion to joining community activities have some connection to poor health outcomes in Russia? Using data from surveys of 18,000+ urban Russians conducted from 2003 to 2005 and controlling for a wide range of variables, we find that individuals who join collective Civic and political activities report better health than non-joiners and that living in a participatory community may enhance one’s health, regardless of one’s own participation.
Debra Javeline - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the health implications of Civic Association in russia
Social Science & Medicine, 2012Co-Authors: Debra Javeline, Elizabeth BrooksAbstract:Abstract Can Civic and political participation influence health outcomes, and if so, does the general aversion to joining community activities have some connection to poor health outcomes in Russia? Using data from surveys of 18,000+ urban Russians conducted from 2003 to 2005 and controlling for a wide range of variables, we find that individuals who join collective Civic and political activities report better health than non-joiners and that living in a participatory community may enhance one’s health, regardless of one’s own participation.
Jebavá Anna - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Analysis of the change in the content of town hall periodicals after the municipal elections in 2018
2020Co-Authors: Jebavá AnnaAbstract:This bachelor's thesis addresses the transformation of the content of town hall periodicals after the municipal elections in 2018. The thesis is theoretically based on the amendment to the Press Act, which obliges publishers of local government periodicals to provide objective and balanced information. When creating the methodology, I was inspired by a study of the Civic Association Oživení from 2014, whose authors analysed 100 periodicals published by local governments in order to assess the balance of information provided and the degree of self- promotion of the management of these local governments. Using the method of quantitative content analysis, I analysed five Czech town hall periodicals. The aim of the work is to reflect a possible change in the content of town hall periodicals after a change in the composition of the political management of self-governing units, and thus to find out how much this composition affects the final product
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Analysis of the change in the content of town hall periodicals after the municipal elections in 2018
Univerzita Karlova Fakulta sociálních věd, 2020Co-Authors: Jebavá AnnaAbstract:Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá proměnou obsahu radničních periodik po komunálních volbách v roce 2018. Práce teoreticky vychází z novely tiskového zákona, která vydavatelům periodik územně samosprávných celků dává povinnost poskytovat objektivní a vyvážené informace a zároveň poskytovat zastupitelům přiměřený prostor pro vyjádření týkající se samosprávně územního celku. Při vytváření metodiky jsem se inspirovala studií občanského sdružení Oživení z roku 2014, jejíž autoři analyzovali 100 periodik vydávaných územně samosprávnými celky s cílem zhodnotit vyváženost poskytovaných informací a míru sebepropagace vedení těchto celků. S pomocí metody kvantitativní obsahové analýzy jsem analyzovala pět českých radničních periodik. Cílem práce je reflektovat případnou změnu obsahu radničních periodik po změně složení vedení samosprávných celků, a tedy zjistit, na kolik má toto složení vliv na výsledný produkt.This bachelor's thesis addresses the transformation of the content of town hall periodicals after the municipal elections in 2018. The thesis is theoretically based on the amendment to the Press Act, which obliges publishers of local government periodicals to provide objective and balanced information. When creating the methodology, I was inspired by a study of the Civic Association Oživení from 2014, whose authors analysed 100 periodicals published by local governments in order to assess the balance of information provided and the degree of self- promotion of the management of these local governments. Using the method of quantitative content analysis, I analysed five Czech town hall periodicals. The aim of the work is to reflect a possible change in the content of town hall periodicals after a change in the composition of the political management of self-governing units, and thus to find out how much this composition affects the final product.Katedra mediálních studiíDepartment of Media StudiesFaculty of Social SciencesFakulta sociálních vě
Amber L Seligson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Civic Association and democratic participation in central america a test of the putnam thesis
Comparative Political Studies, 1999Co-Authors: Amber L SeligsonAbstract:In an attempt to build on and refine Putnam's thesis that participation in Associations produces better democracy, this article seeks to determine two things. First, are his findings replicable in Central America? Second, is participation in all forms of Associations equally generative of democracy, as Putnam suggests? In this study, Putnam's thesis is tested with survey samples drawn from all of the six Spanish-speaking countries in Central America. The author finds that although participation in community improvement Associations is a consistent predictor of democratic behavior at an individual level, participation in other kinds of Associations is not.
Kimberly Lanegran - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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south africa s Civic Association movement anc s ally or society s watchdog shifting social movement political party relations
African Studies Review, 1995Co-Authors: Kimberly LanegranAbstract:In April 1994, South Africans of all racial and cultural groups abandoned the dehumanizing experiment in physical, economic and political separation of races, apartheid, by conferring political power and authority on their new democratically elected government. The constitutional, institutional and legal changes to the South African state which brought the African National Congress (ANC) to power constitute the most extensive and closely watched example of the many efforts at democratic reform in Africa in the 1990s. While South Africa's new legal structure and peaceful transition of power via a popular election may encourage many to simply eagerly pronounce South Africa a “democracy,” much Africanist literature encourages caution before such a judgment. Africa's and Latin America's attempts at democratization are replete with abandoned constitutions, resurrected careers of corrupt discredited politicians, political parties which grow authoritarian and chop off their popular roots, military leaders who overthrow civilian regimes and reformist governments which quickly repeat the sins of their predecessors. Consequently, many scholars look skeptically on constitutional reforms (Decalo 1992) and mere “cracks in the edifice of autocracy” (Bratton and van de Walle 1992, 421) to suggest that the institutionalization of legitimate and accountable political leadership requires a vehicle through which citizens can participate in policy-making debates—a vibrant civil society. This article probes one vital feature of South Africa's civil society—the relationship between the ANC and the Civic Association Movement, which was one social movement central to the insurrectionary liberation struggle carried out within South Africa. The ANC owes its current political power, in large part, to the sacrifices and dedicated efforts of members of the Civic Association Movement who mobilized black township residents to demand political reform and rectification of the misdeeds perpetrated against them by the white administration.