Misunderstood Civic Duty: The Center Party and the Enabling Act

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Menke
Keyword(s):  
Civic Duty ◽  
Center Party

Let’s Clean Up and Bring Some Order Here! Moral Regulation of Markets in Yaoundé, Cameroon

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Aurélie Toivonen ◽  
Ignasi Martí
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Moral Regulation ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Situated Practice

This study examines activities and processes through which projects of moral regulation are implemented as well as lived, transformed, and resisted by their targeted actors. Our ethnographic study focuses on discourses and practices of civic duty for orderly and hygienic conduct in the rehabilitation of marketplaces in Yaoundé, Cameroon. By drawing on the inhabited institutions approach and the literature on ethics as practice, our analysis extends research on moral work to put forward a perspective on moral regulation as a situated practice. We show how moral work is built on individual reflections but is simultaneously negotiated through actors’ relationships, that is, responsibilities to family, interactions within the community, and personal history.

Civic duty and career outcomes in a career-based system: a two-wave, multisource study

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Fabian Hattke ◽  
Judith Hattke ◽  
Fabian Homberg ◽  
Rick Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Career Outcomes ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
System A

scholarly journals Shared Partisanship, Household Norms and Turnout: Testing a Relational Theory of Electoral Participation

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 807-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Fieldhouse ◽  
David Cutts
Keyword(s):  
Party Identification ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Relational Theory ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
Empirical Tests ◽  
Partisan Identification ◽  
Consumption Benefits ◽  
The Individual

Previous research shows that the household context is a crucial source of influence on turnout. This article sets out a relational theory of voting in which turnout is dependent on the existence of relational selective consumption benefits. The study provides empirical tests of key elements of the proposed model using household survey data from Great Britain. First, building on expressive theories of voting, it examines the extent to which shared partisan identification enhances turnout. Secondly, extending theories of voting as a social norm, it tests whether the civic norms of citizens’ families or households affect turnout over and above the social norms of the individual. In accordance with expectations of expressive theories of voting, it finds that having a shared party identification with other members of the household increases turnout. It also finds that the civic duty of other household members is important in explaining turnout, even when allowing for respondent’s civic duty.

“If you didn’t take a selfie, did you even vote?”: Embodied mass communication and citizenship models in “I voted” selfies

2022 ◽  
pp. 146144482110689
Author(s):  
Chelsea P Butkowski
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Communication Practices

After participating in US elections, voters have begun to share “I voted” selfies, or networked self-portraits that display their political participation. “I voted” selfies exist at the intersection of competing ideals of citizenship, including dutiful citizenship, which centers civic duty and voting, and self-actualizing citizenship, which focuses on individualized and expressive forms of political participation. I argue that these images can be understood through historically resonant communication practices, namely, as a mediated manifestation of 19th-century political congregations that I term embodied mass communication. To trace how voters perform embodied visions of citizenship through shared practices of digital self-representation, I conducted a content analysis of “I voted” selfies posted to Twitter on US Election Day 2016. In these selfies, voters present their bodies as civic evidence, frame individual representations to signify visual collectives, and creatively contextualize their political participation. Their selfies suggest how representational rituals can reflect and reconstitute citizenship models.

Civic Duty and Political Preference Formation

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 199-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin J. Mullinix
Keyword(s):  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Preference Formation ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Political Preference ◽  
Citizen Competence ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
Policy Information

While a sense of civic duty has long been perceived as important for political participation, little is known about its implications for political preference formation. I argue that civic duty has salubrious effects for opinion formation by dampening partisan distortions in decision making. I theorize that a heightened sense of civic duty stimulates a motivation to form “accurate” opinions and, in doing so, diminishes the effects of partisan motivated reasoning. Using survey experiments focused on tax and education policies, I provide evidence that when civic norms are accentuated, at times, people shirk party endorsements and incorporate substantive policy information in preference formation. The implications for citizen competence and public opinion in democratic politics are discussed.

How do beliefs and institutional context influence the portability of political and civil society behaviours among New Zealand return migrants?

2019 ◽  
pp. 144078331988829
Author(s):  
Louise Humpage
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Institutional Context ◽  
Personal Beliefs ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Home Context ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
History Narratives

Qualitative life-history narratives investigating the portability of political and civil society beliefs/behaviours of 42 New Zealand returnees help us to understand why some citizens engage in political and civil society activities while living overseas and on return. Personal beliefs such as civic duty, rights and self-interest are strongly associated with the portability of political and civil society behaviours. Yet findings also support theories of exposure, indicating that political/civil society learning can occur across the ‘migration life course’ and challenge resistance theory arguments that a break in participation inhibits political engagement later in life. Although civil society engagement is shaped more by self-interest than altruism overall, most returnees failed to volunteer as a way of better integrating on their return as many had overseas. Thus, the ‘ home’ context can inhibit citizenship engagement, reducing the benefits New Zealand could reap from exposure to new ideas, places and people while overseas.

scholarly journals THE RESEARCH OF STUDENTS'PERSONAL MATURITY AS A CONDITION OF SUCCESSFUL PROFESSIONAL SELF-REALIZATION

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Vinnyk
Keyword(s):  
Achievement Motivation ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Moral Self ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
Civic Duty ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Personal Qualities

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the phenomenon of «personal maturity». Personal maturity is defined as a dynamic process of learning new values, making responsible choices, unconditional acceptance of other people, objective awareness of the normative-values image of oneself, the ability to reflect personal qualities, one’s own actions, and the ability for moral self-control of interactions. There are presented a diagnostic method and empirical results of the study. The empirical research was being conducted with authored method of N. Vinnyk. For that the Y. Gilbuh personal maturity questionnaire has been modified and tested. The method consists of five scales: achievement motivation, attitudes towards one’s «I» (the «I» − concept), sense of civic duty, life attitude, the ability for psychological proximity with another person. It was stated that although most students have satisfactory level of personal maturity, quantitative analysis of separate scales has revealed significant shortcomings. So the scale that assesses the «I»-concept, which presents such important characteristics of a person as self-confidence, satisfaction with their own abilities, personality, and their competence have the lowest scores. This was also confirmed by the unstable «too low» life attitude of students. It was noted that the students’ personal maturity is interrelated with their professional self-realization. Activation of formation of the personal maturity of students is possible in conditions of organization of purposeful cognitive activity, in which individual, group and collective forms of work are combined, aimed at the content of awareness and development of responsibility, independence, self-control, emotional maturity, goal-setting and professional self-realization.

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