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Engagement in Civic and Charitable Organizations
Thu, September 15, 10:00 to 11:30am, TBASession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
This panel explores citizens’ engagement in a variety of civic groups, including volunteer, nonprofit, advocacy, and charity initiatives. The papers explore how this type of engagement is related to political polarization, political efficacy, a willingness of members to collaborate and compromise, and the ability of organizations to engage diverse community members. The studies consider the political and cultural contexts for engagement in civic groups.
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Individual Presentations
A New Civic Engagement? Examining Accounts of Polarization as Democratic Crisis - Erika Coe, Indiana Unversity
Charity, Voluntarism, and the Nonprofit State - Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University; James M. Glaser, Tufts University; Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University
Fishing for Activists: How Community Organizing Shapes Partisan Tendencies - Oded Marom, University of Southern California
Getting Rich But Not Giving? Mechanisms Impeding Charitable Giving in China - Reza Hasmath, University of Alberta; Qian Wei, Stanford Philanthropy and Civil Society Center