2007
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2007.00714.x
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Reflections and findings on the critical citizen: Civic education – What for?

Abstract: Abstract.  The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe proclaimed the year 2005 the ‘European Year of Democratic Citizenship through Education’, but the question is: What does the democracy‐promoting citizen look like? This article focuses on the question of whether satisfied and supportive citizens or critical citizens have attitudes that promote democracy. The discussion of this question is based on empirical results from a survey of German citizens (N = 2,000), applying bivariate and multivariate me… Show more

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“…Moreover, critical citizens have sometimes been regarded as an asset to a vital democracy. The idea of public criticism as a resource for democracy has become widely accepted in the past two decades (Geissel, 2008: 36; see also Klingemann, 1999;Norris, 1999;Axtmann, 2001;Dalton, 2002Dalton, , 2004.…”
Section: Participation and Passivity: A General Concernmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Moreover, critical citizens have sometimes been regarded as an asset to a vital democracy. The idea of public criticism as a resource for democracy has become widely accepted in the past two decades (Geissel, 2008: 36; see also Klingemann, 1999;Norris, 1999;Axtmann, 2001;Dalton, 2002Dalton, , 2004.…”
Section: Participation and Passivity: A General Concernmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is therefore insufficient to focus on political support when discussing the origins and implications of political dissatisfaction as has often been the case in previous literature (Dalton, 2004;Norris, 2011). As others have noticed, it is also necessary to consider the subjective political empowerment of citizens to appreciate why people are dissatisfied with politics and what manifestations their grievances can take (Almond andVerba, 1963/1965;Gamson, 1968;Stoker, 2006;Geissel, 2008). The second hypothesis concerned the possibility of identifying groups of citizens based on these two dimensions (cf.…”
Section: Discussion Of the Resultsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…While this classification is not necessarily the only fruitful typology of political dissatisfaction (cf. Geissel, 2008), it shows that this approach is viable in comparative research and it may shed new light on the causes and consequences of political dissatisfaction. Future research ought to examine the usefulness of different typologies based on a wider range of empirical indicators.…”
Section: Discussion Of the Resultsmentioning
confidence: 98%
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