The ‘Good European Citizen’ Congruence and Consequences of Different Points of View

Deth, Jan W. van

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“…But it is the framings by relatively elite actors that are most often public, and that both enable and constrain the manner in which citizenship is 'lived' by ordinary citizens. It is therefore crucial to address the nature of specific framings of the good citizen, and the tensions that are inherent in them (Van Deth 2009). These frames provide the roles through which specific acts, status and virtues of citizenship are performed.…”

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Framing the Good Citizen

Pykett

Saward

Schaefer

2010

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article interrogates the norms of good citizenship invoked in and across different social domains, using the example of citizenship education in the UK as one field in which good citizenship is constituted. It is possible to make visible the political struggle inherent in the mechanisms of framing the good citizen by unpacking the differences between citizenship as acts, status and virtues. This is a necessary step in assessing good citizenship claims in the absence of moral and political absolutes. We deploy a two-tiered account of Butler's theory of performativity to examine how ordinary citizenship acts are preceded by elite rhetorical framing. We conclude that citizenship, like democracy, is always enacted in particular contexts in which positioning, method and motives play an important part. IntroductionOur aim in this article is to contribute to the important task of bringing to the debate on good citizenship greater theoretical depth and empirical richness. We interrogate the norms of good citizenship invoked in different social domains and extend our analysis across as well as within particular domains, using the example of citizenship education in the UK to illustrate our argument. At the centre of our efforts is the specification of a framework for analysing invocations of the good citizen. The aim of this style of analysis is to reveal or unmask the making of conceptions of the good citizen and good citizenship. The good citizen is a figure who is 'framed', or set up, by political and academic observers alike; framed in the sense of viewed from a certain perspective, and in the different sense of set up for a particular purpose (to contribute to a sustainable society or cohesive community, for example). Indeed, the frames constitute ideas of the good citizen and the desired practices that flow from that: there is no single normative ideal outside frames. By deploying an interpretative methodology, it is our intention to make visible the political struggle inherent in the practices and mechanisms of framing the good citizen, and to speculate on the possibility of assessing such claims in the absence of moral and political absolutes.We argue that a focus on good citizenship means a focus primarily on acts of citizenship, showing how key actors performatively construct both the content (approaches) and products (domains) of good citizenship, indicating a constitutive relationship between 'elite' representations and 'ordinary' performative acts of citizenship and their specific contexts. As we will go on to elaborate, the invocation of the good citizen is twofold: the frame itself is produced through elite actions (the constitution of a domain and an approach) and in turn provides the repertoires of possible acts and social roles that are deemed to be 'good', as performed by ordinary would-be citizens themselves. Analysts therefore need to embrace the inevitable plurality of conceptions of the good citizen, and would benefit from a specific set of linked concepts that can genuinely help us to map and ...

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Framing the Good Citizen

Pykett

Saward

Schaefer

2010

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…However, it is unclear how associations stimulate these positive outcomes for young people, society, and democracy. Do adolescents with certain political attitudes self-select into associations or do associations socialize adolescents to become “good citizens”, that is, adolescents who are interested in politics and have high levels of trust and tolerance (van Deth, 2009)? This article aims to untangle this relationship by using a representative panel of Belgian adolescents surveyed in 2006 and 2008 at the ages of 16 and 18, focusing on membership in deliberative associations.…”

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Socialization or Self-Selection? Membership in Deliberative Associations and Political Attitudes

Quintelier

2012

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

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Since de Tocqueville’s visit to the United States, it has become common knowledge that people in civic associations are more civic minded: They display higher levels of political interest, tolerance, and social and political trust. The question remains, however, whether young people are socialized through associations or self-select into associations. This article aims to untangle this relationship, using a representative panel of 16- and 18-year-old Belgian students by focusing on deliberative associations. The results show that both self-selection and socialization effects play a role with respect to political interest but not for other political attitudes and that long-lasting engagement and membership in multiple associations have the strongest socializing effect.

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“…A inclusão das variáveis individuais mostrou que quem mais faz uso do voto são aqueles com maior escolaridade, mais idade, integrados socialmente à comunidade nacional (em termos de religião dominante e do sentimento de orgulho pelo país), que acreditam na lisura do sistema político (que as eleições são limpas) e que são portadores de uma adesão normativa à democracia. Tais características fazem parte daqueles que seriam os atributos típicos de um "bom cidadão", na forma como teorizado por alguns autores (Dalton 2008;Van Deth 2009). O que não esperávamos era o efeito positivo da insatisfação econômica sobre o comparecimento, uma constatação sem precedentes na literatura.…”

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Comparecimento eleitoral na América Latina: uma análise multinível comparada

Ribeiro

Borba

Silva

2015

Rev. Sociol. Polit.

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Resumo Pela sua centralidade no regime democrático, a participação eleitoral é objeto privilegiado de muitos politólogos. Em geral, os estudos se voltaram para a realidade dos países desenvolvidos, abordando, entre outros temas, o comparecimento eleitoral e seus determinantes. Poucas são as pesquisas que contemplam, pelo menos de forma consistente, os regimes democráticos de terceira onda, especialmente os latino-americanos. Procurando contribuir para suprir essa lacuna, o presente artigo procurou mapear os determinantes do comparecimento eleitoral na América Latina, rompendo com a dicotomia macro versus micro, integrando-as em um único modelo analítico. Foram utilizados dados do Latinobarômetro, em sua rodada de 2009, dos quais extraímos as variáveis de nível micro (individual) e uma base de dados com informações macro dos países onde vivem os eleitores. Essas últimas medidas sintetizam a situação da economia dos países, características do seus sistemas eleitorais e a situação das liberdades políticas e individuais, entre outras. Os dados foram combinados em um modelo de regressão logística multinível com o uso do software HLM 6.8. A dimensão ecológica se mostrou importante, sendo que o aumento da população urbana implica o aumento das chances do eleitor comparecer, enquanto que a elevação do PIB implica redução nessa probabilidade. Do ponto de vista da configuração do legislativo, ser bicameral reduz as chances de comparecimento dos eleitores às urnas. Além disso, a obrigatoriedade do voto eleva expressivamente o comparecimento eleitoral. Quanto às variáveis individuais, o aumento dos anos de vida é acompanhado pelo aumento da participação eleitoral, assim como a escolaridade. Da mesma forma, ser favorável a democracia promove a propensão a participar do pleito, bem como considerar que as eleições ocorrem de forma limpa e transparente. O artigo contribui para o debate ao focalizar as eleições latino-americanas, já que estudos desse tipo têm sido conduzidos apenas nas democracias consolidadas. Sua relevância é ainda reforçada em razão da identificação de algumas importantes discrepâncias em relação aos resultados normalmente encontrados nesses contextos de longa tradição democrática, como os efeitos negativos do PIB e da efetividade governamental. Por fim, o que os dados indicam é que o comparecimento eleitoral na América Latina é a “voz” dos cidadãos portadores de maiores recursos, que valorizam a democracia e suas instituições, mas que estão insatisfeitos com a economia e que vivem em contextos de baixa efetividade na atuação dos governos.

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The ‘Good European Citizen’ Congruence and Consequences of Different Points of View

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Framing the Good Citizen

Framing the Good Citizen

Socialization or Self-Selection? Membership in Deliberative Associations and Political Attitudes

Comparecimento eleitoral na América Latina: uma análise multinível comparada

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