Research has long suggested that higher education leads to liberalisation in students'
sociopolitical orientations (eg, Feldman & Newcomb, 1969; Newcomb, 1943/1957; …

Evidence suggesting that the growth of civic roots in adolescence may be crucial to the long-
term development of citizenship has stimulated research into factors that might influence …

In this article, we reexamine the concept of generation as it has been used in the social and
behavioral sciences and its utility for present-day research on human development. This is …

The hallmarks of cultural behavior include consistency within and across individuals,
variance between populations, behavioral stickiness, and possibly suboptimal performance …

The literature on gender and political action comes in two forms—one that is aggregate,
sometimes institutional, and often centered historically, and one that is individual and largely …

After suffering years of war, Bosnia is now the target of international efforts to reconstruct and
democratize a culturally divided society. The global community's strategy has focused on …

The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical
transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an …

The study examines simultaneously the effects of age, generation and period in the Finnish
parliamentary elections of 1975–2003 based on pooled data from Finnish Voter Barometers …

Reliance on quantitative work has led to understudy of the “underlife” of the classroom. We
observed six 11th and 12th grade history and government classrooms, twice a week, for a …

Aktivt medborgarskap är ett ledord i svensk demokratipolitik. Jämlikt deltagande i politiken är
ett annat. Skolan anförtros en viktig politisk roll i detta avseende. Läroplanen påbjuder att …