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Ostensibly, high-minded ideals like civic responsibility, the potential for reform, and the power of collaborative effort are responsible for the election’s outcome. If you listen closely enough you might even even hear people debating the issues in our dining halls. But, for College students at least, there seems to be little substance and even less permanence to this involvement...
...outline how the neighborhoods weather demographic changes, the professors use a simple theoretical construct—Albert O. Hirschman’s theory of exit and voice. The theory, originally developed for firms, argues that in places where loyalty is high—due to strong civic institutions, Wilson and Taub say—residents resort to “voice,” meaning that they stay and try to preserve their neighborhoods...
...Legalize Same-Sex Marriage” (98,930).Turnout of young voters—those between ages 18 and 29—jumped from 20 percent in 2002 to at least 24 percent in 2006, according to preliminary data from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, based at the University of Maryland. That increase was powered by at least 2 million more youth voters.“Young people are at the vanguard of new technology and they are the hottest new voters,” said David C. King, associate director of the Institute...
...Commercial activity in most of New Delhi's residential areas is forbidden, but the restrictions have been ignored for decades as the city struggled to accommodate an exploding population. In recent years, however, civic groups fed up with haphazard development petitioned the Supreme Court to enforce the law-and won. But the clean-up campaign could inconvenience customers, disrupt neighborhoods, and put hundreds of thousands of people out of work. One of them is Vijay Sehgal, 47, proprietor of a wristwatch shop that is slated to be closed. "I don't know what I'm going to do," says Sehgal...
...thought he was a guy you could talk to and approach in plain terms,” said Ray Mellone, chairman of the Allston Civic Association Harvard Task Force...