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Kenneth Prewitt

Researcher at University of Chicago

Publications -  23
Citations -  797

Kenneth Prewitt is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 21 publications receiving 788 citations.

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School Experiences and Political Socialization: A Study of Tanzanian Secondary School Students

TL;DR: Prewitt and Court as mentioned in this paper investigated the effect of different school-related experiences on social leanring in Tanzania and found that different experiences had different effects on the formation of citizenship values.
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Social Bias in Leadership Selection, Political Recruitment, and Electoral Context

TL;DR: The meaningful participation of the electorate in the selection of public officials is, in many respects, a defining characteristic of democratic politics It is, of course, not the only characteristic; and moreover, a characteristic that is not independent of other social phenomena that shape the process of leadership selection as mentioned in this paper.
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Foundations as Mirrors of Public Culture

TL;DR: The early large-scale foundations took their cue from the progressive movement and a rationalistic approach to social reform as discussed by the authors, and the pattern has been to be early followers rather than initiators as evident in the history of funding for environmentalism, feminism, or multiculturalism.