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Youth Civic Development: Implications of Research for Social Policy and Programs
TL;DR: Flanagan et al. as mentioned in this paper summarized research which points to directions youth programs and policies should follow to achieve these civic goals, and suggested that each new generation of citizens identify with the common good and become engaged members of their communities.
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Ethnic Diversity and Its Effects on Social Cohesion
T. van der Meer,Jochem Tolsma +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that there is consistent support for the constrict claim for aspects of social cohesion that are spatially bounded to neighborhoods, and support for ethnic diversity is more common in the United States than in other countries.
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Social capital and mental health: A comparative analysis of four low income countries
TL;DR: The analysis of the relationship between individual and ecological measures of social capital and maternal CMD in four low income countries shows that individual cognitive social capital is associated with reduced odds of CMD across all four countries, and suggests that structural social capital has context-specific effects and Cognitive social capital more universal effects on maternal C MD.
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The Diffusion of Democracy, 1946–1994
John O'Loughlin,Michael D. Ward,Corey Lofdahl,Jordin S. Cohen,David S. Brown,David Reilly,Kristian Skrede Gleditsch,Michael Shin +7 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between the temporal and spatial aspects of democratic diffusion in the world system since 1946 and found strong and consistent evidence of temporal clustering of democratic and autocratic trends, as well as strong spatial association (or autocorrelation) of democratization.
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Communal Violence and Democratization in Indonesia: Small Town Wars
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the history of identity formation in West Kalimantan and the town beyond Java in Java, and discuss why now? Temporal Contexts.