Declining civic engagement increasingly strains welfare state institutions. This paper asks whether civic values can be shaped through early educational investments. I study Tax and School, a large-scale program implemented in Italian primary and secondary schools to promote fiscal and civic...

The current monetary policy framework of the Fed intends to be more 'inclusive' by running the economy hot for longer during expansions. The logic of this strategy rests on Okun's (1973) hypothesis that sustaining a 'high-pressure economy' persistently improves labor market outcomes of low-wage...

Globalization has increased the interconnection and interdependence of countries emerging the so-called Global Value Chains (GVCs). Approaching the economic performance of economies regarding their engagement in GVCs has been often assessed trough the concepts of participation and position in...

How can democratic systems connect deliberation to mass participation? Recent debates on deliberative democracy have sharpened this question by highlighting the tension between the deliberative quality often associated with small-scale forums and the democratic imperative of broad citizen...

This paper investigates the role of gender bias in artificial intelligence-driven analyses of citizen participation, using data from the 2023 Latinobarómetro Survey. The paper proposes that gender bias-whether societal, data driven, or algorithmic-significantly affects civic engagement. Using...

This study investigated the interplay between community-based cultural initiatives conducted by Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) and social innovation. Selecting peer-reviewed open-access articles that focus on the intersection of culture and innovation was the first step in our...

Citizens' e-participation determines the successes and failures of digital government or e-government. However, its results to date have not been satisfactory. IT adoption models dominate previous studies. However, citizens' psychological factors have been overlooked. The field has fallen into...

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

We exploit education reforms in Sweden and other European countries to estimate the causal effects of longer and modernized compulsory education on civic engagement. In most countries, compulsory education was extended by 1-2 years, and the curricula were reformed to better foster democratic and...

We study whether exposure to social movements campaigning against income and gender income inequality shifts individual beliefs about inequality, reshapes preferences for redistribution, and translates into political participation in the UK. Since the Great Recession of the 2010s, the UK has...

Im Beitrag wird die Untersuchung der Partizipationslandschaft in Münster als situatives und komplexes Gefüge von sozialen Welten und Arenen im Kontext transformativer Stadtentwicklungspolitik referiert. Diese bilden im Anschluss an die Methodologie der Situationsanalyse nach Adele Clarke den...

As an example of pedagogical approaches that blend online and face-to-face instruction, the flipped classroom model has seen exponential growth in business schools. To explore its effectiveness, expectancy-value theory and cognitive load theory were employed to develop a framework linking...

Die Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen (kurz: Teilhabesurvey) untersucht die Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderungen und Beeinträchtigungen in unterschiedlichen Lebensbereichen. Der Teilhabesurvey befragt sowohl Personen in Privathaushalten als auch...

To provide the tools, resources, research and methodologies to build capacity and good practice in participatory and deliberative democracy in the European Commission and other EU institutions, and across different levels of governance in the EU Member States. Mainstreaming participatory and...

The Local Development Councils (LDCs) feature a significant participatory governance function in local policy development, as local government units (LGUs) are mandated to constitute LDCs with members from civil society organizations (CSOs). While the Department of the Interior and Local...

Purpose - This paper explores how COVID-19 has impacted the shift from public participation by conventional means to e-participation. Specifically, we investigated to what extent COVID-19 has been a driver for electronic participation in community participatory budgeting, which is a kind of...

This paper investigates how concurrent national and local elections affect the local political participation and competition. Leveraging a quasi-experimental framework provided by Italy's staggered electoral timing, the paper employs a difference-in-differences design. Estimates reveal that...

The aim of the article is to evaluate the position in global value chains (GVCs) of food processing industries in the Visegrad countries (V4; Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia) between 1995 and 2018. To identify the intensity and forms of integration in GVC of these industries in each country...

Researchers, policymakers and the representatives of international organisations increasingly use the term “social contract” to describe relations between societal groups and a state. The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, for example, has declared that “now is the time to renew the...

Public works programmes (PWPs) are widely used social protection instruments in low- and middle-income countries. Participants carry out temporary, labour-intensive works in exchange for cash or in-kind compensation. The available empirical evidence indicates that these programmes are usually...

Researchers, policymakers and the representatives of international organisations increasingly use the term "social contract" to describe relations between societal groups and a state. The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, for example, has declared that "now is the time to renew the social...

Der Beitrag untersucht die wachsende Bedeutung der digitalen Inklusion als Voraussetzung für die Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben in einer zunehmend digitalisierten Welt. Anhand der Metapher der „digitalen Bordsteinabsenkung“ – inspiriert von den abgesenkten physischen...

Das Singen im Chor ist eine musikbezogene Aktivität, die typischerweise gemeinsam mit anderen Mitsingenden und in Präsenz durchgeführt wird. Zahlreiche Studien belegen die positiven Auswirkungen von aktivem Musizieren, und insbesondere Chorsingen, auf die physische und psychische Gesundheit....

In diesem Beitrag wird die zentrale Rolle von Agilität und Partizipation bei der Entwicklung digitaler Assistenztechnologien für Menschen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen untersucht. Flexibilität und iterative Vorgehensweisen ermöglichen eine Anpassung an wechselnde Anforderungen und...

We investigate the effects of consumer-protection regulations limiting post-purchase harm when there are many markets and consumers have limited attention to examine prices or product features. Such regulation lowers the attention necessary for valuable purchases, which can allow a consumer to...

The objective of this research synthesis is to collect and summarize the research literature on Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland. This is done through a systematic review, mostly in the form of a narrative review and with statistical indicators that are synthesized. A graphical summary...