{"title":"Electing Better Politicians: Is It Really Possible?","authors":"C. K. Bens","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21305","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"106 1","pages":"17-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43531287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Institutions Supporting Democratic Communication Among Citizens","authors":"T. Shaffer","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21313","url":null,"abstract":"Since the earliest years of the republic (or even before if we count the colonial period), democratic practices have been woven into the fabric of our formal and informal structures and institutions. Acknowledging grassroots examples of democratic life is critical, but we haven’t always appreciated the important role of institutions in cultivating opportunities and outlets for democratic life and expression. As we seek to both understand and improve civic life, understanding the roles of institutions in both creating opportunities for robust forms of civic engagement and sustaining those efforts is a critical element of cultivating civic spaces and opportunities.","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"106 1","pages":"32-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21313","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47770391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engaging Immigrants at the Local Level","authors":"C. Kimbrough","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"106 1","pages":"42-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21308","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46148092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Candidate Civility and Voter Engagement in Seven Cities with Ranked Choice Voting","authors":"S. John, Andrew J. Douglas","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"106 1","pages":"25-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21307","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42185541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Made a Promise: School-Community Collaboration, Leadership, and Transformation at Promesa Boyle Heights","authors":"Tracie Potochnik, Angela N. Romans, J. Thompson","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21350","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"77 1","pages":"30-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21350","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Engaging the Disenfranchised: Participatory Budgeting in the United States: Review of Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America, Brookings Institution Press, 2016.","authors":"Celina Su","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"13 10","pages":"23-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Turning Around the City of Baltimore with Long-Term Forecasting and Scenario Analysis","authors":"S. Kavanagh, Daniel W. Williams","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21295","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"29 1","pages":"33-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21295","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uneven Landscape: Mapping Underrepresentation of Young Adults in California's Electorate","authors":"Mindy Romero, Jonathan F. Fox","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21300","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction The foundation of electoral democracy, the principle of universal suffrage, has long been framed in terms of “one person, one vote.” Yet this seemingly self-explanatory slogan has at least two distinct meanings. One involves access to the ballot—the universal right to vote. Another understanding of this principle of political equality is geographic— mapping legislative districts based on the equal distribution of the populations represented. In the United States, both dimensions of universal suffrage were established relatively recently in historical terms, with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Supreme Court’s 1964 Reynolds vs. Sims decision, respectively. The former created federal enforcement mechanisms to put the principle of universal suffrage into practice, while the latter required legislative districts to have roughly equal populations. Those concerned with extending citizenship rights to young adults would move the historical turning point for universal suffrage forward, to the 1971 extension of voting rights to 18-year olds with the 26th Amendment to the Constitution.","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"12 1","pages":"40-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21300","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building Bridges: Community Policing for the 21st Century","authors":"C. Kimbrough","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"14 12","pages":"3-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21296","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}