The Pittsburgh civic commission

The Civic Networking

This article describes and evaluates civic networks in Europe and the USA. These are seen as attempts to use new media technology, particularly the internet, to improve participation in local democratic processes. Various aspects of democratic communication are examined, including information access, preference measurement, deliberation and group mobilization. A wide variety of city-based exper...

Meeting Reports: The Pittsburgh Conference

The conference programme this year encompassed over 900 scientific and technical papers. As has become the custom, many are pseudotechnical presentations by instrument company staff describing their latest developments. With the developments in microprocessor applications, many of the papers can be broadly classified as automation, and as such, a complete summary of these is not possible. This ...

CIVIC Entrepreneurship

Pittsburgh myth, Paris reality.

hen announcing his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, President Trump reminded the world that, “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris.” In doing so, he repeated a tired trope: that Pittsburgh is a rusty urban relic—a manufacturing city of steel that has fallen on hard times, held back by unfair global competition and onerous environmental...

Patterns in the Civic Knowledge, Engagement, and Attitudes of European Adolescents: The IEA Civic Education Study

Civic education and its role in democracy have a new place on the agendas of many European countries. Increasing globalisation economically and politically, along with threats to the traditional bases of citizenship, increasingly complex political issues such as environmental or immigration policy, and the fading of wellaccepted narratives of country or State to which people can relate their ow...