Youth Civic Participation in Local Government

Participation Barriers to Youth Civic Engagement in Social Media

Organizations aiming to foster civic engagement, such as government bodies, news outlets, political parties, and NGOs, struggle to purposefully use social media to engage young people. To respond to this challenge we conducted five group-interviews with 27 youth, 16–26 years, about their experiences of and barriers to civic engagement in social media. Our paper contributes to identifying specif...

Citizen Participation in Local Government Budgeting

Citizen participation in the governance process is widely encouraged by academics and professional organizations and is a popular conference topic. Key public policy decisions are made during the public budgeting process, so this would appear to be an important opportunity for meaningful citizen participation. Yet little is known about how and when citizens are involved in the budget process.1

Regulation Room: Getting "More, Better" Civic Participation in Complex Government Policymaking

What Motivates Youth Civic Involvement?

The topic of youth civic engagement is increasingly popular in social science research; however, the question of why some youth are civically involved while others are not is not well understood. This article addresses the following questions: What motivations and barriers do youth report for civic involvement? How do motivations and barriers differ across school contexts? A qualitative study u...

E-Participation, Transparency, and Trust in Local Government

Th is article examines the relationship between electronic participation (e-participation) and trust in local government by focusing on fi ve dimensions of the e-participation process: (1) satisfaction with e-participation applications, (2) satisfaction with government responsiveness to e-participants, (3) e-participants’ development through the participation, (4) perceived infl uence on decisi...