Volunteering has gained a prominent role in the nonprofit sector. As such it is relevant to analyze the reasons that motivate millions of people to engage in voluntary and solidarity actions and to understand the conditions in which that commitment takes place and how it is developed. The present article focuses on particular point and it studies i...
Civic participation has been deeply transformed by the growing use of social media, especially among youths, who not only utilize these virtual spaces to socialize but also to remain informed and become involved in matters of general interest. is paper looks at how university students in central Argentina engage in civic participation through socia...
The article explores the concepts of social, cultural and collective memory and examines the way in which the policies of memory implemented by transitional justice and the narratives of social memory resulting from truth commissions led to delegitimizing authoritarian regimes and to the empowerment and civic participation of marginalized groups in...
Studies on participation in voluntary civic associations show a positive relationship with political participation. This work examines whether the type of participation (voluntary or not) is related to the level of interest in socio-political issues in the same way. To that aim, it uses evidences from the case of Japan. The results suggest that the...
The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of two linguistic styles used in Twitter messages on engaging users in civic participation activities, understood as participation by citizens in community improvement actions. Using a socio-linguistic approach, an experimental intervention was carried out in which 324 university students evalu...
Resumen Este artículo propone comprender la participación política y cívica de la ciudadanía en función de la teoría democrática de Robert A. Dahl. Se expone un marco conceptual que las distingue, y que permite contribuir a su explicación a través de la configuración que tienen los arreglos institucionales. Se parte de la idea de que existe una est...
Este trabajo documenta los procesos internos de organización de los clubes de oriundos formados por inmigrantes mexicanos en diferentes ciudades del estado de California. A partir del estudio de doce clubes, y mediante técnicas cualitativas, se da cuenta de la complejidad de esta forma de asociación y de las prácticas que realizan sus miembros para...
This paper proposes to understand both political participation and civic participation according to Robert A. Dahl’s theory of democracy. It develops a conceptual framework that differentiates them, and which is intended to contribute to their explanation through the configuration of institutional arrangements. The driving idea is the notion that t...
The main purpose of this article is to present the results of a research project on the political participation of Latin American migrants in Andalusia (mainly in the cities of Seville and Huelva). The project uses a broad concept of what political participation constitutes, including both civic practices and activities associated with conventional...
A lot has been analyzed about the relationship between media and political attitudes in the field of political communication research. Studies are divided into those assuming that media coverage of politics declines the interest of citizens for politics and those affirming that media promote a higher civic and political commitment. If we assume tha...
