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A Cross-National Analysis of Political and Civic Involvement Among Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2003

Judith Torney-Purta
Affiliation:
professor of human development and affiliate professor of public affairs at the University of Maryland. She recently won the Nevitt Sanford Award from the International Society for Political Psychology recognizing her work over nearly 10 years as the Chair of the International Steering Committee for the IEA Civic Education Study. She can be contacted at [email protected]
Jo-Ann Amadeo
Affiliation:
faculty research associate in the department of human development and co-director of Advocates for Children —a living-learning program for students at the University of Maryland. She has worked on both phases of the IEA Civic Education Study and is co-author of the international report of the findings from the older adolescents. She can be contacted at jamadeo@ wam.umd.edu.

Abstract

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Type
TEACHER SYMPOSIUM
Copyright
© 2003 by the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

Major support for international costs of Phase 2 of the IEA Civic Education Study came from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to the Humboldt University of Berlin (Rainer Lehmann, International Coordinator) and from the William T. Grant Foundation to the Department of Human Development, University of Maryland (Judith Torney-Purta, Chair of the International Steering Committee). Assistance with the scaling from Wolfram Schulz and Vera Husfeldt and with analysis reported here from Roumiana Nikolova is gratefully acknowledged.

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