Mission:
Many social movement leaders and civic activists realize that this is an important moment for building new capacities and coalitions – going well beyond the professionally led and often narrowly focused efforts that proliferated at the end of the twentieth century. Organizational experience has piled up, and new ideas and technologies abound. SSN scholars in this Working Group have done cutting edge research on citizen engagement, participation, and mobilization. Their work helps to diagnose the current state of American civic engagement and highlights promising potential improvements for civil society in many realms. They are well-positioned to prepare briefs, media contributions, consultations, and public presentations that both diagnose the challenges citizen activists and groups are facing and suggest specific steps the activists and groups can take to meet the challenges and seize opportunities in local and national arenas.
Projects:
- Civic engagement OpEds and interviews by Working Group members
- SSN briefs on civic engagement by Working Group members
- "Civic Engagement between Elections" Washington Post article collection
Members:
Co-Leaders
Hahrie Han, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College
David Karpf, Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University
Members
Kenneth T. Andrews, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Matthew Baggetta, Assistant Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Linda J. Beck, Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of International and Global Studies, University of Maine at Farmington
Richard Blissett, PhD Candidate in Education Leadership and Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University
Irene Bloemraad, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Harry C. Boyte, Senior Fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College; National Coordinator of the American Commonwealth Partnership
David Broockman, Graduate Student in Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Marshall Ganz, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Kristin Goss, Co-Director of the Research Triangle SSN Regional Network; Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University; Director of the Duke in DC Program
Samara Klar, Assistant Professor of Political Science, School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
Casey A. Klofstad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Miami; and Visiting Scholar, Department of Biology, Duke University
Daniel Kreiss, Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Affiliate Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Taeku Lee, Professor of Political Science and Law, and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Adam Levine, Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University
Paul Lichterman, Professor of Sociology and Religion, University of Southern California
Wesley Longhofer, Assistant Professor of Organization & Management, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
Ronald J. MacAllister, Provost Emeritus, Elizabethtown College
Dyana P. Mason, Assistant Professor of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College
Melissa R. Michelson, Professor of Political Science, Menlo College
Kenneth W. Moffet, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Steven Michael Polunsky, Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Laurie L. Rice, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Deana A. Rohlinger, Associate Professor of Sociology, Florida State University
Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, Ohio State University
Emily D. Shaw, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Thomas College
Dara Z. Strolovitch, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota
Steven M. Teles, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Edward Walker, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
Mark R. Warren, Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston
S. Laurel Weldon, Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Purdue University
Richard L. Wood, Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Southwest Institute on Religion, Culture, and Society, University of New Mexico