Homefront: Black Servicemembers and Black Voters in the Civil Rights Era
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of Black World War II veterans in the Civil Rights Movement has been well documented, but the effect of Black military service on Black voting patterns remains unclear. Combining detailed information on World War II enlistments and Civil Rights Commission data on voter registration by race, we estimate the role of Black veterans in ...
Thomas Koch +2 more
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Personal and institutional factors as determinants of civic engagement among university students. [PDF]
Front PsycholLin Y +4 more
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Chains of Social Sustainability and the Potential of the DPSIR Framework
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For more than 20 years, the Driver‐Pressure‐State‐Impact‐Response (DPSIR) framework has contributed to clarifying causal chains for environmental sustainability issues. This study aims to answer the question of whether the framework can extend its usefulness to structuring social sustainability issues, to which it has not been applied so far ...
Stefan Mann
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The I-ACTED study (investigating action civics training through an experimental design): a cluster randomized controlled trial of a school-based action civics education intervention on adolescent wellbeing. [PDF]
BMC Public HealthCohen AK +6 more
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Freedom of Scientific Inquiry and Democracy. A Systems‐Theoretical Approach
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article examines the relationship between democracy and one of its inherent features: freedom of scientific inquiry—a multi‐layered concept closely intertwined with the broader notion of academic freedom—both of which are increasingly under threat worldwide. The paper advocates for the use of Luhmann's theoretical framework to analyse this
Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth
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Political grief and ambiguous loss in a threatened democracy: psychological distress and civic responses during Israel's judicial reform. [PDF]
Front PsychiatryYehene E, Ohayon S.
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis
Structural Concrete, EarlyView.Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha +2 more
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Community-level social capital and participation in health checkups among older adults in Japan: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]
Front Public HealthMatsuura H, Hatono Y.
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Creating Change: Art Activism and Leadership Development
New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 61-65, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT This article advocates the inclusion of the arts, and specifically, art activism, as a beneficial pedagogical approach to leadership development. Focus is given to using examples of art activism to introduce the student leader activist identity continuum (SLAIC), the exploration of leadership identity, and situating activism as transformative ...
Jessica A. Cruz +2 more
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