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PS: Political Science & Politics (2003), 36 : 269-274 Cambridge University Press
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
Published online by Cambridge University Press 15 Apr 2003
 
Political Science and Politics (2003), 36:269-274 American Political Science Association
Copyright © 2003 by the American Political Science Association
DOI 10.1017/S1049096503002208
TEACHER SYMPOSIUM

A Cross-National Analysis of Political and Civic Involvement Among Adolescents 1

Judith Torney-Purta a1 and Jo-Ann Amadeo a2
a1 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 jt22@umail.umd.edu
a2 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.


Footnotes

1 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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