Engagement in Public Life Is Linked with Americans’ Views of Politics, News

Mobilizer, connector, spectator, or outsider? New Pew research categorizes how Americans do (or don’t) engage civically

Civic engagement takes many forms. The term describes activities as disparate as voting, volunteering, attending religious services, and following the news. Yet “these behaviors are often studied separately, making it difficult to see how they come together in people’s day-to-day lives,” researchers from the Pew-Knight Initiative write in a new report published Thursday. Their study, based on surveys the team conducted between July and December …

Engagement in public life is linked with Americans’ views of politics, news

Americans who participate more in public life are more interested in politics – and more likely to have positive feelings about the state of their local communities.

Pew Reviews How Americans Take Part In Society – Or Don’t

Americans’ engagement with others is not one-dimensional. That’s the focal point of a just-released Pew Research Center study from the Pew-Knight Initiative that looks across a range of behaviors: political activity, civic involvement, religious attendance and attention to news. “What we found was that rather than falling along a single spectrum, U.S. adults sort into four distinct groups that reflect different patterns of participation,” Pew re…