Making Citizens - Philo C Wasburn Tawnya Adkins-Covert Gebunden

This book assembles what political scientists sociologists and communication analysts have learned in almost six decades of research on political socialization (the lifelong process by which we acquire political beliefs). It also explores how people develop political values attitudes identities and behavioral dispositions. Of particular interest to Philo C. Wasburn and Tawnya J. Adkins Covert is the process by which people are made into active citizens who are politically interested informed partisan tolerant and engaged. Finally Wasburn and Adkins Covert identify some suggestions fo r institutional change that would lead to better citizenship.