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100	1		_aOLIVER, J. Eric _97947
245	1	0	_aCity Size and civic involvement in Metropolitan America
260			_c2000
520	3		_aGiven the coincidence between America`s recent migration to smaller, suburban cities and declines in civic participation, Dahl`s speculations on the ideal-sized democratic polity have gained more pertinence. I explore the effects of city size on participation in four local civic activities using 1990 data. Controlling for both individual - and city - level characteristics, I find people in larger cities are much less likely to contact officials, attend community or organizaitonal meetings, or vote in local elections. Lower civic participation is atributable partly to differences in social relations and psychological orientation between residents of larger and smaller places. People i n big cities are less likley to be recruited for political activity by neighbors and are less intersted in local afairs. These differences occur irrespective of the size of the surrounding metropolitan area and demonstrate the importance of municipal institutions for fostering civil society. The implications for studies of participation, suburbanization, and democratic political theory are discussed
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g94, 2, p. 361-374 _d, 2000 _w
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998			_a20030203 _bCassio _cCassio
998			_a20060726 _b1016^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c10824 _d10824
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