Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Curtis, Bruce

Titel

The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization

Ist Teil von

• Social Forces, 2007, Vol.86 (1), p.366-368

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: University of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

Quelle

Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The census campaign is said to show that the American public is susceptible to mobilization for civic cooperation and, against claims in the social capital literature, census completion rates were found to be more closely associated with variations in household structure than with participation in civic associations. Prewitt had an usually challenging time of it because of the partisan political climate, which led to seventeen formal House Census Subcommittee hearings, and the creation of a new oversight body in the guise of the Census Monitoring Board, but his census came in well under budget and with an improved participation rate.