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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
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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.