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3 - Measuring Citizenship Norms

Behavior, Belief, and Belonging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2022

Sara Wallace Goodman
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University of California, Irvine
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Chapter 3 operationalizes and measures citizenship norms. I operationalize my conception of citizenship norms by examining items that make for a “good citizen” across three dimensions: behavior, liberal democratic beliefs, and conceptions of national belonging. I measure norms along fourteen different attributes of democratic citizenship, and present each in turn, both cross-case and over time. Then, I use factor analysis to explore the interrelationships among these fourteen attributes. This theory-driven exercise confirms that fourteen items group into three factors or dimensions of democratic citizenship norms. Finally, the chapter concludes with a test of how norms predict political behavior, illustrating congruity between ideas about what makes a good citizen and action, that is, what citizens do.

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Citizenship in Hard Times
How Ordinary People Respond to Democratic Threat
, pp. 57 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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