Research Catalog

Title

Defining and measuring civic infrastructure / Julia H. Kaufman, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Douglas Yeung, Jennifer Kavanagh.

Author

Kaufman, Julia H.

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2022.

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Additional Authors

• Diliberti, Melissa.
• Yeung, Douglas.
• Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981-
• Rand Corporation.

Description

xi, 94 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

This report offers a framework for defining civic infrastructure and presents some measures that provide information to help monitor civic infrastructure across the United States, in individual states, in communities, and across diverse populations. The authors specifically define civic infrastructure as the places, policies, programs, and practices that undergird strong communities and foster civic engagement. The framework categorizes these places, policies, programs, and practices in terms of three inputs: (1) democratic governance, (2) civic education, and (3) civic spaces. The authors also consider how these inputs are related to a set of intertwined outputs: (1) civic literacy, (2) civic identity, and (3) civic engagement. They then identify a set of existing measures across a range of data sources that provide information about the status of these inputs and outputs in the United States. This research has some implications for research, policy, and practice. First, more research is needed to test and confirm the definition, framework, and measures in this report. Second, federal and state policies could increase collection and availability of measures. Lastly, this research suggests considerable variation across states and communities in regard to rights and access to many aspects of civic infrastructure framework-from democratic governance, civic education, and civic spaces to the outputs of civic literacy, identity, and engagement. For that reason, this work implies the urgent need for more efforts to measure equitable access to and participation in aspects of civic infrastructure, both to monitor the health of democracy and to determine ways of improving it.

Subject

• Political participation > United States
• Civics > Study and teaching > United States
• Democracy > United States
• Digital divide > United States
• Media literacy > United States
• Civics > Study and teaching
• Democracy
• Digital divide
• Media literacy
• Political participation
• Civics
• United States

Note

• Title from PDF document (viewed December 1, 2022)
• "COUNTERING TRUTH DECAY, A RAND Initiative to Restore the Role of Facts and Analysis in Public Life"

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-94)

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format

Source of Description (note)

• Description based on electronic resource

Contents

Chapter One: The Case for Defining and Measuring Civic Infrastructure -- Chapter Two: Measuring Civic Infrastructure -- Chapter Three: Conclusion and Implications -- Appendix: Civic Infrastructure Measure Data Sources.

Call Number

JFE 23-1502

ISBN

• 1977410340
• 9781977410344

LCCN

10.7249/RRA112-24

OCLC

1357137649

Author

Kaufman, Julia H.

Title

Defining and measuring civic infrastructure / Julia H. Kaufman, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Douglas Yeung, Jennifer Kavanagh.

Publisher

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

computer

Type of Carrier

volume

online resource

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-94)

Additional Formats

Also available on the internet via WWW in PDF format

Connect to:

https://doi.org/10.7249/RRA112-24

Added Author

Diliberti, Melissa.

Yeung, Douglas.

Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981-

Rand Corporation.

Other Standard Identifier

10.7249/RRA112-24 doi

Report No.

RAND/RR-A112-24

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1502