OK I'll be first to ask. What the heck is Civic Participation?

Question

I've never heard of it before

Answer 1

I believe it refers to getting involved in activities in your community. Volunteering at local charities and organizations ... anything that helps better the community you live in.

Answer 2

1. Posting in Yahoo Answers is not a Civic Participation!

2, Racing in a Honda Civic is not a Civic Participation!

3. But doing community work at your local charity org or church is part of doing community work.

I had done all the above.

Answer 3

Do you vote? This is the pureist form of civic participation. Have you ever stood on a picket line? Another form. Basicly, civic participation in a nutshell is anything you do as a citizen to bring about or realize change within your community, state or nation. The hippies in the 60's? The war protesters today? All civil participants...Martin Luther King and the Black Panther Party? The same... Civil disobedience is another form of civil participation.

Do you belong to a civic organization? Your childs PTA, The community Block watch? Organizations centered on civic participation.

I hope you get the general idea from my answer I hope it helps..

Answer 4

Civic participation is at the heart of a thriving and throbbing civil society. Citizens give their share of obligations for the public good like paying taxes wholly and honestly. Further they have a willingness to do community work voluntarily like helping the poor in social programs in your spare time. In return citizens earn the right of a whole range of public services like free schooling and subsidized medicine.

Answer 5

this is the participation with and for the governement. a uniqueley american thing.

Answer 6

It's for questions that have a fuzzy category - a catch all.