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Cultivating an inclusive definition of citizenship is increasingly important to the maintenance of America's multicultural democracy. Yet, current college-level civic education and diversity interventions are incapable of fully addressing this problem. Hence, this comprehensive review of the literature on diversity and higher education suggests that political scientists--who are most likely to understand the pressing nature of this concern, as well as the role well-designed associational life might play in resolving it--address students' civic needs by renewing our interest in the on-campus equivalent of civil society. The article concludes with a recommendation for more empirical work to assess which specific features and activities of campus groups provide the most beneficial impact on students' civic identities.

Much research has focused on characterizing network management in recent years, yet very few studies have addressed how changes in the organization’s demographic composition might influence public managers’ networking activities. This study uses data from over 500 school districts in Texas to explore the effects of student body diversity on the time superintendents spend networking outside of the organization and the joint effect of diversity and networking on aggregate student performance. Using a series of regression models, the authors find that organizational (district) diversity has a positive influence on the amount of time a public manager (superintendent) spends on networking. They also find that organizational diversity has a negative effect on the performance outcome for Latino/a and Low Income students, but this influence can be mitigated by increased networking activities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Asserts that the excess in the U.S. election reform movement's focus on voting technology may have made it miss alternative cost-effective methods to reduce the number of unrecorded votes in elections. Unrecorded votes in the presidential election of 2000; Results in Florida; Importance of ballot design and voting methods.

Focuses on straight party ballots in state legislative election in the United States. Frequency of straight party voting in selected jurisdictions; States that included some type of straight party voting options on the ballot in the 2001 general election; Factors that account for straight voting of the Democratic Party.