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Summarizes a multi-method study of young people who worked in the 2003 summer canvass, using comparisons to a national sample plus qualitative themes from interviews. 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Fisher  \nPrincipal Investigator Columbia University [drf2004@columbia.edu](drf2004@columbia.edu)  \nPaul-Brian McInerney  \nResearch Assistant  \nCIRCLE WORKING PAPER 26  \nJANUARY 2005  \nCIRCLE Working Paper 26: January 2005 Civic Engagement and the Canvass  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nHow does working as a canvasser for a local campaign run by one of the largest canvassing organizations in the United States affect levels of civic engagement? And how does canvassing for such an organization serve as an entry point into other forms of civic engagement? This paper summarizes the findings of a multi-method study that examines the civic engagement of the young people who worked for the 2003 summer canvass.1 In summer 2003, the project’s research team studied six campaign offices that were stratified by region and randomly selected. In many ways, the canvass epitomizes the connection between local organizing and national politics: several canvasses are nationally coordinated and aim to achieve broad political goals through the mobilization of local citizens. In other words, the summer canvass builds political support for social issues that have legislative pertinence, educating citizens face-to-face about the state of affairs on the national and/or state-level. Throughout summer 2003, the project’s research team observed these young people being trained in organizing skills and educated about the issues that they discussed with citizens at their doors and on the streets. During the second half of 2004, follow-up interviews were conducted with this cohort of canvassers.  \nThis paper summarizes the major results of the project, which include a quantitative comparison of our sample of canvassers to a national sample and the major qualitative themes that emerged from initial semi-structured open-ended interviews with the 2003 cohort of summer canvassers and followup interviews with two-thirds of the cohort a year later. The results of the quantitative and qualitative analyses are separated into two sections. First, the study explores what sections of the population are drawn to participate in political and service-oriented work such as the summer canvass, focusing on who canvasses and why. This section also discusses how these young people became involved in the canvassand briefly describes the work. Second, we present a framework for understanding the perspectives of different canvassers, breaking them down into four categories: Go-getters, Centrists, Disaffecteds, and Vanguards. In this section, we also discuss the key themes that emerged from the qualitative interviews. In short, we find that the canvass attracts politically knowledgeable and left-leaning young people who tend to feel that they can make a difference but do not know how. By looking at the canvassers political identities and how they perceive the politics of the canvass, we gain a better understanding of who stays at this job and why.  \n[www.civicyouth.org](www.civicyouth.org)  \n2  \n\n| CIRCLE Working Paper 26: January 2005 | Civic Engagement and the Canvass |\n| --- | --- |\n| INTRODUCTION\u003Cbr>In the wake of the 2004 Presidential election, questions about the ways that American citizens participate in politics and civics continue tobe topics of central concern to academics and politicians alike. In recent years, scholars have been increasingly interested in issues of civic engagement at the international (e.g. Curtis et al. 1992, 2001; Lijphart 1997; Schofer and FourcadeGourinchas 2001; Wuthnow 1991a; see also Edwards et al. 2001), national (e.g. Brady et al. 1999; Putnam 1995, 1996, 2000; Schudson 1998; Skocpol 1996; Skocpol and Fiorina 1999; Skocpolet al. 2000; Sirianni and Friedland 2001; Verba et al. 1995) and sub-national levels (e.g. Eckstein 2001; Eliasoph 1998; Lichterman 1996; Oesterleet al. 2004; Ostrander 2004; see also Putnam 1993 for a study of civic traditions in regions of Italy) . Of particular concern to researchers in th","cbCaie7iv932xkds","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie7iv932xkds","pdf",457066,24,"English","# Executive Summary\n## Research question and study overview\n## Quantitative and qualitative results\n# Introduction\n## Civic engagement and patterns of disengagement\n## Competing scholarly findings\n## New forms of civic participation","[{\"question\":\"What major pattern do the results find about who is attracted to the canvass?\",\"answer\":\"The canvass tends to attract politically knowledgeable, left-leaning young people who feel they can make a difference but do not know how.\"}]","Civic Engagement and the Canvass - January 2005 | PDF",8]