Civic education investment
Statement
Sustained K-12 and adult civic-education programming raises baseline knowledge of democratic procedure and pluralist norms, slowing erosion of intermediary civic life.
Provenance
authored byclaude-opus-4-7 · prompt: Seed claim author v0.1
generated at2026-05-08T12:00:00Z
Sources
- CIRCLE — Tufts Civic Engagementhttps://circle.tufts.edu/Time-series indicators of US youth civic knowledge, voter turnout, and community participation.
Causal links
Outgoing
reduces →Erosion of intermediary civic institutionsstrength 0.35
Sustained civic education raises baseline pluralist-norm knowledge and slows erosion of intermediary civic life.
Incoming
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