The Journal of Social Issues

Vol. 54 No. 3 1998

Political Development: Youth Growing Up in a Global Community

Issue Editors: Constance A. Flanagan and Lonnie R. Sherrod

Youth political development:An introduction 447
Constance A. Flanagan and Lonnie R. Sherrod
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YOUTH AND POLITICS: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES AND DEVELOPMENTAL OPPORTUNITIES

Ties that bind: Correlates of adolescents’ civic commitments in seven countries 457
Constance A. Flanagan, Jennifer M. Bowes, Britta Jonsson, Beno Csapo, and Elena Sheblanova
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Political volunteering from late adolescence to young adulthood: Patterns and predictors 477
Saul Rosenthal, Candice Feiring, and Michael Lewis
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Community service and political identity development in adolescence 495
Miranda Yates and James Youniss
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MORAL DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS

Urban America as a context for the development of moral identity in adolescence 513
Daniel Hart, Robert Atkins, and Debra Ford
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Moral reasoning and political beliefs of Dutch adolescents and young adults 531
Quinten A. W. Raaijmakers, Tom F.M.A. Verbogt, and Wilma A.M.Vollebergh
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YOUTH POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Postcommunist societies in times of transition: Perceptions of change among adolescents in central and eastern Europe 547
Petr Macek, Constance Flanagan, Leslie Gallay, Lubomir Kostron, Luba Botcheva,and Beno Csapo
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Catapulted into democracy: South African adolescents’ sociopolitical orientations following rapid social change 563
Gillian Finchilescu and Andrew Dawes
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On the development of xenophobia in Germany: The adolescent years 585
Klaus Boehnke, John Hagan, and Gerd Hefler
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Young citizens in changing times:Catholics and Protestants in northern Ireland 603
Jean Whyte
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FINAL COMMENTS AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Political development for a democratic future:A commentary 621
William Damon
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