Which statement correctly summarizes why civic participation is important in
a democracy?
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a. it politicians understand how best to manipulate citizens.
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b. it allows citizens to win political arguments more easily.
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c. citizens of nondemocratic nations learn to model democratic
behavior.
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d. politicians better understand what citizens want.

The correct answer is D: civic participation is important in order everyone gets to express their needs and fight for their rights. This helps elected politicians better understand how their work should be conducted.

Democracy means "people power". There are different forms of democracy; they can be more or less direct, for example. That means a democratic regime can have more or less instruments for the people to express their voice.  

Generally there are always elected individuals to represent large numbers of people. Because of this, it's important in a democracy that civic participation is possible so that people can directly make demands to their representatives and keep an eye on the public Power.

paul willis (born 1950) is a british social scientist known for his work in sociology and cultural studies. paul willis' work is widely read in the fields of sociology, anthropology, and education, his work emphasizing consumer culture, socialization, music, and popular culture. he was born in wolverhampton[1] and received his education at the university of cambridge and at the university of birmingham. he worked at centre for contemporary cultural studies and subsequently at the university of wolverhampton. he was a professor of social/cultural ethnography at keele university. in the autumn of 2010, he left keele university and is now a professor at princeton university.

paul willis’s work has focused mainly, but not exclusively, on the ethnographic study of lived cultural forms in a wide variety of contexts. from highly structured to weakly structured ones, willis examines how practices of `informal cultural production` to produce and construct cultural worlds `from below`.[2]

trained in literary criticism at cambridge,[2] paul willis received his phd in 1972 from the centre for contemporary cultural studies at birmingham university where he remained as senior research fellow until 1981. he gave a paper at the 9th symposium of the natiohnal deviancy conference in january 1972 entitled 'a motor-bike subculture

during the 1980`s willis served as youth policy adviser to wolverhampton borough council in the english midlands. there he produced the youth review (published by the council and ashgate) which formed the basis for youth policy and for the formation of the democratically elected youth council, both still functioning. during the 1990s he served first as head of the division of media, communications and cultural studies, and then as a member of the professoriate at the university of wolverhampton. in 2000 willis co-founded the sage journal, ethnography. in 2003 willis was hired as a head professor of social and cultural ethnography at keele university.

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