civics
The campaign aims to encourage higher levels of civic participation across the region.
Wealthy people can escape to walled communities where they escape all civic responsbility.

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civic | American Dictionary

civic
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈsɪv·ɪk/
social studies
of a town or city or the people who live in it:
A group of prominent civic leaders have been among the school system’s harshest critics.

Examples of civic

civic
The teachers, as working women who were active in civic affairs, served as role models to the pupils.
There are two main justifications for this particular civic patriotic concern.
We do not aim to test all aspects of social capital and civic reorganization arguments about civic change in the late-twentieth century.
A quarter are involved in a civic group (most commonly a residents' association, political party or voluntary organisation).
It is in fact in precisely this negotiation between private individual and civic pattern that the character of the city at any time emerges.
The underlying point is not simply that any effort to reduce economic inequality or eliminate perceived injustices must respect people's basic moral and civic rights.
Our findings are consistent with the theory that direct participatory models of democracy may encourage a greater sense of efficacy, and possibly, civic engagement.
He also provides useful observations on the activities of civic authorities in, for example, enacting relevant legislation.
The use of roof drains in elite and civic-ceremonial architecture was ubiquitous, as they have been found all over the site.
We need to ask, then, how far this civic discourse translated into action once candidates were elected.
The existence of a legalized (but responsible) labour movement and active civic groups would further the latter condition.
In this respect, civic patriotism takes the existing imbrication of politics and culture seriously and urges a considerable 'thinning out' of national cultures.
Existing ethnic and civic practices should be scrutinized, and only those which secure the reasoned acceptance of all those affected by it should be upheld.
As the reorganization perspective argues, elites led the way in abruptly changing the types (not just numbers) of civic groups with which they affiliated.
Such elaborate ceremonies were not restricted to the highest civic luminaries alone.
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