The Voter Education Program: Growing a Demand for Good Governance

Participation in voter education changed the lives of many people who ran voter awareness projects for the 2007 general elections in Papua New Guinea. It changed the voting behaviour of a proportion of those who took part in the program. This account of the voter education program through civil soci...

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1. Verfasser:	Susan Ferguson
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Behavioral sciences Civics Civil society Communities Economic disciplines Economics Education Education politics Educational demand Educational programs Employment Finance Financial economics Formal education Funding Governance Government Human societies Labor economics Occupations Political candidates Political elections Political processes Political science Politicians Politics Preferential voting Social groups Sociology Supply of education Voting Voting behavior
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Zusammenfassung:	Participation in voter education changed the lives of many people who ran voter awareness projects for the 2007 general elections in Papua New Guinea. It changed the voting behaviour of a proportion of those who took part in the program. This account of the voter education program through civil society organizations (CSOs) is a personal account from a participant in the process, since the key to electoral awareness lay in its participatory nature. My account is backed up by an evaluation of the program, but is essentially a subjective diary of what we did. In March 2006 I was appointed