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Informal Political Action

Informal political action means face-to-face meetings with public officials, writing to newspapers stating your opinion on issues, doing email or telephone campaigns, going to marches and demonstrations, and similar activities.

Examples of Political Action

To help solve a crime, you might meet with government officials suggesting that they should provide more police services to protect your neighborhood.

In dealing with poverty, you might create a government program such as food or clothing banks to help the less fortunate. Then you might work to get the government to adopt and pay for the program.

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Formal Political Action

Political Action comes in two forms: formal and informal. Formal action means voting in elections petitioning government officials, seeking and holding public office, and similar activities.

Introduction

There is a wide range of political action that citizens can participate in to influence the actions of government. These actions happen at local, state, and national levels.

Their are two ways citizens can address problems in the community through participation and Civic life. They are social action and political action.

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Key Concepts

Social action means that individuals and groups solve community problems without relying on government to do it for them.

Terms to Understand

Civic Life: The public life of citizens; that which is concerned with citizen's own interest and the common affairs and interests of his or her community and nation

Civic Participation: Taking part in formal political processes and community activities outside of government.

Constitutional Principal: An essential idea contained in the Constitution.

Influence: The capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others

Monitor: To keep watch over something

Political Action: Any organized attempt to influence the political process, from lobbying legislators to seeking the election or defeat of particular candidates

Social Action: Attempts by groups or to change society using a variety of means.

Citizen: A person who is a legal member of a nation, country, or other self-governing community

International Law: Rules, usually the result of treaties, that regulate how countries behave toward one another

Nation State: The modern nation or country as the typical unit of political organization in the world.

Naturalized Citizen: People who are born elsewhere but pass a citizenship test on the Constitution and the history of the United States and swear to oath of loyalty to their new country

Legal Permanent Resident: A person who is not a citizen, but who legally lives in the United States.

Examples of Social Action

If you are dealing with crime in your neighborhood, you might form a neighborhood watch group.

If you are dealing with poverty, you can work in a food or clothing bank.

What is Political Action and What is Social Action?

by Jordan Baluyot

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