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Solving California’s Civic Engagement Problem
California is often criticized for having some of the lowest civic engagement rates in the nation, but Pete Peterson, executive director of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine’s School of Public Policy, suggested that the state may be getting an unfair reputation. “If you look at us nationwide, we don’t look too good,” he said in front of a diverse crowd of hundreds of Angelenos on a panel co-presented with the New America Foundation as part of the Connecting California partnership. “If you look at …
