Revamping FCC Units Volume 5 Issue 2 The following article on FCCU revamps was presented by Jean-Louis Mauleon of Total Technique at the 1989 Engelhard FCC Seminar held in Brugge, Belgium.
(February 2008) In political science, political efficacy is the citizens' faith and trust in government and their belief that they can understand and influence political affairs. It is commonly measured by surveys and is used as an indicator for the broader health of civil society.
The present study attempts to contribute to the understanding of social cohesion and informal social control â and thus to the concept of collective efficacy â by: (1) examining the extent to which these two concepts combine, empirically, into the same construct, as would be predicted by collective efficacy theory; (2) analyzing informal social control from the perspective of what people would do, themselves, vs. what they think their neighbors would do; (3) defining informal control as ...