ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the citizen sustaining the social institutions of government and business as a civic engagement. For the connection, unraveling the institution and social, political, and economic institutions are necessary. Maintaining distributive justice and civil liberty is the function of such social institutions of government and business. Distributive justice, civil liberty, government legitimacy perceived, trust in government, and support for merchants are germane to civic engagement, notably in light of voluntaristic theory or its functionalist basis. Voluntaristic theory provides explanations for a comprehensive set of determinants of sustaining institution. Emerging adulthood, representative of the age range from 18 to 19 years, is likely to manifest lower sustaining for political and economic institutions than is older age. Age is a factor rivalling emerging adulthood in maintaining variation in sustaining institutions. Social class is another sociodemographic characteristic in need of controlling in the investigation of the effect of emerging adulthood.
