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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For - The Promise of Civic Renewal in America (Hardcover)
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For - The Promise of Civic Renewal in America (Hardcover)
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America's most serious social problems require citizen action.
Traditional civic organizations have shrunk and weakened; the
government ignores and sometimes frustrates constructive civic
engagement. But Americans have been experimenting with new forms of
active citizenship, mostly at the grassroots level. Their
experiments are deliberative, convening diverse citizens to discuss
goals and strategies without ideological constraints. They are
collaborative, involving actual work that builds and sustains
public institutions and creates public goods. And by talking and
working together, these citizens build civic relationships, which
are marked by virtues such as loyalty, respect, and hope. Peter
Levine is a philosopher who has been engaged with such civic
renewal efforts for twenty years as a theorist, an empirical
researcher and evaluator, and a participant. In this book, he
offers an original theory of civic engagement, informed by
political philosophy and practical experiments. He critically
examines public policies that have discounted citizenship and
corrupted the relationship between citizens and the state. He
assembles evidence that recent efforts to renew citizenship have
engaged at least one million Americans and have made tangible
improvements in communities and institutions. He ends with a
strategy to turn the scattered efforts at civic engagement into a
broad movement for civic renewal that will tackle America's most
serious social problems.
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