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What Should We Do? - A Theory of Civic Life (Hardcover)
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What Should We Do? - A Theory of Civic Life (Hardcover)
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A broad theory of civic life that asks the question "What should we
do?" and shows how to ask it well for civic engagement. People who
want to improve the world must ask the fundamental civic question:
"What should we do?" Although the specific issues and challenges
people face are enormously diverse, they often encounter problems
of collective action (how to get many individuals to act in
concert), of discourse (how to talk and think productively about
contentious matters), and of exclusion. To get things done, they
must form or join and sustain functional groups, and through them,
develop skills and virtues that help them to be effective and
responsible civic actors. In What Should We Do?, Peter Levine, one
of America's leading scholars and practitioners of civic
engagement, identifies the general challenges that confront people
who ask the citizens' question and explores solutions. Ultimately,
his goal is to provide a unified theoretical foundation for
effective civic engagement and citizen action. Levine draws from
three rich traditions: research on collective action by Elinor
Ostrom and her colleagues, work on deliberation and discourse by
Jürgen Habermas, and the nonviolent social movements led by Gandhi
and Martin Luther King, Jr. Using real-world examples, he develops
a theory of citizen action that can effectively wrestle with these
problems so that they don't destabilize movements. A broad theory
of civic life, What Should We Do? turns from the question of what
makes a society just to the question of how to relate to our fellow
human beings in a context of injustice. And it offers pragmatic
guidance for people who seek to improve the world.
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