Voter turnout was unusually high in the 2004 U.S. presidential
election. At first glance, that level of participation -largely
spurred by war in Iraq and a burgeoning culture war at home -might
look like vindication of democracy. If the recent past is any
indication, however, too many Americans will soon return to apathy
and inactivity. Clearly, all is not well in our civic life.
Citizens are participating in public affairs too infrequently, too
unequally, and in too few venues to develop and sustain a robust
democracy. This important new book explores the problem of
America's decreasing involvement in its own affairs. Democracy at
Risk reveals the dangers of civic disengagement for the future of
representative democracy. The authors, all eminent scholars,
undertake three main tasks: documenting recent trends in civic
engagement, exploring the influence that the design of political
institutions and public policies have had on those trends, and
recommending steps that will increase the amount and quality of
civic engagement in America. The authors focus their attention on
three key areas: the electoral process, including elections and the
way people get involved; the impact of location, including
demographic shifts and changing development patterns; and the
critical role of nonprofit organizations and voluntary
associations, including the philanthropy that help keep them going.
This important project, initially sponsored by the American
Political Science Association, tests the proposition that social
science has useful insights on the state of our democratic life.
Most importantly, it charts a course for reinvigorating civic
participation in the world's oldest democracy. The authors: Stephen
Macedo (Princeton University), Yvette Alex-Assensoh (Indiana
University), Jeffrey M. Berry (Tufts), Michael Brintnall (American
Political Science Association), David E. Campbell (Notre Dame),
Luis Ricardo Fraga (Stanford), Archon Fung (Harvard), William A.
Galston (University of Maryland), Christopher F. Karpowitz
(Princeton), Margaret Levi (University of Washington), Meira
Levinson (Radcliffe Institute), Keena Lipsitz
(California-Berkeley), Richard G. Niemi (University of Rochester),
Robert D. Putnam (Harvard), Wendy M. Rahn (University of
Minnesota), Keith Reeves (Swarthmore), Rob Reich (Stanford), Robert
R. Rodgers (Princeton), Todd Swanstrom (Saint Louis University),
and Katherine Cramer Walsh (University of Wisconsin).
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