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We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for
Peter Levine
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Description for We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for
Peter Levine defends the principles that motivate today's best civic renewal efforts, shows that these experiments have already reached substantial scale, analyzes the opposition that they face, and proposes a strategy to turn them into a movement that can tackle America's most serious social problems. Num Pages: 248 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHB; JPA; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199939428
SKU
V9780199939428
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About Peter Levine
Peter Levine is Director of The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagment (CIRCLE), and Research Director of the Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.
Reviews for We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for
Wielding an impressive command of research and statistics, as well as finer points of moral and political philosophy, Levine's discussion of the benefits and contours of public engagement draw on lucid analogies and real-world examples..Broad in scope yet eminently practical, this book should be an enduring contribution to the study of democratic theory and social action.
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