We are the ones we have been waiting for : the promise of civic renewal in America /
In September 2011, two leading civic engagement advocacy organizations headed, respectively, by Robert Putnam and Peter Levine released a joint report showing that a region's level of civic engagement was a strong predictor of its ability to recover from the Great Recession. This finding confir...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Overview : the public and our problems
- How to think about politics : values, facts, and strategies
- Values : collaboration, deliberation, and civic relationships
- Values : the limits of expertise, ideology, and markets
- Facts : the state of American democracy
- Facts : a civic renewal movement emerges
- Strategies : how to accomplish civic renewal.