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  title info:
    title: Do-it-yourself democracy
    sub title: the rise of the public engagement industry
  name:
    name part: Lee, Caroline W.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "A provocative look at the promise and frustrating reality of participation and deliberation in America today Citizen participation has undergone a radical shift since anxieties about "bowling alone" seized the nation in the 1990s. Many pundits and observers have cheered America's twenty-first century civic renaissance-an explosion of participatory innovations in public life. Invitations to "have your say!" and "join the discussion!" have proliferated. But has the widespread enthusiasm for maximizing citizen democracy led to real change? In The Civic Engagement Industry, sociologist Caroline W. Lee examines how participatory innovations have reshaped American civic life over the past two decades. Lee looks at the public engagement industry that emerged to serve government, corporate, and nonprofit clients seeking to gain a handle on the increasingly noisy demands of their constituents and stakeholders. The beneficiaries of new forms of democratic empowerment are not only humble citizens, but also the engagement experts who host the forums. Does it matter if the folks deepening democracy are making money at it? How do they make sense of the contradictions inherent in their roles? In investigating public engagement practitioners' everyday anxieties and larger worldviews, we see reflected the strange meaning of power in contemporary institutions. New technologies and deliberative practices have democratized the ways in which organizations operate, but Lee argues that they have also been marketed and sold as tools to facilitate cost-cutting, profitability, and other management goals - and that public deliberation has burdened everyday people with new responsibilities without delivering on its promises of empowerment"--. "In The Civic Engagement Industry, sociologist Caroline W. Lee examines how participatory innovations have reshaped American civic life over the past two decades. Lee looks at the public engagement industry that emerged to serve government, corporate, an…
  table of contents: Cover; Do-It-Yourself Democracy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Democracy 2.0?; Part I The Public Engagement Renaissance; 1 Democracy in Miniature; 2 The Idealists behind the Curtain; Part II Process Evangelists: Spreading the Gospel of Deliberation; 3 Challenging Enemy Institutions; 4 Walking Our Talk; Part III Civic Engagement as a Management Tool; 5 The Arts and Crafts of Real Engagement; 6 Activating Empathetic Citizens; Part IV The Spirit of Deliberative Capitalism; 7 Sharing the Pain: The Lessons Deliberation Teaches.
  table of contents: Conclusion: Down Market Democracy and the Politics of HopePostscript: Notes on Data and Methods; Notes; References; Index.
  note: Caroline W. Lee.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: Text in English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Social action
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Participation politique
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Action sociale
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Freedom & Security
    topic: Civil Rights
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Political Freedom & Security
    topic: Human Rights
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Political participation
  subject:
    topic: Social action
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: JK1764 .L425 2015
  classification: 323/.0420973
  classification: SOC000000 POL043000
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    title info:
      title: Do-It-Yourself Democracy: The Rise of the Public Engagement Industry
    name:
      name part: Lee, Caroline W.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2014
  identifier: 9780199987276
  identifier: 0199987270
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  identifier: 0199987262
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    record content source: NLGGC
    record creation date: 141219
    record change date: 20260319160332.8
    record identifier: in00005711471
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng