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528

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Cover of: Civic Engagement in American Democracy
Civic Engagement in American Democracy
2004, Brookings Institution Press
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Cover of: Civic engagement in American democracy
Civic engagement in American democracy
1999, Brookings Institution Press, Russell Sage Foundation
in English
Cover of: Civic Engagement in American Democracy
Civic Engagement in American Democracy
September 1999, Brookings Institution Press
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Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgments. Making sense of the civic engagement debate / Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina
Part One, Between state and society: roots of American civic engagement. How America became civic / Theda Skocpol, with the assistance of Marshall Ganz ... [et al.]
Organizational repertoires and institutional change: women's groups and the transformation of American politics, 1890-1920 / Elisabeth S. Clemens
National elections as institutions for generating social capital / Wendy M. Rahn, John Brehm, and Neil Carlson
Part Two, Civic life in a changing society. Professions and civic engagement: trends in rhetoric and practice, 1875-1995 / Steven Brint and Charles S. Levy
Vital signs: organizational population trends and civic engagement in New Haven, Connecticut, 1850-1998 / Peter Dobkin Hall
Social change and civic engagement: the case of the PTA / Susan Crawford and Peggy Levitt
Technological change and associational life / Marcella Ridlen Ray
Mobilizing civic engagement: the changing impact of religious involvement / Robert Wuthnow
Part Three, The ironies of contemporary activism. The rise of citizen groups / Jeffrey M. Berry
Extreme voices: a dark side of civic engagement / Morris P. Fiorina
Civic participation and the equality problem / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady
Advocates without members: the recent transformation of American civic life / Theda Skocpol.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Washington, D.C, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
323/.042/0973
Library of Congress
JK1764 .C5266 1999, JK1764.C5266 1999

The Physical Object

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viii, 528 p. :
Number of pages
528

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OL18372762M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0815728093
LCCN
99006407
OCLC/WorldCat
41278339
Library Thing
469991
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344924

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