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Everyday politics : reconnecting citizens and public life /
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." InEveryday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He dem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | EBL-Schweitzer
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." InEveryday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not just on election day but throughout the year. Boyte demonstrates that this type of activism has a rich history and strong philosophical foundation. It rests on the stubborn faith that the talents and insights of ordinary citizensfrom nursery school to nursing homeare crucial elements in public life. Drawing on concrete examples of successful public work projects accomplished by diverse groups of people across the nation, Boyte demonstrates how citizens can master essential political skills, such as understanding issues in public terms, mapping complex issues of institutional power to create alliances, raising funds, communicating, and negotiating across lines of difference. He describes how these skills can be used to address the larger challenges of our time, thereby advancing a renewed vision of democratic society and freedom in the twenty-first century |
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| Notas: | First paperback edition 2005. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 239 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-223) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812204216 0812204212 1283212196 9781283212199 9780812238143 0812238141 9786613212191 6613212199 |