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"Civic Engagement in American Democracy opens with an eagle's-eye view of the roots of America's special patterns of civic involvement, examining the way social groups and government and electoral politics have influenced each other over the last 200 years. Other chapters explore comm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fiorina, Morris P., Skocpol, Theda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Participação (aspectos socio-politicos)
Participação política.
Democracia > Estados unidos.
Classes sociais > Estados unidos.
Maatschappelijk middenveld.
Democratie.
Politieke participatie.
Kongress
Politisches Engagement
Parteipolitik
Bürgertum
Political participation.
Democracy.
Civil society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civics & Citizenship.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
Democratie > États-Unis.
Societe civile > États-Unis.
Participation politique > États-Unis.
Democracy > United States.
Civil society > United States.
Political participation > United States.
USA.
Verenigde Staten.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and acknowledgments. Making sense of the civic engagement debate / Theda Skocpol, 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 [and others]
  • 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, Neil Carlson
  • Part Two, Civic life in a changing society. Professions and civic engagement: trends in rhetoric and practice, 1875-1995 / Steven Brint, 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, 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, Henry E. Brady
  • Advocates without members: the recent transformation of American civic life / Theda Skocpol.

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