Research Catalog

Title

Civic engagement in American democracy / Theda Skocpol, Morris P. Fiorina, editors.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press ; New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c1999.

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Additional Authors

• Fiorina, Morris P.
• Skocpol, Theda.

Description

viii, 528 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Civil society > United States
• Democracy > United States
• Political participation > United States

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

Making sense of the civic engagement debate / Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina -- How Americans became civic / Theda Skocpol with the assistance of Marshall Ganz, Ziad Munson, Bayliss Camp, Michele Swers, and Jennifer Oser -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

ISBN

• 0815728107 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0815728093 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99006407^

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Harvard Library