Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal

Herausgeber: Fullinwider, Robert K

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Civil society is receiving renewed attention from academics, politicians, journalists, community leaders, and participants in the voluntary sector. Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal brings together several of AmericaOs leading scholars_of history, sociology, political science, and philosophy_to explore the meaning of civil society, its positive and negative effects, its relation to government, and its contribution to democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 148mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780847693566
• ISBN-10: 0847693562
• Artikelnr.: 21435705

Autorenporträt

Robert K. Fullinwider is senior research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland. His writings have spanned such topics as violence in war, professional codes of ethics, moral growth, and multicultural education. He is the author of The Reverse Discrimination Controversy (1980).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: Civil Society-Idea and Actuality
Chapter 3 Clansmen, Consumers, and Citizens: Three Takes on Civil Society
Chapter 4 Making Civil Society Work: Democracy as a Problem of Civic
Cooperation Chapter 5 American Civil Society Talk Part 6 Part II:
Government and Civil Society Chapter 7 Is There Life Beyond the Great
National Community? Chapter 8 Civic Infrastructure in America: The
Interrelationship Between Government and Voluntary Associations Chapter 9
The View from Quincy Library: Civic Engagement in Environmental
Problem-Solving Chapter 10 An Historical Model of Women's Voluntarism and
the State, 1890-1920 Part 11 Part III: Trust and Civic Virtue Chapter 12
The Role of Trust in Civic Renewal Chapter 13 Self-Help Groups, Community,
and Civil Society Chapter 14 The Moral Uses of Pluralism Chapter 15 Civil
Enough: Toward a Liberal Theory of Vice (and Virtue) Part 16 Part IV:
Religion and Race Chapter 17 Religion, Philanthropy, and Political Culture
Chapter 18 Will the Circle Be Unbroken? The Erosion and Transformation of
African American Civic Life Part 19 Part V: Public Deliberation Chapter 20
Beyond the Public Journalism Controversy Chapter 21 The Changing Role of
Expertise in Public Deliberation Part 22 Part VI: International Civil
Society Chapter 23 Civil Society and Transitional Justice Chapter 24
Democracy and Uncivil Societies: A Critique of Civil Society Determinism