Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal
by Fullinwider, Robert K.; Barber, Benjamin R.; Cohen, Jean L.; Crocker, David A.; Harris, Fredrick C.; Li, Xiaorong; Lichtenberg, Judith; Lomasky, Loren E.; McCarthy, Kathleen D.; Rosenblum, Nancy L.; Sagoff, Mark; Schambra, William A.; Sklar, Kathryn Kish;Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-05-13
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary
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 America's 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. The chapter range widely, taking up the connection between social trust and civic renewal, the role of citizen councils in environmental decisionmaking, the growth of self-help groups and their impact on community, historical patterns of civic activity by women and African Americans, and the place of expertise in public deliberation on scientific and medical issues.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Civil Society: Idea and Actuality | |
| Clansmen, Consumers, and Citizens: Three Takes on Civil Society | p. 9 |
| Making Civil Society Work: Democracy as a Problem of Civic Cooperation | p. 31 |
| American Civil Society Talk | p. 55 |
| Government and Civil Society | |
| Is There Civic Life beyond the Great National Community? | p. 89 |
| Civic Infrastructure in America: The Interrelationship between Government and the Voluntary Sector | p. 127 |
| The View from Quincy Library: Civic Engagement in Environmental Problem Solving | p. 151 |
| A Historical Model of Women's Voluntarism and the State, 1890-1920 | p. 185 |
| Trust and Civic Virtue | |
| The Role of Trust in Civic Renewal | p. 209 |
| Self-Help Groups, Community, and Civil Society | p. 231 |
| The Moral Uses of Pluralism | p. 255 |
| Civil Enough: Toward a Liberal Theory of Vice (and Virtue) | p. 273 |
| Religion and Race | |
| Religion, Philanthropy, and Political Culture | p. 297 |
| Will the Circle Be Unbroken? The Erosion and Transformation of African-American Civic Life | p. 317 |
| Public Deliberation | |
| Beyond the Public Journalism Controversy | p. 341 |
| The Changing Role of Expertise in Public Deliberation | p. 355 |
| International Civil Society | |
| Civil Society and Transitional Justice | p. 375 |
| Democracy and Uncivil Societies: A Critique of Civil Society Determinism | p. 403 |
| Index | p. 421 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 431 |
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