We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For

Peter Levine defends the principles that motivate today's best civic renewal efforts, shows that these experiments have already reached substantial scale, analyzes the opposition that they face, and proposes a strategy to turn them into a movement that can tackle America's most serious social problems.

Wielding an impressive command of research and statistics, as well as finer points of moral and political philosophy, Levine's discussion of the benefits and contours of public engagement draw on lucid analogies and real-world examples..Broad in scope yet eminently practical, this book should be an enduring contribution to the study of democratic theory and social action.

Auteur
Peter Levine is Director of The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagment (CIRCLE), and Research Director of the Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.

Contenu

• Chapter 1: Overview: The Public and Our Problems

• Chapter 2: How to Think About Politics: Values, Facts, and Strategies

• Chapter 3: Values: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Civic Relationships

• Chapter 4: Values: The Limits of Expertise, Ideology, and Markets

• Chapter 5: Facts: The State of American Democracy

• Chapter 6: Facts: A Civic Renewal Movement Emerges

• Chapter 7: Strategies: How to Accomplish Civic Renewal

• A Note on the Title of this Book

• Notes