did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

did-you-know? rent-now

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

We're the #1 textbook rental company. Let us show you why.

9780815754053

Democracy at Risk How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It

by
  • ISBN13:

    9780815754053

  • ISBN10:

    0815754051

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-25
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $26.67 Save up to $9.48
  • Digital
    $19.83
    Add to Cart

    DURATION
    PRICE

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

Summary

All is not well with American civic life. Citizens take part in public affairs too infrequently, too unequally, and with too little knowledge to sustain a healthy body politic. In Democracy at Risk, a distinguished team of political scientists reveals the dangers of civic disengagement for the future of representative democracy. The authors document the symptoms, such as low and unequal voter turnout. They discuss the possible sources of these problems, particularly those that arise from the design of our political institutions and public policies, and the ramifications. This important book then charts a course for reinvigorating civic participation in the United States, testing the proposition that scholarship can provide useful insight into our democratic life. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

PREFACE vii
1 Toward a Political Science of Citizenship 1(20)
What Is Civic Engagement?
6(2)
What Dimensions of Civic Engagement Should We Care About?
8(2)
Can Civic Engagement Be Bad?
10(6)
Our Report and the American Political Science Association
16(2)
Roadmap to What Follows
18(1)
Conclusion
19(2)
2 National Electoral Processes 21(46)
Basic Trends
22(8)
Diagnosing Our Civic Malaise
30(2)
Personal Factors
32(9)
Structural Factors
41(8)
Cultural Factors
49(3)
What Is to Be Done?
52(12)
Conclusion
64(3)
3 The American Metropolis 67(50)
The Promise and Perils of Local Politics
68(5)
Changing Patterns of Metropolitan Life
73(9)
Place, Context, and Civic Activity
82(1)
Engagement with Electoral Politics
83(7)
Political Engagement between Elections
90(7)
Community Engagement through Nongovernmental Institutions and Groups
97(7)
What Is to Be Done?
104(10)
Conclusion
114(3)
4 Associational Life and the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector 117(38)
Associations and Civic Engagement
119(3)
Two Positive Trends: Volunteering and Growth of the Nonprofit Sector
122(6)
How Policy Creates and Regulates Nonprofits
128(3)
Reshaping the Civic Context for Associations
131(17)
What Is to Be Done?
148(4)
Conclusion
152(3)
5 Conclusion: Assessing Our Political Science of Citizenship 155(24)
America's Democratic Deficit
156(3)
Our Agenda for Reform
159(11)
Pitfalls of Our Political Science of Citizenship
170(7)
Conclusion
177(2)
NOTES 179(40)
THE AUTHORS 219(2)
INDEX 221

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program