Chapter 1: Making Sense of the Civic Engagement Debate
PART ONE - Between State and Society: Roots of American Civic Engagement
Chapter 2: How Americans Became Civic
Chapter 3: Organizational Repertoires and Institutional Change: Women's Groups and the Transformation of American Politics, 1890-1920
Chapter 4: National Elections as Institutions for Generating Social Capital
PART TWO - Civic Life in a Changing Society
Chapter 5: Professions and Civic Engagement: Trends in Rhetoric and Practice, 1875-1995
Chapter 6: Vital Signs: Organizational Population Trends and Civic Engagement in New Haven, Connecticut, 1850-1998
Chapter 7: Social Change and Civic Engagement: The Case of the PTA
Chapter 8: Technological Change and Associated Life
Chapter 9: Mobilizing Civic Engagement: The Changing Impact of Religious Involvement
PART THREE - The Ironies of Contemporary Activism
Chapter 10: The Rise of Citizen Groups
Chapter 11: Extreme Voices: A Dark Side of Civic Engagement
Chapter 12: Civic Participation and the Equality Problem
Chapter 13: Advocates without Members: The Recent Transformation of American Civic Life
Contributors
Index
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