What should we do? : a theory of civic life / Peter Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Peter, 1967- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Active and responsible citizens form or join and sustain functional groups in which they ask the fundamental civic question: What should we do? In these groups, they characteristically face problems of collective action (such as free-riding), of discourse (e.g., propaganda and ideology), and of exclusion. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of political economy demonstrate that collective-action problems can be solved and suggest "design principles" that increase the odds of success. Jrgen Habermas argues that people can deliberate; experiments with deliberative democracy offer insights about what makes these conversations go well. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. offer models of nonviolent social movements that indicate how to address problems of exclusion. Good civic action requires insights from these three traditions of theory and practice.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-757051-8

0-19-757052-6

0-19-757050-X