A01=Carmen Sirianni
A01=Lewis Friedland
activism
activist
Author_Carmen Sirianni
Author_Lewis Friedland
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citizen activism
civic renewal
civil rights
community organizing
democratic revitalization
democratic values
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government
grassroots politics
nonfiction
political activism
political leadership
political movements
political science
politics
protest
public journalism
public policies
public policy
public programs
self government
social issues
social movements
social theory
sociology
united states
Product details
- ISBN 9780520226371
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland examine civic innovation since the 1960s as social learning in four arenas (community organizing/development, civic environmentalism, community health, and public journalism), and they link local efforts to broader networks and to the development of 'public policy for democracy'. They also explore the emergence of a movement for civic renewal that builds upon the civic movements in these four arenas. In contrast to some recent studies that stress broad indicators of civic decline, this study analyzes innovation as a long process of social learning within specific institutional and policy domains with complex challenges and cross-currents.It draws upon analytical frameworks of social capital, policy learning, organizational learning, regulatory culture, democratic theory, and social movement theory. The study is based upon interviews with more than 400 innovative practitioners, as well as extensive field observation, case study, action research, and historical analysis.
Carmen Sirianni is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Brandeis University. He is the editor of Working in the Service Society (1996) and Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy (1994). Lewis Friedland is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author of Covering the World: International Television News Services (1993).
