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Tufts University Press
June
280 pp., 30 charts and graphs, 6 x 9"
Cloth, $50.00 s
978-1-58465-858-0
political science
Civil Society: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives
Tufts University Press
April
224 pp., 6 x 9”
Cloth, $50.00 s
978-1-58465-851-1
political science / philanthropy
Civil Society: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives
The Internet Generation
Engaged Citizens or Political Dropouts
henry milner
An investigation of political disengagement among
young people in North America and Europe
Despite rising levels of education and mounting calls for increased democratic
participation, recent years have seen a significant decline in voter turnout in
many countries, and the erosion of the sense of civic duty that brought earlier
generations to the polls.
Henry Milner looks at the United States, Canada, Britain, Scandinavia, and
the European Union to probe the decline of youth voting and attentiveness
to politics, and draw lessons about institutions that could break down the
wall between political life and “real” life that underlies political abstention
among the Internet generation. Civic education is the key to instill habits of
attentiveness to public affairs, especially among potential political dropouts.
Milner sets out a series of ways to bring the issues—and the political parties’
stance on them—to the classroom, including visits, simulations, and innovative
use of media, old and new.
henry milner is a political scientist at the University of Montreal in Canada
and Umea University in Sweden, and co-editor of Inroads, a Canadian journal
of policy and opinion. He is the author of Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens
Make Democracy Work.
Civil Society, Philanthropy,
and the Fate of the Commons
bruce r. sievers
Traces the historical development of civil society and
philanthropy in the West and analyzes their role in solving the
problems faced by modern liberal democracy
Among the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century
is that of sustaining a healthy civil society, which depends upon managing
the tension between individual and collective interests. Bruce R. Sievers
explores this issue by investigating ways to balance the public and private
sides of modern life in a manner that allows realization of the ideal of
individual freedom and, at the same time, makes possible the effective pursuit
of the common good. He traces the development of civil society from the
seventeenth-century Dutch Republic and the eighteenth-century Scottish
Enlightenment, analyzes its legacy for modern political life, and explores how
historical trends in the formation of civil society and philanthropy aid
or impede our achievement of public goods in the modern era.
bruce r. sievers is a visiting scholar and lecturer at Stanford University and
adjunct professor at the Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management at
the University of San Francisco.