| Description |
vi, 414 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Introduction and overview. The meaning, origins, and applications of civil society / Don E. Eberly -- Part 2. Civil society theory. "The quest for community" : a study in the ethics of order and freedom / Robert Nisbet -- Whose keeper? Social science and moral obligation / Alan Wolfe -- The good society : we live through our institutions / Robert N. Bellah -- The demoralization of society : what's wrong with the civil society / Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Democracy on trial : the role of civil society in sustaining democratic values / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Communitarianism and the moral dimension / Amitai Etzioni -- Part 3. Community as a generator of social capital. To empower people : from state to civil society / Peter A. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus -- Professionalized services : disabling help for communities and citizens / John L. McKnight -- Culture, incentives, and the underclass / James Q. Wilson -- The urban church : faith, outreach, and the inner-city poor / John J. DiIulio Jr. -- Part 4. Civil society : civic trust, social authority. The lost city : the case for social authority / Alan Ehrenhalt -- Trust : the social virtues and the creation of prosperity / Francis Fukuyama -- Part 5. Civil society and the democratic state. Democracy's discontent : the procedural republic / Michael J. Sandel -- Rights talk : the impoverishment of political discourse / Mary Ann Glendon -- The progressive assault of civic community / William A. Schambra -- Individualism, liberalism, and democratic civic society / William A. Galston -- "American exceptionalism" revisited : the role of civil society / Daniel Bell -- Politics, morality, and civility / Vaclav Havel. |
| Subject |
Civil society.
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Civil society. |
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Civil society -- United States.
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United States. |
| Added Author |
Eberly, Don E.
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| ISBN |
0847697193 paperback |
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0847697185 cloth alkaline paper |
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