United We Serve : National Service and the Future of Citizenship.
Title:
United We Serve : National Service and the Future of Citizenship.
Author:
Dionne, E.J.
ISBN:
9780815718642
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. United We Serve? The Promise of National Service -- PART ONE: How September 11 Changed Us -- Chapter 2. Bowling Together -- Chapter 3. Will September 11 Revitalize Civic Democracy? -- Chapter 4. Patriotism-Lite Meets the Citizen-Soldier -- PART TWO: Politics of the Service Debate -- Chapter 5. The Politics of Service -- Chapter 6. Service and the Bush Administration's Civic Agenda -- Chapter 7. Patriotism Means Reaching beyond Our Self-Interest -- Chapter 8. The Duties of Democracy -- Chapter 9. Thinking Bigger about Citizenship -- Chapter 10. Solving Problems through Service -- Chapter 11. Doing Well and Doing Good -- Chapter 12. Flying Colors -- Chapter 13. A New Greatest Generation? -- PART THREE: Universal Service? -- Chapter 14. The Obligations of September 11, 2001 -- Chapter 15. A Bad Idea Whose Time Has Passed -- COMMENT: The Case for Universal Service--Again -- Chapter 16. A Solution in Search of a Problem -- Chapter 17. In Power, but Not in Peril -- Chapter 18. Bring Back the Draft -- Chapter 19. Dodgy Drafters -- Chapter 20. Degraded into a Trade -- Chapter 21. Military Service and the Middle Class -- PART FOUR: Experiences of Service -- Chapter 22. The American Military and the Idea of Service -- Chapter 23. Empowering Communities -- Chapter 24. Is the Era of Recreational Government Bashing Over? -- Chapter 25. Service in the Pursuit of Social Justice -- Chapter 26. Profits through Principles -- Chapter 27. A New Citizenship for a New Century -- Chapter 28. First Vote -- PART FIVE: Service and the Challenges of Civic Participation -- Chapter 29. Can Civic Knowledge Motivate the Next Generation? -- COMMENT: Learning Service at Ground Zero -- Chapter 30. Service and the State.
Chapter 31. Civic Innovation and Public Policy for Democracy -- Chapter 32. The Volunteering Decision -- PART SIX: Serving God and Country -- Chapter 33. Civil Society, Religion, and the Formation of Citizens -- Chapter 34. The Impact of Religious Involvement on Civic Life -- Chapter 35. Challenging America's Faithful -- PART SEVEN: Making Good Citizens -- Chapter 36. Citizenship without Politics? A Critique of Pure Service -- Chapter 37. Public Work and the Dignity of Politics -- Chapter 38. How People Learn to Be Civic -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Public rhetoric in the United States has always laid heavy stress on the obligations of citizenship. Bill Clinton praised the idea of service, and so does George W. Bush. Since September 11, the debate over service and the obligations of citizenship has become even more urgent. United We Serve gathers many diverse voices on civic life and civic obligation to explore the idea of national service as it relates to citizenship. Activists and practitioners discuss the rise of the service movement, its practical successes, and its challenges. Policymakers and political leaders explore the links between service and problem solving. Political scientists and philosophers connect the service debate to larger concerns about democratic participation. The book also includes a lively debate over whether the U.S. should reconsider compulsory national service. The discussion about service is a debate over how Americans think of themselves and their nationand about what the "new patriotism" means. Contributors include: Daniel Blumenthal, Harry Boyte, John M. Bridgeland, Louis Caldera, Bruce Chapman, former President Bill Clinton, Charles Cobb Jr., Jane Eisner, Jean Bethke Elshtain, William Galston, Stephen Goldsmith, Robert D. Haas, Stephen Hess, Peter D. Hart and Mario A. Brossard, Alan Khazei, John Lehman, Leslie Lenkowsky, Paul C. Light, Michael Lind, Tod Lindberg, Will Marshall and Marc Magee, Senator John McCain, Charles Moskos, Robert Putnam, Representative Charles Rangel, Alice M. Rivlin, Michael Schudson, Mark Shields, Carmen Sirianni, Theda Skocpol, Andrew L. Stern, Jeff Swartz, Steven Waldman, Caspar Weinberger, David Winston, Harris Wofford, and Robert Wuthnow.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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