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Civic Participation in America by Quentin Kidd (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Civic Participation in America about?
The founders of the American republic saw two motivations for individual civic participation: self-interest and civic duty. This book argues that the declining nature of traditional forms of civic participation over the last half century are the result of the evolution of larger institutional, social, and historical forces that have favored the self-interest motivation at the expense of civic duty
Who reads Civic Participation in America?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Quentin Kidd (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349293667
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Sociology, History
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