What Should We Do? A Theory of Civic Life

"Active and responsible citizens form or join and sustain functional groups in which they ask the fundamental civic question: What should we do? In these groups, they characteristically face problems of collective action (such as free-riding), of discourse (e.g., propaganda and ideology), and of exclusion. Elinor Ostrom and the Bloomington School of political economy demonstrate that collective-action problems can be solved and suggest "design principles" that increase the odds of success. Jürgen Habermas argues that people can deliberate; experiments with deliberative democracy offer insights about what makes these conversations go well. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. offer models of nonviolent social movements that indicate how to address problems of exclusion. Good civic action requires insights from these three traditions of theory and practice. This book concludes with a synthesis of the three traditions that also addresses the

ISBN:	9780197570494
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Published date:	31 May 2022
DEWEY:	322.44
DEWEY edition:	23/eng/20220110
Language:	English
Number of pages:	cm
Weight:	485g
Height:	243mm
Width:	165mm
Spine width:	26mm

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