Published today, Civic Studies: Approaches to the Emerging Field is a volume co-edited by me and Karol Edward Soltan and published by Bringing Theory to Practice and the American Association of Colleges and Universities as the third in their Civic Series. It is available for free download (pdf) or for purchase at $10 for the volume. Contents:

• Part 1: Overview
  • “The Case for Civic Studies” by Peter Levine
  • “The Emerging Field of a New Civics” by Karol Edward Soltan
• Part 2: The Art and Science of Association: The Indiana Workshop
  • “Artisans of the Common Life: Building a Public Science of Civics,” by Filippo Sabetti
  • “Citizenship, Political Competence, and Civic Studies: The Ostromian Perspective,” by Paul Dragos Aligica
• Part 3: Deliberative Participation
  • “Deliberative Civic Engagement: Connecting Public Voices to Public Governance,” by Tina Nabatchi and Greg Munno
  • “The Challenge of Promoting Civic Participation in Poor Countries” by Ghazala Mansuri and Vijayendra Rao
• Part 4: Public Work
  • “Transforming Higher Education in a Larger Context: The Civic Politics of Public Work,” by Harry C. Boyte and Blase Scarnatti
  • “Citizen-Centered Research for Civic Studies: Bottom Up, Problem Driven, Mixed Methods, Interdisciplinary,” by Sanford Schram
  • “Public Sociology, Civic Education, and Engaged Research,” by Philip Nyden