\n“As America has wallowed through an unprecedented decline in civic engagement, Peter Levine has been a lighthouse warning of the dangers of civic alienation. Now, he makes the encouraging case that although we will live for a while with the consequences of past mistakes, the worst of the storm is over.\u00a0 Professor Levine concludes with ten common sense strategies that can energize the people and their governmental institutions while preparing a new generation of Americans with the values and competencies to sustain our reinvigorated democracy.”
–Bob Graham, United States Senator (1986-2004)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Peter Levine is a remarkable asset–a scholar whose research is rigorous and unflinching but whose passion for democracy brims with optimism and engagement.\u00a0 In We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For, Levine catalogues all the ways our institutional systems discourage engagement among citizens.\u00a0 But he finds and lifts up a million people doing civic work for a better world, and asks us to join and harness that energy for real change.\u00a0 It’s clear-eyed and a clarion call–and a must read whether you’re a full time advocate or ‘just’ a citizen hoping to make a difference.”
–Miles Rapoport, President, Demos<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We know what it means to get better leaders.\u00a0 But how are we supposed to produce better citizens?\u00a0 That’s the question Peter Levine brings into focus. If the examples he describes can spur the one million most active citizens into a movement for civic renewal, we will all benefit from communities that are more deliberative, more collaborative, and more engaged.”–Alberto Ibarg\u00fcen, President and CEO, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In an America now rife with inequality, institutionalized corruption, a jobless recovery and more prisoners than any other country, many sense that we stand at a nadir of democracy. With inspiring erudition, Levine points to an unlikely solution: the people themselves. Drawing from experiences in schools from Washington, D.C. to neighborhoods in San Antonio, he develops a pragmatic approach to civic revitalization that builds upon developments in organizing, deliberation, civic education, and public service, but goes far beyond any of these to reach for an ambitious vision of participatory democracy. He asks us to join the emerging civic movement he describes, and we all should.”
–Archon Fung, Ford Foundation Professor of Citizenship and Democracy, Harvard Kennedy School<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The New Progressive Era: Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy<\/em> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n“Peter Levine’s new book represents an important new voice in our national deliberations about how to revitalize American democracy. It is a thorough, thoughtful account of the contemporary relevance of the ideas and innovations of the Progressive Era and a persuasive case for a new progressive agenda in American politics.”– Prof. Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Some books you read and put aside. Others you send to friends; this is one of those books. Peter Levine brings a rich historical and philosophical perspective to an immediate and practical question: What is going to be the effect of all the effort that has gone into civic renewal in the last decade? What it will take to make democracy work as it should will be an especially pressing issue in the 2000 elections. Americans are already frustrated by a political system where money, rather than people, seems to do the voting. This book speaks to everyone from journalists to foundation executives to teachers to members of civic organizations–all citizens. Don’t miss reading it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
— David Mathews, President, Kettering Foundation<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
(With John Gastil), The Deliberative Democracy Handbook: Strategies for Effective Civic Engagement in the Twenty-First Century<\/em> (Jossey-Bass, 2005)<\/p>\n\n\n\nSelected Articles on Civic Renewal<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n- \u201cDoes the Civic Renewal Movement Have a Future?\u201d\u00a0The Hastings Center Report<\/em>, vol. 51, Issue S1 (2021), pp. S10-S14<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cWhy Protect Civil Liberties during a Pandemic?\u201d\u00a0Journal of Public Health Polic<\/em>y,\u00a0vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 154-159<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cTheorizing Democracy in a Pandemic,\u201d\u00a0Democratic Theory<\/em>, vol. 7, issue 2 (2020), pp. 134\u2013142.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cThe Complexity of Civic Life,\u201d\u00a0The Bridge\u00a0<\/em>(the quarterly of the National Academy of Engineering), vol. 50, no. 4 (Winter 2020), pp. 34-6<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cCitizens against Domination: A Critical Reading of Ian Shapiro,\u201d\u00a0The Good Society<\/em>, vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2019), pp. 1-8.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cPutting the US Constitution in Its Place,\u201d in\u00a0Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America<\/em>, edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelly (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022), pp. 281-292.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- (with Tetyana Kloubert) \u201cPolitische Bildung in den USA,\u201d in Wolfgang Sander and Kerstin Pohl (eds.),\u00a0Handbuch politische Bildung<\/em>\u00a0(Frankfurt: Wochenshau, 2022)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201c\u2019What Should We Do?\u2019 The Bloomington School and the Citizen\u2019s Core Question,\u201d in\u00a0Ostrom\u2019s Tensions: Reexamining the Political Economy and Public Policy of Elinor C. Ostrom<\/em>, eds. Roberta Q. Herzberg, Paul Dragos Aligica, and Peter J. Boettke. Arlington, VA: Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, \u201cPreparing for Civic Life.\u201d In Rafael Heller, Rebecca E.,Wolfe & Adria Steinberg (eds).,\u00a0Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life<\/em>\u00a0(Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2017), pp. 59-79<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- Peter Levine & Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, \u201cState Policies for Civic Education,\u201d in Esther Thorson, Mitchell S. McKinney, and Dhavan Shah, eds.,\u00a0Political Socialization in a Media-Saturated World<\/em>\u00a0(New York: Peter Lang, 2016), pp. 113-24.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
- \u201cDemocracy in the Digital Age,\u201d\u00a0The Civic Media Reader<\/em>, edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 29-47.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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