{"id":4973,"date":"2006-05-19T09:45:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T09:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4973"},"modified":"2006-05-19T09:45:54","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T09:45:54","slug":"civic-renewal-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4973","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Civic Renewal in America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Philosophy &#038; Public Policy Quarterly<\/em> has just published my article on civic renewal. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicpolicy.umd.edu\/IPPP\/reports\/vol26winterspring06\/vol26winterspring06.pdf\">The pdf is available here<\/a>. The article begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Our formal political system is coarse, unproductive, and short-sighted. Outside of formal politics, however, a robust movement is beginning to renew civic engagement in America. In this article, I define what I mean by &#8220;civic&#8221; work. I then describe some important current examples and contend that the whole field is growing stronger and more unified. (This independent analysis supports the results of a new book by Carmen Sirianni and Lewis A. Friedland entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kettering.org\/readingroom\/pub_detail.aspx?pubID=30&#038;catID=33&#038;itemID=1773\">The Civic Renewal Movement<\/a>.) Finally, I argue that this kind of work should matter to academic philosophers&#8211;and vice-versa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is my effort to pull together all my professional work since 2001 (leaving aside certain themes in moral philosophy that I&#8217;ve been writing about). Every section of the article appeared first on this blog, but the printed version is more coherent. The heart of the essay is a list of important, ongoing, practical experiments. Before I get to that list, I propose an argument for the importance of civic renewal, defined in a certain way. I then use network mapping software to show that the various experiments on my list are interconnected. At the end, in what amounts to a defense of my eccentric professional work, I argue that civic engagement is essential for the <em>discipline<\/em> of political philosophy at this point in its evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy &#038; Public Policy Quarterly has just published my article on civic renewal. The pdf is available here. The article begins: Our formal political system is coarse, unproductive, and short-sighted. Outside of formal politics, however, a robust movement is beginning to renew civic engagement in America. In this article, I define what I mean by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}