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by Peter Levine

Author:	Peter Levine
Subcategory:	Social Sciences
Language:	English
Publisher:	Oxford University Press; 1 edition (October 7, 2013)
Pages:	248 pages
Category:	Other
Rating:	4.4
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In We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For, Levine catalogues all the ways our institutional systems discourage engagement among citizens. 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.

In We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For, Levine catalogues all the ways our institutional systems discourage engagement among citizens. 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.

Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role

Levine is not trying to reinvent the wheel.

Levine is not trying to reinvent the wheel. He primarily advocates for more institutional funding and support for these initiatives that have already been proven to work. Once the support is in place, trained people will know how to kick off the process. I think why I really enjoyed this book though, is because Peter Levine is a libertarian and just doesn't know it yet. Exit vs voice, advocacy for charter schools to increase opportunities, flexibility, and improve public schools?

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Peter Levine will offer strategies for reversing the decline of engagement and argue civic renewal will address our most serious national problems.

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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America. In this book, Sirianni and Friedland provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Work and Integrity: The Crisis and Promise of Professionalism in America.

He has secondary appointments in the Tufts Philosophy Department, Political Science Department, and Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Levine is the author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America (Oxford University Press, 2013), five other scholarly books on philosophy and politics, and a novel.

Chronic unemployment, deindustrialized cities, and mass incarceration are among the grievous social problems that will not yield unless American citizens address them.Peter Levine's We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For is a primer for anyone motivated to help revive our fragile civic life and restore citizens' public role. After offering a novel theory of active citizenship, a diagnosis of its decline, and a searing critique of our political institutions, Levine-one of America's most influential civic engagement activists-argues that American citizens must address our most challenging issues. People can change the norms and structures of their own communities through deliberative civic action. He illustrates rich and effective civic work by drawing lessons from YouthBuild USA, Everyday Democracy, the Industrial Areas Foundation, and many other civic groups. Their organizers invite all citizens-including traditionally marginalized people, such as low-income teenagers-to address community problems. Levine explores successful efforts from communities across America as well as from democracies overseas. He shows how cities like Bridgeport, CT and Allentown, PA have bounced back from the devastating loss of manufacturing jobs by drawing on robust civic networks. The next step is for the participants in these local efforts to change policies that frustrate civic engagement nationally.Filled with trenchant analysis and strategies for reform, We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For analyzes and advocates a new citizen-centered politics capable of tackling problems that cannot be fixed in any other way.

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Writers have noted the declining levels of social cohesion and civic participation in the United States, and the resulting hand-off of political influence to professionalized special interests with access to lavish resources. We all see the symptoms: a lack of civility in public discourse, shallow and propagandizing mass media, and the corruption of electoral and legislative processes.

Peter Levine's book is an important contribution to what I hope will be a rapidly growing literature on civic engagement. He calls for citizens to talk and listen to people different from themselves and thereby enlarge their understanding, build consensus, and then bring what they are learning into their work. He calls for work (both paid and unpaid) that is collaborative, where workers build civic relationships and together create things of public value. This combination of deliberation, collaborative work, and strong civic relationships defines the good citizenship that enables Americans to make progress on the many daunting problems of our society.

Going beyond lofty ideals, he fleshes out what civic engagement looks like with many examples. I particularly liked the example of Hampton, Virginia, where a non-partisan city government engaged citizens in a range of grassroots collaborative processes to improve the schools, foster better race relations, and plan the city's development. A key component of this was seeing citizens, especially youth, not as problems to be solved but as resources that can be developed and enlisted to solve them. One can see in such examples that approaches based on civic engagement tap the energies and talents of citizens, help them develop new skills, foster rich networks of relationships, and rebuild a sense of trust between citizens and their governing institutions. At the close of the book, Professor Levine suggests concrete ways of organizing the most active citizens of the US into a coherent national movement for civic renewal.

In an era of angry shouting matches, manipulative messages, and character assassination, we desperately need to come together and work on authentic solutions. Peter Levine's book is extremely helpful for those who share this sentiment and I hope it can persuade those who don't.

Doukree

Peter Levine's "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For" makes several important contributions to the discussion of civic engagement and renewal in the US:
* It's comprehensive, considering a range of factors that influence civic engagement.
* It provides a clear, broad definition of civic engagement: deliberation, collaboration, and civic relationships with others, including those with differing political views.
* It critiques the limitations of social media as a means of civic renewal.
* It acknowledges that our political system is in trouble.
* Finally, it offers hope and a thoughtful set of ideas about what can be done to further civic renewal.