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      Elusive Togetherness: Church Groups Trying to Bridge America’s Divisions

      Paul Lichterman

      Combines insights from Alexis de Tocqueville, John Dewey, and Jane Addams with sociology and addresses questions about civic and religious life that elude the ‘social capital’ concept. This book argues…

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      How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles

      Paul Lichterman

      The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the…

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      How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles

      Paul Lichterman

      The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the…

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      The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment

      Paul Lichterman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

      This book challenges the myth that individualism necessarily weakens commitments to the common good. Examining environmental and other activist groups in which individualism enhances political commitment, it invites us to…

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      The Search for Political Community: American Activists Reinventing Commitment

      Paul Lichterman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

      This book challenges the myth that individualism necessarily weakens commitments to the common good. Examining environmental and other activist groups in which individualism enhances political commitment, it invites us to…

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      The Civic Life of American Religion

      Presents lively, research-based essays by premier social scientists on the positive and negative roles of religious groups in American public life.

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      Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology

      This anthology of original essays by prominent political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists systematically advances our understanding of the movement’s agenda. Using Amitiai Etzioni’s The New Golden Rule as the guidepost…

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      Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology

      This anthology of original essays by prominent political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists systematically advances our understanding of the movement’s agenda. Using Amitiai Etzioni’s The New Golden Rule as the guidepost…

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