Pooh-poohing the grand poohba: progressive social change ended when liberals gave up on the Moose Lodge.(Book Review: DIMINISHED DEMOCRACY: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life)(Book Review)

From: Washington Monthly | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Silverstein, Gordon | Copyright information

DIMINISHED DEMOCRACY: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life by Theda Skocpol University of Oklahoma Press, $29.95

BEFORE THE UNITED STATES CAN hope to export a vibrant democratic system to Iraq, it might pay to pause and try to figure out just what it is that brings about vibrant democratic systems in the first place--and what it takes to keep them going. Our own democracy, after all, seems to have lost a good deal of its vibrancy of late. Relatively few of...

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