Citizenship and Democracy

Leading: Rachel, Brian,  Greg

In class this week we will discuss these readings (available on CTools and outside of the SI main office near the GSI mailboxes):

•    Walzer, M. “The Idea of Civil Society: A Path to Social Reconstruction” Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America. Ed. E. J. Dionne. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998. (pp. 123-143)
•    Boyte, H. C. and N. N. Kari. Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. (pp. 1-32, 164-178)
•    Resnick, Paul. “A Preliminary Classification Scheme for Public Information Work. (http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/papers/civicextension/PublicInformationWorkClassification.doc)

Please post your responses, comments, questions, observations, misgivings, concerns, etc. regarding the readings as a comment to this post by Wednesday (11/28) evening. These will be used to lead class discussion on Friday.

Thanks!