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A Governance Studies Event

Community Works: American Civic Life at the Turn of the Century

Civil Society, Religion


Event Summary

Is America experiencing a boom in voluntarism and civic mindedness? Or is there a crisis in our communities and a breakdown in civil society?

Event Information

When

Wednesday, July 01, 1998
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM

Where

The Somers Room
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Map

Event Materials

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

Three important publications on the topic of civic life and civil society have been published this month, including the final report by the Council on Civil Society, A Call to Civil Society: Why Democracy Needs Moral Truths; Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America, published by the Brookings Institution Press; and the final report from the National Commission on Civic Renewal, A Nation of Spectators.

Participants

Moderator

E.J. Dionne, Jr.

The Brookings Institution; The Washington Post; and Editor, Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America

Panelists include

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

Commonweal Magazine

Theda Skocpol

Harvard University

William A. Galston

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies


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