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""Documents how recent trends in civic engagement have been shaped by political institutions and public policies and recommends ways to increase the amount, quality, and distribution of civic engagement, focusing on elections, the metropolis, and the nonprofit sector and philanthropy""--Provided by publisher.

Political systems --- United States --- Political participation - United States. --- Political participation --- Citizenship --- Government - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Political Rights - U.S. --- United States of America

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#KVHA:Politiek; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:American Studies --- Nineteen sixties --- Social movements --- 1960s --- 60s (Twentieth century decade) --- Sixties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- History --- United States

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Diversity and Distrust aims to provide an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism. What should the aims of education policy be in the United States and other culturally diverse democracies? Should the foremost aim be to allow the flourishing of social and religious diversity? Or is it more important to foster shared political values and civic virtues? Stephen Macedo believes that diversity should usually, but not always, be highly valued. We must remember, he insists, that many forms of social and religious diversity are at odds with basic commitments to liberty, equality, and civic flourishing. Liberalism has an important but neglected civic dimension, he argues, and liberal democrats must take care to promote not only well-ordered institutions but also well-ordered citizens. Macedo shows that this responsibility is incompatible with a neutral or hands-off stance toward diversity in general or toward the education of children in particular. Extending the ideas of John Rawls, he defends a "civic liberalism" that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities. Macedo's tough-minded liberal agenda for civic education offers a fundamental challenge to free market libertarians, the religious right, parental rights activists, postmodernists, and many of those who call themselves multiculturalists. This book will become an important resource in the debate about the reform of public education, and in the culture war over the future of liberalism.

Public schools --- Moral education --- Citizenship --- Liberalism --- Multiculturalism --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Study and teaching

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Political systems --- Objectives of teaching --- Didactics of social education --- United States --- Citizenship --- Liberalism --- Moral education --- Multiculturalism --- Public schools --- Study and teaching --- United States of America

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Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Social policy --- Political systems --- Legal theory and methods. Philosophy of law --- Family law. Inheritance law --- Law --- Equal opportunities --- Gay marriages --- Homosexuality --- Matrimonial law --- Non-monogamy --- Lesbian relationships --- Monogamy --- Polygamy --- Legal theory --- Legislation --- Book --- Democracy --- United States of America