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03517aam a2200481 i 4500 001 DF26E19C141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 220314t20232023ctu b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2022934849 020 $a 9780300257427 020 $a 0300257422 035 $a (OCoLC)1309867816 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d YUS $d OCLCF $d CDX $d MLL $d WLL $d SILO 042 $a lccopycat 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK3389 $b .K34 2023 082 04 $a 320.9746/6 $2 23 082 04 $a 323/.04297466 $2 23/eng/2023 100 1 $a Kahn, Paul W., $d 1952- $e author. 245 10 $a Democracy in our America : $b can we still govern ourselves? / $c Paul W. Kahn. 264 1 $a New Haven : $b Yale University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xvi, 285 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "After the election of 2016 and, even more urgently, after the election of 2020, many citizens looked at the economic and cultural divisions that were causing deep disruptions in American politics and asked, "What is happening to us?" Paul W. Kahn explores these fundamental changes as they show themselves in a small New England town--his home of twenty-five years, Killingworth, Connecticut. His inquiry grounds a democratic theory that puts volunteering, not voting, at its center. Absent active participation, citizens lose the capacity for judgment that comes from working with others to solve real problems. Volunteering, however, is under existential threat today. Changes in civil society, commerce, employment, and public opinion formation have isolated families from each other and from their communities. Even middle-class families live under financial stress, uncertain of their children's future, and without the support of civil society. Local media has disappeared. Residents do not have the time, information, or interest to volunteer. Under these conditions, national polarization enters local politics, which becomes yet another site for national conflict. To save our democracy, Kahn concludes, we need to find ways of matching opportunities for participation to the ways we live our lives today"--Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Part one. Two communities, one problem. A constitutional coup -- Killingworth copes -- Part two. Democratic participation and civil society. Self-government as volunteering -- Civil society : democracy and authority -- Part three. Public opinion nationalizes and divides. Talking to each other -- Killingworth disrupted -- What can be done? 650 0 $a Democracy $z Killingworth $z Killingworth $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Civil society $z Killingworth $z Killingworth $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Political participation $z Killingworth $z Killingworth $v Case studies. 651 0 $a Killingworth (Conn.) $x Politics and government $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Democracy $z United States. 650 0 $a Civil society $z United States. 650 0 $a Voluntarism $z United States. 650 7 $a Civil society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00862876 650 7 $a Democracy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00890077 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Connecticut $z Killingworth. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01924562 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780300268720 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517012350.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DF26E19C141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search