Word: civic
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...population of 550,000, most of the city's residents have nothing to do with the business of campaigns and elections, but there are still more than enough Hill staffers, ambitious young administration officials, lobbyists, think-tank workers and political reporters living here because of their devotion to civic life that you'd expect turnout to be heavy. The local alternative weekly even wrote up a "Hill Staffer's Guide" for the local election. Yet the national politicos seem to have tuned it out. ABC's super-insidery blog The Note relegated the D.C. results to its second page...
...there are no second acts in French politics. Alain Jupp?, the former prime minister and close Chirac ally convicted in 2004 for his role in a scheme to put party workers on the Paris city payroll, is proving as much. After a forced vacation from civic life, much of it spent teaching politics in Quebec, Jupp? is back in play this autumn. Last month party colleagues in his power base of Bordeaux resigned en masse from the city council, forcing new elections. Jupp? is expected to walk to victory next month as the mayor of Bordeaux, the post he held...
...authors try to discuss “the average American,” the book’s principles are directed towards political and business elite, at times sounding like a manual for money-making. The last part of the book describes the societal changes that have taken American civic society from one that bowled alone to one that finds community by supporting candidates on thefacebook.com. The authors clog the text with numbers and names, quotations, and references to other sociological work. They question the pre-9/11 findings of Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert Putnam and his famous...
...what's to be done? First, get a sharper picture of where we stand. The U.S. routinely collects minutely detailed information to gauge the vitality of its economy. This new index is the beginning of an effort to do the same for its civic life. With this data, we can begin to seriously debate and ultimately fashion robust policies to fix our communal machinery. Local groups can tap it to build awareness, and national service programs, such as AmeriCorps, can use it to hone recruiting. With just a little focus and effort, our civic health can change course...
...John Bridgeland, CEO of Civic Enterprises, and Robert Putnam, Malkin Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. Both are on the advisory board of the National Conference on Citizenship...