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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Acting civically. Medford, Mass. : Tufts University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2007 (OCoLC)608130501 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan A Ostrander; Kent E Portney |
| ISBN: | 9781584656609 1584656603 9781584656616 1584656611 |
| OCLC Number: | 145732869 |
| Description: | xii, 208 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Key issues in civic engagement research today / Susan A. Ostrander, Kent E. Portney -- Neighborhoods, neighborhood associations, and social capital / Kent E. Portney, Jeffrey M. Berry -- Grassroots organizing in Boston Chinatown : a comparison with ADC-style organizing / Lydia Lowe, Doug Brugge -- Building power in minority neighborhoods : Boston University Medical Center's bio-safety level four laboratory / Julian Agyeman, Heather Ross -- Could civic engagement reproduce political inequality? / Sarah Sobieraj, Deborah White -- Consumer-sponsored health care plans : early twentieth-century public participation in U.S. health care / Charlene A. Galarneau -- Teacher education as civic engagement : building bridges and community through professional development schools / Linda V. Beardsley -- Race matters in civic engagement work / Jean Y. Wu -- Three major foundations and the decline in funding for higher education civic engagement, 1995 to 2005 / Susan A. Ostrander. |
| Series Title: | Civil society. |
| Responsibility: | Susan A. Ostrander and Kent E. Portney, editors. |
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