Civic engagement in American democracy

Preface and acknowledgments. Making sense of the civic engagement debate / Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina

Part One, Between state and society: roots of American civic engagement. How America became civic / Theda Skocpol, with the assistance of Marshall Ganz ... [et al.]

Organizational repertoires and institutional change: women's groups and the transformation of American politics, 1890-1920 / Elisabeth S. Clemens

National elections as institutions for generating social capital / Wendy M. Rahn, John Brehm, and Neil Carlson

Part Two, Civic life in a changing society. Professions and civic engagement: trends in rhetoric and practice, 1875-1995 / Steven Brint and Charles S. Levy

Vital signs: organizational population trends and civic engagement in New Haven, Connecticut, 1850-1998 / Peter Dobkin Hall

Social change and civic engagement: the case of the PTA / Susan Crawford and Peggy Levitt

Technological change and associational life / Marcella Ridlen Ray

Mobilizing civic engagement: the changing impact of religious involvement / Robert Wuthnow

Part Three, The ironies of contemporary activism. The rise of citizen groups / Jeffrey M. Berry

Extreme voices: a dark side of civic engagement / Morris P. Fiorina

Civic participation and the equality problem / Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry E. Brady

Advocates without members: the recent transformation of American civic life / Theda Skocpol.