Limits of Civic Activism - Cautionary Tales on the Use of Politics

Klappentext Todays political climate overflows with admonitions to "get involved!" as if entering the political fray is the great cure-all for almost any conceivable social problem. This advice may be a recipe for disaster. Staying out of politics is sometimes wiser. Pursuing non-political options may even be best given the inherent difficulties of the political pathway. In The Limits of Civic Activism! Robert Weissberg offers a corrective to a view that has evolved into a civic religion Zusammenfassung Today's political climate overflows with admonitions to "get involved," as if entering the political fray is the great cure-all for almost any conceivable social problem

Product details

• Authors: Robert Weissberg
• Assisted by: Robert Weissberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2004
• EAN: 9780765802613
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0261-3
• No. of pages: 361
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas