Preface and Acknowledgments

Making Sense of the Civic Engagement Debate

Theda Skocpol

Morris P. Fiorina

PART ONE Between State and Society: Roots of American Civic Engagement

How Americans Became Civic

Theda Skocpol

Marshall Ganz

Ziad Munson

Bayliss Camp

Michele Swers

Jennifer Oser

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

Neil Carlson

PART TWO Civic Life in a Changing Society

Professions and Civic Engagement: Trends in Rhetoric and Practice, 1875--1995

Steven Brint

Charles S. Levy

Vital Signs: Organizational Population Trends and Civic Engagement in New Have, Connecticut, 1850-1998

Peter Dobkin Hall

Social Change and Civic Engagement: The Case of the PTA

Susan Crawford

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

Henry E. Brady

Advocates without Members: The Recent Transformation of American Civic Life

Theda Skocpol

Contributors

Index