Product Description: The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact―the rights and obligations of citizenship―as well as what she sees as the four substantive areas that are critical to realizing a new social compact in America...read more

Product Description: The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact_the rights and obligations of citizenship_as well as what she sees as the four substantive areas that are critical to realizing a new social compact in America...read more

Product Description: Insuring the continued integrity of the global environment may now be linked to the ability of humans to strengthen existing, and develop new, opportunities and institutions in which to democratically explore shared ethics about the future...read more

Product Description: It has become fashionable to assume that concerted action to bring about social reform is a waste of time. If we are to move beyond the current laments about how nothing works anymore, we must view the reform process from the perspective of the community groups involved-those who make it work or fail-and understand how and why they behave as they do...read more