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Terms of engagement
— the right and left look at elder civic activism | | Author(s) | Robert B Hudson |
| Journal title | Public Policy & Aging Report, vol 16, no 4, Fall 2006 |
| Publisher | National Academy on an Aging Society, Fall 2006 |
| Pages | pp 13-18 |
| Source | http://www.agingsociety.org |
| Keywords | Citizenship ; Voluntary work [elderly] ; Attitude ; Practical politics ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The concept of civic engagement in America first identified by de Tocqueville in the 1830s and rediscovered by Putnam in the 1990s, has caught the imagination of contemporary observers who see a growing chasm between discontented citizenry on the one hand and an isolated political elite on the other. In bringing these estranged parties together, heightened civic engagement would help mend the social fabric critical to the workings of an open society and democratic government. The author examines approaches and attitudes to civic engagement of the conservative Right (which thinks that older people are over-engaged) and the Left whose concerns are about exclusion, marginalisation, and older people who engage too late. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070508230 A |
| Classmark | IKC: GHH: DP: VL: 7T |
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