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Lachelier, Paul.

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Democracy, individualism, & the civil-civic citizen: Young American professionals talk about community, politics & citizenship.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democracy, individualism, & the civil-civic citizen: Young American professionals talk about community, politics & citizenship./
Author:	Lachelier, Paul.
Description:	328 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Nina Eliasoph.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3294047
ISBN:	9780549383567

Democracy, individualism, & the civil-civic citizen: Young American professionals talk about community, politics & citizenship.
Lachelier, Paul.

Democracy, individualism, & the civil-civic citizen: Young American professionals talk about community, politics & citizenship. - 328 p.

Adviser: Nina Eliasoph.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2007.

Like all citizens of modern nations in a globalizing world, Americans are socially "entangled yet detached," to adapt political philosopher Michael Sandel's phrasing. Yet as citizens of the lone "super-power," the thoughts and actions of Americans, especially as voters, matter to the world perhaps now more than ever. 9/11, like global warming, confirms the inescapability of politics, yet there is evidence that young Americans are politically less engaged than their predecessors. Given these conditions and concern about the political engagement of young Americans, I conducted semi-structured interviews with thirty-five young American professionals (whose work, as professionals, inclines them somewhat more to political engagement) in a northeastern city to learn about the meanings they attach to politics, community and citizenship. I found that my interviewees generally upheld what I call a "civil-civic citizenship" which stresses politeness and charity, but eschews politics, especially partisan and collective politics. To the extent that my interviewees do support political activity, the good citizen to them is not an activist who pressures and persuades, but an independent, reflective voter who discusses issues in a balanced manner with those near. This contrasts quite sharply with earlier forms of citizenship in American history. I argue why this model is in certain ways politically disengaging, or signals disengagement, in important part because it upholds forms of individualism inimical to collective action. Then, drawing on my interviews and Alexis de Tocqueville's conception of individualism, I argue that another form of individualism democracy has to fear is not selfish and isolated, but on the contrary, can be quite giving and social, though within the narrow, private compass of one's intimates. That form I call "intimate individualism." I conclude with, among other things, elements toward an ethic of political engagement to counter these forms of disengaging individualism.

ISBN: 9780549383567Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Democracy, individualism, & the civil-civic citizen: Young American professionals talk about community, politics & citizenship.
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