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Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal

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This book contains several very readable chapters that review organizations, movements and projects that any student of social action and community advocacy should be aware of. Sadly, the book leaves out any effort smacking of controversy or campaigns dealing with identity (where some of the largest efforts today at social change come from). Worse still, it paints controversy in change efforts as backwards. Several of the projects covered are also elite-directed, and not very participatory. The real nail in the coffin, however, is that their analysis is at the level of simply reporting "what people told us." E.g., the authors never ask if purported results are real, or should be truly attributed to the campaigns in question.