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For Communities to Work


For Communities to Work
, by David Mathews, presents a broad framework intended as background for civic organizations that want to look at the state of the public in their communities. It explains how private individuals become public citizens and how publics form. The process of reinvigorating citizens in communities requires generating the political will for “public work,” or the work of citizens with each other.


Download For Communities to Work

Download the Spanish Edition Para que las Comunidades Funcionen


Kettering Foundation Press | 2002
53 pages
$3
Item #9852


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