Civic engagement in the Atlantic community
By: Josef Janning, Charles Kupchan, Dirk Rumberg, eds.
Contributors: Janning, Josef, 1956-; Kupchan, Charles.; Rumberg, Dirk.
Publisher: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Gütersloh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Social ethics -- Europe.; Social ethics -- United States.; Europe -- Social policy.; United States -- Social policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : civic engagement and Atlantic relations / Josef Janning, Charles Kupchan, Dirk Rumberg; title: American society in European perspective / Seymour Martin Lipset; title: Decline of community? Comparative observations on Germany and the United States / Hans Joas; title: Social capital in America : civil society and civic trust / William A. Galston; title: Metamorphosis to civil society : the European case / Jörg Ueltzhöffer; title: Community, civil society, and social ecology / Richard Madsen; title: Civil society : getting beyond the rhetoric. A framework for political understanding / Benjamin R. Barber; title: The "Bürgergesellschaft" : scope for reforming the welfare state? / Warnfried Dettling; title: In search of common ground : transatlantic relations and civil society / Felix Philipp Lutz; title: Civic engagement and the future of the European welfare state / Konrad Hummel; title: Firming the foundations : constitutionalizing and memorializing the free world complex / Daniel Deudney; title: Civil society; title: skeptical comments on a familiar debate and two hopeful speculations / Peter Siebenmorgen.