Patricia Farrell Donahue

Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb (eBook, PDF)

Of Our Own Making

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Participation, Community, and Public Policy in a Virginia Suburb: Of Our Own Making challenges the conventional wisdom that we can diagnose the vitality of modern American communities using just the few participation trends routinely tracked in social research, such as voting or volunteering. Through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia, author Patricia Donahue shows that a community is really the sum of numerous types of participation, and that analyzing a greater variety of activities can help us better understand any community. Pimmit Hills was one of the first federally-financed subdivisions built for World War II veterans, and the residents' stories will be familiar to the millions who grew up in middle-class suburbs. At the same time, its proximity to Washington, D.C., gave these residents front-row seats to-and sometimes supporting roles in-the launch of national policies that continue to shape America today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978793507
• Artikelnr.: 74841297

Autorenporträt

Patricia Farrell Donahue ispolicy fellow at GMU's Schar School of Policy and Government.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: All Types of Participation Shape a Community Chapter 2: Frontier
Days in Suburbia: Building Houses, then Creating a Community Chapter 3:
Pushing a String: The Quest for Basic Public Services Chapter 4: Making a
Difference: Individuals Influencing Events Chapter 5: Making Your Own Fun:
Marooned Suburbanites Create a Local Social Life Chapter 6: This Just In. .
. .: Creating a Community Information Network 153 Chapter 7: Silent
Majority and Civil Rights: Evolving Views of "Them" and "Us" Chapter 8:
Love Thy Neighbor? Chapter 9: We, the Community: The Many Lives of a Civic
Association Chapter 10: The Changing Landscape Chapter 11: Exploring
Participation for Insight into Community