July 9-July 19, 2012
| 10 AM – 12 noon | Seminar on Civic Theory: Theoretical traditions in civic studies |
| 2 PM – 4 PM | Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work |
| 4:30 PM – 6 PM | Civic Topics: Discussions with invited speakers |
Instructors for all sessions of the two seminars:
Peter Levine, Karol Sołtan
Links require a password because the works are copyrighted.
Monday July 9
9:30-11:30 AM: Introductions and Inspirations (PL and KS)
- Framing Statement for the Summer Institute
- Vaclav Havel, Address at Wroclaw University (December 21, 1992)
- Vincent Ostrom, “Citizen Sovereigns” (the 2005 John Gaus Lecture), PS, 39 (2006): 13-17
- Seamus Heaney, “In the Republic of Conscience”
- Images: fist of Otpor and open hand from Chandigarh
1 pm – 3:00 pm: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorist: Elinor Ostrom and the commons [KS]
- Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern, “The Drama of the Commons,” in Elinor Ostrom, ed., Drama of the Commons, pp. 3-26.
- Elinor Ostrom, “Covenants, Collective Action, and Common-Pool Resources“
- Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons. Pp. ix-xvi, 3-11. Available online.
3:30-5:30 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: The person in development as a citizen [PL]
- David Elkind, “Erik Erikson’s Eight Ages of Man.” (NY Times article from 1970)
- Karl Mannheim, “The Problem of Generations” (excerpt)
- Joel Westheimer and Joseph E. Kahne, “Educating the ‘Good Citizen’: Political Choices and Pedagogical Goals,” PS Online
- Hugh McIntosh and James Youniss, “Toward a Political Theory of Political Socialization of Youth.”
No visitor
Tuesday, July 10
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorist: Jürgen Habermas and critical social theory [PL]
- Jürgen Habermas, “The Public Sphere: An Encylopedia Article,” New German Critique, 3 (1974), pp. 49-55
- Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics, pp. 1-22
- James Finlayson, Habermas: A Very Short Introduction, Chapters 1, 2, 4 (pp. 1-27, 47-61);
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: Negotiation and deliberation [KS and PL]
- Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting to Yes (2d ed.), Chapter 1 “Don’t Bargain Over Positions” pp. 3-14.
- Archon Fung, “Recipes for Public Spheres: Eight Institutional Design Choices and Their Consequences” in Journal of Political Philosophy, vol. 11, No. 3. (September 2003), pp. 338-67.
- Bernard Manin “Deliberation: Why We Should Focus on Debate Rather Than Discussion.”
- Jane Mansbridge et al. “The Place of Self-Interest and the Role of Power in Deliberative Democracy,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 18, no 1 (2010): 64-100.
Visitor
Dr. Ben Hertzberg (Health Policy, Harvard)
Wednesday, July 11
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorist: Robert Putnam and social capital [PL]
- Robert D. Putnam, “Community-Based Social Capital and Educational Performance,” in Ravitch and Viteritti, eds., Making Good Citizens, pp. 58-95;
- Jean L. Cohen, “American Civil Society Talk,” in Robert K. Fullinwider, ed., Civil Society, Democracy, and Civic Renewal, pp. 55-85
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: Community organizing and popular education [PL]
- John Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley, pp. 3-32
- Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, 1946 (1969 edition), pp. 76-81; 85-88; 92-100, 132-5, 155-158.
- Myles Horton and Paulo Freire, We Make the Road by Walking, pp. 115-138
Visitors: Uche Amaechi and Jedd Cohen from the OneVille Project
Thursday, July 12
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorists: Dewey and Selznick and pragmatism [PL and KS]
- John Dewey, The Public and its Problems, Chapter 5, “Search for the Great Community.”
- Philip Selznick, Moral Commonwealth, Chapters 1 and 11
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: Work (including public work), the professions [PL]
- Harry C. Boyte, “Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature,” Political Theory, 2011
- Albert Dzur, Democratic Professionalism, pp. 35-51, 105-134, 173-206
Visitor: Albert Dzur
Friday, July 13
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorist: Bent Flyvbjerg and social science as phronesis [PL]
- Bent Flyvbjerg, “Social Science that Matters” (2006)
- Bent Flyvbjerg, “Making Organization Research Matter: Power, Values and Phronesis” (2006)
- Bent Flyvbjerg, Making Social Science Matter. Chapter 10, pp. 141-65
- David Garvin, “Making the Case“
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: Social movements [KS]
- Charles Tilly, Social Movements, 1768-2004
- Bikhu Parekh, Gandhi, Chapter 4 (“Satyagraha”), pp. 51-62;
- Marshall Ganz, “Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movements,” in Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper, Rethinking Social Movements: Structure, Meaning, and Emotion (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004) pp.177-98.
- Timothy Garton Ash, “Velvet Revolution: The Prospects,” New York Review of Books, December 3, 2009
No visitor
(Weekend)
Monday, July 16
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorist: Roberto Mangabeira Unger and democratic experimentalism [KS]
- Roberto Unger, False Necessity, Chapter 1 (pp. 1-40)
- Roberto Unger, Democracy Realized, “A Manifesto” (pp. 263-77)
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: Government or Governance [PL]
- Theodore J. Lowi, The End of Liberalism (second ed., 1979), pp. 42-63; 295-313
- Michael C. Dorf and Charles F. Sabel, “A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism,” with a focus on pp. 270-338
Art Gallery tour of the “Boston-Jo’burg Connection” exhibition
Tuesday, July 17
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorist: James Madison and thinking constitutionally [KS]
- The Federalist, numbers 9, 10, 51
- Stephen Elkin, Reconstructing the Commercial Republic, pp. 19-73 and 107-11.
- Stephen Elkin, “Thinking Constitutionally: The Problem of Deliberative Democracy” Social Philosophy and Policy, 21: 39-75.
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: The American Republic [PL]
- Michael Schudson, The Good Citizen, introduction and chapter 5
- Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined its Citizens and Privatized the Public, pp. 1-46
Speaker TBA, Prof. Carmen Sirianni, Brandeis
Wednesday, July 18
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorists: Edmund Burke, Friedrich von Hayek and human limits [KS]
- Robert Nisbet, Conservatism: Dream and Reality, pp. 1-46
- William Ophuls (with A. Stephen Boyan), Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited, pp. 281-307.
- Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, Chapters 1, 4 and Postscript, pp. 11-21, 54-70, 397-411.
- James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, Introduction (pp. 1-8), Chapter 3 “Authoritarian High Modernism”, Chapter 9 “Thin Simplification and practical Knowledge: Metis” (pp.309-41)
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: Other republics [KS]
- Arend Lijphart, “Constitutional Design for Divided Societies,” Journal of Democracy, 15(2004): 96- 109
- Bruce Ackerman, “The New Separation of Powers“, Harvard Law Review, 113 (2000): 642-729
Speaker: Dennis Barr, Facing History and Ourselves
Thursday, July 19
10 AM – 12 noon: Seminar on Civic Theory
Theorists: Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum and the capabilities approach [KS]
- Martha Nussbaum, Creating Capabilities. Chapters 2-4 (pp. 17-100)
2-4 pm Seminar on Civic Practice: The venues of civic work
Venue: The world [KS]
- Peter Singer, One World, 2d. ed. Chapter 5 (“One Community”), pp. 150-195;
- James Nickel, “Human Rights,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, online
- Andrew Clapham, Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors. Section 11.1 “Dignity,” pp. 535-48
- James Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World, “A New Consciousness” pp. 199-216
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The Earth Charter
No Speaker: Public Conference Begins in Downtown Boston
