Notes
1. Bruce R. Sievers, Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Fate of the Commons (Hanover,
N.H.: University Press of New England, 2010).
2. Helmut Anheier, "The CIVICUS Civil Society Index: Proposals for Future Directions" in CIVICUS Global Survey of the State of Civil Society, Volume 1: Country Profiles
(West Hartford, Conn.: Kumarian Press, 2007).
3. Isaiah Berlin, Four Essays on Liberty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969): 169.
4. Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 2000); and William Galston, The Practice of Liberal Pluralism
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
5. The report is available at http://www.bettertogether.org/thereport.htm.
6. William Galston,"Civic Education and Political Participation," PS: Political Science &
Politics, 37(2), April 2004: 263-66.
7. Cliff Zukin, Scott Keeter, Molly Andolina, et al., A New Engagement? Political Participation,
Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2006): 86-7.
8. Morley Winograd and Michael Hais, Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the
Future of American Politics (Piscataway, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2008).
9. Norman Nie and D. Sunshine Hillygus,"The Impact of Internet Use on Sociability:
Time-Diary Findings"; ITT and Society, 1(1), Summer 2002: 1-20.
10. James Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition
Have Failed (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1998): 327.
11. Quoted in John Hechinger and Daniel Golden, "The Great Giveaway" The Wall Street
Journal, July 8, 2006: 1.
12. George Soros, Open Society: Reforming Global Capitalism (New York: Public Affairs,
2000); xxii-xxiii, 6-9, 38-45.
13. Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and
Choice Are Undermining Education (New York: Basic Books, 2010).
