Democracy in Crisis: Civic Learning and the Reconstruction of Common Purpose

The Hastings Center presents a collection of essays focusing on the future of democracy.

This multiauthored report offers wide-ranging assessments of increasing polarization and partisanship in American government and politics, and it proposes constructive responses to this in the provision of objective information, institutional reforms in government and the electoral system, and a reexamination of cultural and political values needed if democracy is to function well in a pluralistic and diverse society. The essays in the special report explore the norms of civic learning and institutions, social movements, and communal innovations that can revitalize civic learning in practice. 

Read more about this report here.