The politics and civics of national service
Bass, Melissa,
The politics and civics of national service lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps / [electronic resource] : Melissa Bass. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Washington, District of Columbia : Brookings Institution Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 304 pages))
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-294) and index.
Preface. 1. Introduction: National service as public policy for democracy -- 2. Citizenship and the elements of policy design -- Part I. The civilian conservation corps. 3. The CCC's roots and relationships -- 4. The CCC's purpose and government's role -- 5. The CCC's tools, rules, and targets -- II. Volunteers in service to America. 6. VISTA's roots and relationships -- 7. VISTA's purpose and government's role -- 8. VISTA's tools, rules, and targets -- III. AmeriCorps. 9. AmeriCorps's roots and relationships -- 10. AmeriCorps's purpose and government's role -- 11. AmeriCorps's policy tools, rules, and targets -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Making sense of the past and its lessons for the future -- Notes -- Index.
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet despite its success, the CCC was short lived.
9780815723813 0815723814
AmeriCorps*VISTA.
AmeriCorps (U.S.)
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Electronic books.
Voluntarism--United States.
National service--United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD4870.U6 / B37 2013
361.6
The politics and civics of national service lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps / [electronic resource] : Melissa Bass. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2013 Washington, District of Columbia : Brookings Institution Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 304 pages))
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-294) and index.
Preface. 1. Introduction: National service as public policy for democracy -- 2. Citizenship and the elements of policy design -- Part I. The civilian conservation corps. 3. The CCC's roots and relationships -- 4. The CCC's purpose and government's role -- 5. The CCC's tools, rules, and targets -- II. Volunteers in service to America. 6. VISTA's roots and relationships -- 7. VISTA's purpose and government's role -- 8. VISTA's tools, rules, and targets -- III. AmeriCorps. 9. AmeriCorps's roots and relationships -- 10. AmeriCorps's purpose and government's role -- 11. AmeriCorps's policy tools, rules, and targets -- IV. Conclusion. 12. Making sense of the past and its lessons for the future -- Notes -- Index.
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet despite its success, the CCC was short lived.
9780815723813 0815723814
AmeriCorps*VISTA.
AmeriCorps (U.S.)
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
Electronic books.
Voluntarism--United States.
National service--United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD4870.U6 / B37 2013
361.6