Harry C Boyte
Biographic Data
| ID | 1235533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harry C Boyte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harry C |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyte |
| SIGNATURE | BOYTE H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Higher Education and the Commonwealth
The following article argues that the idea, values, and practices of cultivating and sustaining the commonwealth from America’s higher education and democratic history provide multiple resources for addressing today’s challenges of polarization, fragmentation, authoritarianism, and degradation of the public world. It analyzes the declining public support for higher education and other public commons, including government, as the result of a wides…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Civic Studies: The University as Civic Catalyst
Colleges as Educational Commons
This essay argues that higher education, the authoritative knowledge institution of the age, is a source of growing divisions in the country and also of the dominant theory of power as controlling, politics as partisan warfare, and democracy as customer service. Turning John Dewey’s dictum that “education is the midwife of democracy” upside down, higher education trains professionals in every arena to see fellow citizens as clients and consumers …
Agency in an AI Avalanche: Education for Citizen Empowerment
Even before the global pandemic of COVID-19 dramatized the vulnerability of the world's systems of collective action and decision-making, apocalyptic warnings abounded about democracy's future. "We are entering the age of strong men," says the conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks. "In America the basic fabric of civic self-government seems to be eroding following the loss of faith in democratic ideals." 1 The left wing intellectual …
Repairing America's Roots: The Citizen Professional Challenge
This article examines the role professionals can play in expanding the concept and practice of democracy. It argues that the ways professionals are usually socialized to understand their work identities and practices displace or even suppress the popular agency of lay citizens and this has contributed significantly to the shrinking of democracy, since professionals play outsized roles in shaping the institutions of today's knowledge societies. Pr…
Nonviolence as Positive Liberty
This reflection on Ian Shapiro's recent book, Politics against Domination, argues that there are strengths to conceiving of politics as a struggle against domination but the argument neglects the actual democratic politics of actual movements such as the African American freedom struggle. In the civil rights movement, in particular, nonviolence added to older understandings of politics as engagement across difference a view of positive liberty, r…
Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
“A Liberation of Powers”: Agency and Education for Democracy
In this essay Harry Boyte and Margaret Finders argue that addressing the “shrinkage” of education and democracy requires acting politically to reclaim and augment Deweyan agency‐focused concepts of democracy and education. Looking at agency from the vantage of civic studies, which advances a politics of agency — a citizen politics that is different from ideological politics — and citizens as cocreators of political communities, Boyte and Finders …
An Education Movement for Democracy: A Review of Margaret A. Post, Elaine Ward, Nicholas V. Longo, and John Saltmarsh, eds., Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Hig…
Laudato Si' , Civic Studies, and the Future of Democracy
Pope Francis authored Laudato Si' as a statement on climate change, and it has provoked intense discussion and debate on climate around the world. The statement's contributions to the topic are most welcome.1 Yet few have noted the encyclical's resources for addressing a more general crisis in the contemporary world, a crisis of democracy understood as collective agency.2 This crisis erodes human capacities to address a multitude of challenges, f…
Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
Deliberative Democracy, Public Work, and Civic Agency
This essay locates deliberation and deliberative theory as an important strand in a larger interdisciplinary and political movement, civic agency. The civic agency movement, and its related politics, a politics of civic empowerment, include a set of developing practices and concepts which enhance the capacities of diverse groups of people to work across differences to solve problems, create things of common value, and negotiate a shared democrati…
The New Civic Politics
We see before us an emerging civic politics, along with an emerging intellectual community, a field, and a discipline. Its work is to understand and strengthen civic politics, civic initiatives, civic capacity, civic society and civic culture. It is emerging in many disciplines and fields of human endeavor.What does it mean to put the civic idea at the center of one's concerns in this way? And what is its connection to citizenship? What, finally,…
Civil Society and Public Work
Populism—Bringing Culture Back In
In recent years, “populism” has been claimed by left and right alike. According to the late David Broder of The Washington Post, Sarah Palin issued “a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message.”1 Progressives contest the label. “To rebuild its coalition, the left must return to its populist roots,” argues Eric Alterman in The New York Times.2 E.J. Dionne, noting the “kaleidoscope of populisms,” calls for “a new seriousness about what Populism…
Public Work and the Politics of the Commons
Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature
This essay argues that fulfilling the promise of participatory democratic theory requires ways for citizens to reconstruct the world, not simply to improve its governance processes. The concept of public work, expressing civic agency, or the capacity of diverse citizens to build a democratic way of life, embodies this shift. It posits citizens as co-creators of the world, not simply deliberators and decision-makers about the world. Public work is…
A Commonwealth of Freedom: Response to Beltrán
This response to Cristina Beltrán’s essay “Going Public” endorses Beltrán’s effort to sustain a concept of politics as free action by unique agents against the grain of a technicized, marketized world. Beltrán illuminates the “festive anger” of undocumented workers coming out of the shadows of invisibility to assert their humanity in the demonstrations of 2006. Yet, building on aspects of Hannah Arendt (but neglecting others), Beltrán mistakenly …
Reframing Democracy: Governance, Civic Agency, and Politics
Developments in public affairs that stress governance— not simply government—hold possibilities for reframing democracy. Governance intimates a paradigm shift in the meaning of democracy and civic agency—that is, who is to address public problems and promote the general welfare? The shift involves a move from citizens as simply voters, volunteers, and consumers to citizens as problem solvers and cocreators of public goods; from public leaders, su…
Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Preface. Developing a Theory and Practice of Everyday Politics Chapter 1. The Stirrings of a New Politics Chapter 2. Populisms Chapter 3. The Growth of Everyday Politics Chapter 4. Citizenship as Public Work Chapter 5. Citizen Education as a Craft, not a Program Chapter 6. The Jane Addams School for Democracy Chapter 7. Professions as Public Work Chapter 8. Architects of Democracy Chapter 9. Spreading Everyday Politics Chapter 10.
Civic Populism
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once argued, “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.” Today, politics, as conventionally understood, illustrates the unspoken danger in Moynihan's point. Politics itself reflects larger trends that point not toward success but toward social failure. Superficial sloganeering, domination by marketplace modes of thought, and bitter sectarian divisions—cult…
Democracy on Trial. Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
Journal Article The Populist Persuasion: An American History. By Michael Kazin. (New York: Basic-Books, 1995. xii, 381 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-465-03793-3.) Get access Harry C. Boyte Harry C. Boyte University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1594–1595, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945377 Published: 01 March 1996
Civic Education as Public Leadership Development
Mancur Olson, can you tell us why this is?Mancur Olson: Yes, I think so.Individuals and firms in stable societies inevitably form dense networks of collusive, cartelistic, and lobbying organizations that make economies less efficient and polities less governable.Countries that have had democratic freedom of organization without upheaval or invasion the longest will suffer the most from growthrepressing organizations and combinations.The solution …
Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature
This essay argues that fulfilling the promise of participatory democratic theory requires ways for citizens to reconstruct the world, not simply to improve its governance processes. The concept of public work, expressing civic agency, or the capacity of diverse citizens to build a democratic way of life, embodies this shift. It posits citizens as co-creators of the world, not simply deliberators and decision-makers about the world. Public work is…
Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Preface. Developing a Theory and Practice of Everyday Politics Chapter 1. The Stirrings of a New Politics Chapter 2. Populisms Chapter 3. The Growth of Everyday Politics Chapter 4. Citizenship as Public Work Chapter 5. Citizen Education as a Craft, not a Program Chapter 6. The Jane Addams School for Democracy Chapter 7. Professions as Public Work Chapter 8. Architects of Democracy Chapter 9. Spreading Everyday Politics Chapter 10.
Civic Populism
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once argued, “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.” Today, politics, as conventionally understood, illustrates the unspoken danger in Moynihan's point. Politics itself reflects larger trends that point not toward success but toward social failure. Superficial sloganeering, domination by marketplace modes of thought, and bitter sectarian divisions—cult…
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation
Free spaces: The sources of democratic change in America
Populism—Bringing Culture Back In
In recent years, “populism” has been claimed by left and right alike. According to the late David Broder of The Washington Post, Sarah Palin issued “a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message.”1 Progressives contest the label. “To rebuild its coalition, the left must return to its populist roots,” argues Eric Alterman in The New York Times.2 E.J. Dionne, noting the “kaleidoscope of populisms,” calls for “a new seriousness about what Populism…
A Commonwealth of Freedom: Response to Beltrán
This response to Cristina Beltrán’s essay “Going Public” endorses Beltrán’s effort to sustain a concept of politics as free action by unique agents against the grain of a technicized, marketized world. Beltrán illuminates the “festive anger” of undocumented workers coming out of the shadows of invisibility to assert their humanity in the demonstrations of 2006. Yet, building on aspects of Hannah Arendt (but neglecting others), Beltrán mistakenly …
The New Civic Politics
We see before us an emerging civic politics, along with an emerging intellectual community, a field, and a discipline. Its work is to understand and strengthen civic politics, civic initiatives, civic capacity, civic society and civic culture. It is emerging in many disciplines and fields of human endeavor.What does it mean to put the civic idea at the center of one's concerns in this way? And what is its connection to citizenship? What, finally,…
Civic Education as Public Leadership Development
Mancur Olson, can you tell us why this is?Mancur Olson: Yes, I think so.Individuals and firms in stable societies inevitably form dense networks of collusive, cartelistic, and lobbying organizations that make economies less efficient and polities less governable.Countries that have had democratic freedom of organization without upheaval or invasion the longest will suffer the most from growthrepressing organizations and combinations.The solution …
No Ceasefires: The War on Poverty in Roanoke Valley
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation
Free spaces: The sources of democratic change in America
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
The New Populism
I call myself a populist. It avoids the goddamn liberal label. Radical means get to the root of things. Conservative means to conserve .... So I call myself a radical conservative. I want to get to the roots of things .... Populism is taking part in your community. Populism is in the best interest of a great many people, if theycan determine what their best interests are .... Populism can go both ways. It's not always good. It can also be racist.…
CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics
Civic Education as Public Leadership Development
Mancur Olson, can you tell us why this is?Mancur Olson: Yes, I think so.Individuals and firms in stable societies inevitably form dense networks of collusive, cartelistic, and lobbying organizations that make economies less efficient and polities less governable.Countries that have had democratic freedom of organization without upheaval or invasion the longest will suffer the most from growthrepressing organizations and combinations.The solution …
Democracy on Trial. Jean Bethke Elshtain
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
Journal Article The Populist Persuasion: An American History. By Michael Kazin. (New York: Basic-Books, 1995. xii, 381 pp. $24.00, ISBN 0-465-03793-3.) Get access Harry C. Boyte Harry C. Boyte University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1594–1595, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945377 Published: 01 March 1996
Civic Populism
Daniel Patrick Moynihan once argued, “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society.” Today, politics, as conventionally understood, illustrates the unspoken danger in Moynihan's point. Politics itself reflects larger trends that point not toward success but toward social failure. Superficial sloganeering, domination by marketplace modes of thought, and bitter sectarian divisions—cult…
Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Preface. Developing a Theory and Practice of Everyday Politics Chapter 1. The Stirrings of a New Politics Chapter 2. Populisms Chapter 3. The Growth of Everyday Politics Chapter 4. Citizenship as Public Work Chapter 5. Citizen Education as a Craft, not a Program Chapter 6. The Jane Addams School for Democracy Chapter 7. Professions as Public Work Chapter 8. Architects of Democracy Chapter 9. Spreading Everyday Politics Chapter 10.
Reframing Democracy: Governance, Civic Agency, and Politics
Developments in public affairs that stress governance— not simply government—hold possibilities for reframing democracy. Governance intimates a paradigm shift in the meaning of democracy and civic agency—that is, who is to address public problems and promote the general welfare? The shift involves a move from citizens as simply voters, volunteers, and consumers to citizens as problem solvers and cocreators of public goods; from public leaders, su…
A Commonwealth of Freedom: Response to Beltrán
This response to Cristina Beltrán’s essay “Going Public” endorses Beltrán’s effort to sustain a concept of politics as free action by unique agents against the grain of a technicized, marketized world. Beltrán illuminates the “festive anger” of undocumented workers coming out of the shadows of invisibility to assert their humanity in the demonstrations of 2006. Yet, building on aspects of Hannah Arendt (but neglecting others), Beltrán mistakenly …
Public Work and the Politics of the Commons
Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature
This essay argues that fulfilling the promise of participatory democratic theory requires ways for citizens to reconstruct the world, not simply to improve its governance processes. The concept of public work, expressing civic agency, or the capacity of diverse citizens to build a democratic way of life, embodies this shift. It posits citizens as co-creators of the world, not simply deliberators and decision-makers about the world. Public work is…
Civil Society and Public Work
Populism—Bringing Culture Back In
In recent years, “populism” has been claimed by left and right alike. According to the late David Broder of The Washington Post, Sarah Palin issued “a pitch-perfect recital of the populist message.”1 Progressives contest the label. “To rebuild its coalition, the left must return to its populist roots,” argues Eric Alterman in The New York Times.2 E.J. Dionne, noting the “kaleidoscope of populisms,” calls for “a new seriousness about what Populism…
Deliberative Democracy, Public Work, and Civic Agency
This essay locates deliberation and deliberative theory as an important strand in a larger interdisciplinary and political movement, civic agency. The civic agency movement, and its related politics, a politics of civic empowerment, include a set of developing practices and concepts which enhance the capacities of diverse groups of people to work across differences to solve problems, create things of common value, and negotiate a shared democrati…
The New Civic Politics
We see before us an emerging civic politics, along with an emerging intellectual community, a field, and a discipline. Its work is to understand and strengthen civic politics, civic initiatives, civic capacity, civic society and civic culture. It is emerging in many disciplines and fields of human endeavor.What does it mean to put the civic idea at the center of one's concerns in this way? And what is its connection to citizenship? What, finally,…
Democracy's Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities
“A Liberation of Powers”: Agency and Education for Democracy
In this essay Harry Boyte and Margaret Finders argue that addressing the “shrinkage” of education and democracy requires acting politically to reclaim and augment Deweyan agency‐focused concepts of democracy and education. Looking at agency from the vantage of civic studies, which advances a politics of agency — a citizen politics that is different from ideological politics — and citizens as cocreators of political communities, Boyte and Finders …
An Education Movement for Democracy: A Review of Margaret A. Post, Elaine Ward, Nicholas V. Longo, and John Saltmarsh, eds., Publicly Engaged Scholars: Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Hig…
Laudato Si' , Civic Studies, and the Future of Democracy
Pope Francis authored Laudato Si' as a statement on climate change, and it has provoked intense discussion and debate on climate around the world. The statement's contributions to the topic are most welcome.1 Yet few have noted the encyclical's resources for addressing a more general crisis in the contemporary world, a crisis of democracy understood as collective agency.2 This crisis erodes human capacities to address a multitude of challenges, f…
Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
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