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13.11.2009 r.
How Everyday Altruism Can Help Build Civil Society
Lecture by Professor Deborah Stone (Dartmouth College): " How Everyday Altruism Can Help Build Civil Society"
Thursday, November 19, 2009, at 15.00; Auditorium D, Collegium Civitas.
ABSTRACT: Civil society encompasses social associations and activities somewhere between the private sphere and government institutions. Building civil society requires that citizens value and trust people beyond their immediate circles enough to cooperate with them and work collectively to solve common problems through political participation. Professor Stone will discuss her research on how altruism in everyday private life and voluntary work builds the essential prerequisites of civic engagement, and how leaders can stimulate this process.
Deborah Stone, Ph.D., Research Professor of Government, Dartmouth College (USA), has a Ph.D. in Political Science from M.I.T. and 25 years of experience teaching about politics, social policy and analytic thinking. She has held visiting professorships at the Yale School of Organization and Management, Tulane University, Radcliffe College, and the University of Bremen, Germany. Her book, Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (W.W. Norton, 1997 and 2001) is used in teaching programs around the world. In 2002, it won the American Political Science Association’s Aaron Wildavsky Award for an Enduring Contribution to Policy Studies. In 2000, she started The Lempster Owl, a quarterly magazine for her home town (population 960), as an experiment in writing as social capital.
Stone is a founding member of the Health Section of the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard Law School, Harvard University Program on Ethics and the Professions, the Open Society Institute, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2000 she received a Mentor Award from the Women's Caucus of the American Political Science Association, as well as the Miriam K. Mills Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Policy Studies.
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