TY - GEN T1 - The politics and civics of national service : lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps A1 - Bass, Melissa LA - English PP - Washington, D.C. PB - Brookings Institution Press YR - 2013 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn824363016 AB - In this book, the author focuses on the history, relevance, and impact of domestic national service. She argues that only by examining programs over time can we understand national service's successes and limitations, both in terms of its political support and its civic lessons. Based on extensive archival and documentary research, supplemented with interviews, this book provides a detailed policy history of VISTA and AmeriCorps and of America's main national service programs taken together as a whole. Moreover, the author furthers our understanding of twentieth-century American political development by comparing programs founded during three distinct political eras - the New Deal, the Great Society, and the early Clinton years - and tracing them over time. To a remarkable extent, the CCC, VISTA, and AmeriCorps reflect the policymaking ethos and political controversies of their times, illuminating principles that hold well beyond the field of national service. This book evaluates the civic effects of national service policy in the context of political development in the United States. At the same time, by emphasizing the programs' effects on citizenship and civic engagement, this volume deepens our understanding of how programs can act as "public policy for democracy." -- Publisher's website. OP - 304 CN - HD4870.U6 B37 2013eb SN - 9780815723813 SN - 0815723814 SN - 9780815723806 SN - 815723806 SN - 9781283939775 SN - 1283939770 KW - Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) KW - AmeriCorps (Program : U.S.) KW - AmeriCorps*VISTA. KW - AmeriCorps*VISTA KW - National service : United States. KW - Voluntarism : United States. KW - Service national : EĢtats-Unis. KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Social Services & Welfare. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Human Services. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Volunteer Work. KW - National service KW - Voluntarism KW - United States ER -