Taking Parts: Ingredients for Leadership, Participation, and Empowerment

This book is a contribution to the contemporary debate about how Americans can take an active part in shaping their lives and communities. In it the authors show some possibilities for meaningful social action at a time when many Americans seem disillusioned about their prospects for influencing events and policies. The authors produce a work that reveals what it is like to think seriously in collaboration with others, inviting readers into the work as partners.

Michael A. Leiserson is a Professor of Political Science at Gonzaga University. Jane A. Rinehart is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Gonzaga University.