56. The Role of Voluntarism & Volunteerism in America with Elisabeth Clemens
Volunteer Nation
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The Rise of Volunteerism in American Democracy
There's a few areas where I think volunteerism might be reemerging in this way of engaging citizens and making change. People have major stake in that if they're marginalized and their communities are feeling the push against their liberties and enfranchisement. And one of the things that particular issues combined with ways of organizing participation can have an important impact is by helping people to see that while their individual vote may not be able to have an immediate impact on some existentially threatening issue, they can at least have the experience of changing their own lives,. Even if it's something specific and local."
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