• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Introduction: Key Issues in Civic Engagement Research Today -Susan A. Ostrander and Kent E. Portney

Civic Engagement in Local Contexts and in Political versus Nonpolitical Voluntary Associations
Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Associations, and Social Capital - Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry
• Grassroots Organizing in Boston Chinatown: A Comparison with CDC-style Organizing - Lydia Lowe and Doug Brugge
• Building Power in Minority Neighborhoods: Boston University Medical Center’s Bio-safety Level Four Laboratory - Julian Agyeman and Heather Ross
• Could Civic Engagement Reproduce Political Inequality? - Sarah Sobieraj and Deborah White

Civic Engagement in Societal Institutions: Health Care and Education
Consumer-Sponsored Health Care Plans: Early Twentieth-Century Public Participation in U.S. Health Care - Charlene A. Galarneau
• Teacher Education as Civic Engagement: Building Bridges and Community through Professional Development Schools - Linda V. Beardsley
• Race Matters in Civic Engagement Work - Jean Y. Wu
• Three Major Foundations and the Decline in Funding for Higher Education Civic Engagement, 1995 to 2005 - Susan A. Ostrander

Index