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By Lee Hamilton
Indiana University Center on Representative Government 

Commentary: We Make Progress When Citizens Tackle Small Stuff

 

Last updated 12/10/2019 at 4:53pm



One of the not-so-small gifts of living in a representative democracy is that you can’t accomplish things alone. Whether you’re trying to get a stop sign put up on a dangerous corner or to change US policy on greenhouse gas emissions, you have to reach out to others. And learning how to persuade, motivate, and involve them — learning the skills of active citizenship, in other words — ma...



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