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Information Polity 17 (2012) 195â196 DOI 10.3233/IP-2012-0277 IOS Press Book Review Government Is Us 2.0, Edited by Cheryl S. King, April 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, ISBN 978-0-7656-2501 (cloth), 978-0-7656-2502 (paper) 256 Pages This book is a follow up to Government Is Us: Public Administration In an Antigovernment Era [2]. That book was conceived in the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City by an American citizen, a self-proclaimed anti-government zealot who was a member of a domestic militia movement. In the original volume, the editors sought to collect essays on administrator-citizen interactions in government situations that would highlight the issues involved. The emphasis of the ï¬rst book was on the need for citizen involvement in government beyond the act of voting. It called for increased and innovative citizen engagement in administrative governance Needless to say, a lot has happened since 1998. As the editor points out, antigovernment sentiment has increased [5] and hate groups and antigovernment militia movements are growing stronger [5]. Cheryl King and Renee Nank point out in the ï¬rst chapter that U.S. citizensâ attitudes toward their government have had their ups and downs throughout American history, but that
Information Polity – IOS Press
Published: Jan 1, 2012
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