Kevin Mattson

(1966) Historian

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Kevin Mattson is a historian, best known for Liberalism for a new century.

Quick Facts About Kevin Mattson

Born: January 1, 1966
Profession: Historian
Notable works: Liberalism for a new century

About Kevin Mattson

Kevin Mattson is an American historian and critic. Mattson received his BA from the New School for Social Research and his PhD from the University of Rochester. For several years he ran the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Kevin Mattson

A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their…

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Arguing

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At the 1894 ALA conference it was fairly well agreed that the primary goal of the public library must be to teach…

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Benefits

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Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should…

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Arguing

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From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of public deliberation,…

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Acting

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I just can't imagine that it's only a coincidence. I think they feel that it's kind of getting out of their control,…

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Coincidence

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