This is a strange description. "public servants, students, activists, and leaders"
So, regular adult citizens are...the bulk of the actual 'public' are part of the problem to be solved by the 4 addressed constituencies?
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Why is this strange? If the general public does more than vote, then they become activists, leaders, etc.
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We make choices of what services to use, where to live, what incentives to respond to, which cues to follow/ignore, take people seriously or make fun of them etc. We may be low-energy but we are not passives. We are active agents beyond voting. In aggregate the most important
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I think the four categories of people are basically way too self-important and over-rate their degree of influence on public affairs and the extent to which problems are theirs to solve
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The point of this book, and ones like it, is to help those people be more effective. I'm sure a big part of it is how to engage with the general public, etc.
Otherwise, you'd want a "US Citizenship, on Owner's Manual" kind of book which would be really different.
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