Accountability Citizenship

Name: Accountability Citizenship
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Author: Stephen P. Tryon
ISBN: 9781479783571

by Stephen P. Tryon

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Book Details

Language : English

Publication Date : 18/02/2013

Format : E-Book

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 116

ISBN : 9781479783571

Format : Hardcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 118

ISBN : 9781479783564

Format : Softcover

Dimensions : 6x9

Page Count : 118

ISBN : 9781479783557

About the Book

Read this book if you want to be able to speak with your friends about your social and political beliefs with confidence. Striving to maintain a centrist perspective, Tryon presents a tool kit to empower citizen participation in the American political process. Technological changes in the way we present and process information coupled with inherent features of the free press have changed the nature of the individual citizen's engagement with our elected public servants.

Accountability Citizenship explains how we can restore accountability in government by accepting our personal accountability for some simple tasks we must do as individual citizens living in the age of information. The book is non-partisan. Readers are asked only to agree on the very basics-that the government of the United States is supposed to represent the people of the United States.

The author makes a compelling case that changes in our information distribution technologies and business models discourage effective political participation by citizens. In the early days of our republic, information distribution was based on newspapers-subscription-based and geographically aligned with the representative structure of Congress. Over the past forty years, deregulation of television and radio along with the information technology revolution have disrupted this alignment. But we can restore accountability through the three steps of accountability citizenship: being appropriately positive, appropriately informed and appropriately engaged.

About the Author

Stephen Tryon is a Senior Vice President at internet retailer Overstock.com, with responsibility for human resources and international business. He also has over twenty-one years of service as an American Soldier. At the end of his Army career, he served as a legislative fellow for Senator Max Cleland in Congress and as the legislative assistant to the senior general at Army headquarters in the Pentagon. Tryon brings decades of leadership and performance management experience in government and corporate America to craft Accountability Citizenship—a simple guide book for citizens who want accountability in their relationships with elected officials. Read this book if you want to be able to speak with your friends about your social and political beliefs with confidence. Striving to maintain a centrist perspective, Tryon presents a tool kit to empower citizen participation in the American political process. Technological changes in the way we present and process information coupled with inherent features of the free press have changed the nature of the individual citizen’s engagement with our elected public servants. Accountability Citizenship is a new paradigm of information-age citizenship for Americans: a simple system for taking positive control of the flood of information to which we are all exposed, processing that information in accordance with our individual beliefs and values, and holding elected officials accountable for representing those beliefs and values.

Customer Reviews

" I would like every library in America to carry this book. It is non-partisan and positive and full of great tips for effective political participation in our society. In particular, I think Steve Tryon does a great job of giving the reader a sense of empowerment. Just the simple fact that 87 percent of Congress comes up for re-election every two years is something I think many of us learn in school, but then forget. Tryon also goes to great lengths to describe why we should seek to understand the views of those with whom we disagree. The discussion of civil rights and women's rights are particularly powerful examples of why it is important to keep an open mind. There is a passion in this book that I find refreshing, because it seems to spring from the notion that my views are just as valid as the author's views, even if they are different.

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Sarah Young
" In a democracy, we get the government we deserve and Steve Tryon lays out a convincing case that we, as citizens, have failed to adapt to changes in the information we consume and in doing so have lost control of our elected representatives. He lays out a simple template for processing the information stream effectively,identifying and communicating one's priorities to Congressional representatives and holding them accountable. A well-written and reasoned argument that we can make a difference as citizens - and that our republic depends on us doing so. "

Ed White
" I would like every library in America to carry this book. It is non-partisan and positive and full of great tips for effective political participation in our society. In particular, I think Steve Tryon does a great job of giving the reader a sense of empowerment. Just the simple fact that 87 percent of Congress comes up for re-election every two years is something I think many of us learn in school, but then forget. Tryon also goes to great lengths to describe why we should seek to understand the views of those with whom we disagree. The discussion of civil rights and women's rights are particularly powerful examples of why it is important to keep an open mind. There is a passion in this book that I find refreshing, because it seems to spring from the notion that my views are just as valid as the author's views, even if they are different.

"

Sarah Young
" In a democracy, we get the government we deserve and Steve Tryon lays out a convincing case that we, as citizens, have failed to adapt to changes in the information we consume and in doing so have lost control of our elected representatives. He lays out a simple template for processing the information stream effectively,identifying and communicating one's priorities to Congressional representatives and holding them accountable. A well-written and reasoned argument that we can make a difference as citizens - and that our republic depends on us doing so. "

Ed White
"I would like every library in America to carry this book. It is non-partisan and positive and full of great tips for effective political participation in our society. In particular, I think Steve Tryon does a great job of giving the reader a sense of empowerment. Just the simple fact that 87 percent of Congress comes up for re-election every two years is something I think many of us learn in school, but then forget. Tryon also goes to great lengths to describe why we should seek to understand the views of those with whom we disagree. The discussion of civil rights and women's rights are particularly powerful examples of why it is important to keep an open mind. There is a passion in this book that I find refreshing, because it seems to spring from the notion that my views are just as valid as the author's views, even if they are different.

"

Sarah Young
"In a democracy, we get the government we deserve and Steve Tryon lays out a convincing case that we, as citizens, have failed to adapt to changes in the information we consume and in doing so have lost control of our elected representatives. He lays out a simple template for processing the information stream effectively,identifying and communicating one's priorities to Congressional representatives and holding them accountable. A well-written and reasoned argument that we can make a difference as citizens - and that our republic depends on us doing so."

Ed White

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