Civics category: 1212 books
by Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown USAR (Ret.)
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
For over thirty years, Soldier of Fortune magazine has been the go to magazine for supporting those individuals who have the courage to fight. Whether they fight for those who cannot defend themselves or they fight simply to uphold their beliefs...whomoever is in service to others and is willing to stand...
by Daniele Caramani, Florian Grotz
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book discusses how the extension of voting rights beyond citizenship (i.e., to non-national immigrants) and residence (i.e., to expatriates) can be interpreted in the light of democratization processes in both Western countries and in developing regions. It does so by inserting the globalization-specific...
Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens
The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
During 1995 and 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law three bills that altered the rights and responsibilities of immigrants: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Personal Responsibility Act, and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. Model Immigrants...
The Most Dangerous Man in America
Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Rush Limbaugh is the most prominent figure in the conservative movement today. With almost 20 million listeners every week on more than six hundred stations, Limbaugh has a larger media platform than any other individual in the nation. And this is why he is so dangerous.
Despite refusing to uphold...
by Robert Bellah, Richard Madsen, Steve Tipton
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.
Understanding the Global Experience
Becoming a Responsible World Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
First Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
by Michael Singer
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Jury Duty: Reclaiming Your Political Power and Taking Responsibility presents an accessible account of the origins and development of the jury system as well as a comprehensive, stage-by-stage description of a jury trial and of the sentencing procedure in a criminal trial. The work also provides a...
The Citizen and the Alien
Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Citizenship presents two faces. Within a political community it stands for inclusion and universalism, but to outsiders, citizenship means exclusion. Because these aspects of citizenship appear spatially and jurisdictionally separate, they are usually regarded as complementary. In fact, the inclusionary...
by Benito Cao
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The increasing awareness of the human impact on the environment is having a profound effect on the concept and content of citizenship – one of the fundamental institutions that structures human relations. In what is the first introduction of its kind, this book provides an accessible, stimulating...
Social Capital and Associations in European Democracies
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This unique book offers an empirical assessment of how social and political involvement relates to theories of citizenship and democracy, providing a detailed comparative assessment of the potential that voluntary organizations offer citizens for social and political participation in several European...
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 4. 19712014: The Exclusion of Hereditary Peers Book 1: 19712001 Book 2: 20022014
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Peter Raina’s magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4 he brings his study up to the present age.
The Thatcher and Blair governments were both determined to shake up the system,...
The Shadow University
The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1999
Universities once believed themselves to be sacred enclaves, where students and professors could debate the issues of the day and arrive at a better understanding of the human condition. Today, sadly, this ideal of the university is being quietly betrayed from within. Universities still set themselves...
Framed
America's 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
In his widely acclaimed volume Our Undemocratic Constitution, Sanford Levinson boldly argued that our Constitution should not be treated with "sanctimonious reverence," but as a badly flawed document deserving revision. Now Levinson takes us deeper, asking what were the original assumptions...
A Pocket Guide to the US Constitution
What Every American Needs to Know, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The Constitution is not so simple that it explains itself—nor so complex that only experts can understand it.
In this accessible, nonpartisan quick reference, historian Andrew Arnold provides concise explanations of the Constitution's meaning and history, offering little-known facts and anecdotes...