Civics category: 1212 books
True Faith and Allegiance
Immigration and American Civic Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2009
True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political...
The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Information Technology and Political Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people are...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In today’s world, citizenship is increasingly defined in normative terms. Political belonging comes to be equated with specific norms, values and appropriate behaviour, with distinctions made between virtuous, desirable citizens and deviant, undesirable ones. In this book, we analyze the formulation,...
Democratic Futures
Re-Visioning Democracy Promotion
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors. But what kinds of models of democracy do democracy promoters promote? This book examines in detail the conceptual orders that underpin democracy support activity,...
Democracy Promotion
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This critical introduction to democracy promotion seeks to provide students with an understanding of some of the key dynamics and contentions revolving around this controversial policy agenda.
Specifically, this textbook examines democracy promotion through seeking to answer, from the perspective...
Nationalism and Global Justice
David Miller and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, this collection brings together some of the most influential political contemporary philosophers to present a critical review of David Miller’s co-national priority thesis and give a state-of-the-art...
The Unbroken Machine
Canada's Democracy in Action
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017
What if it is not our political system that is broken, but our understanding of it?
Everybody thinks that it’s the system that’s broken in politics; but what if it’s not the system that’s broken but rather our understanding of it? What if everyone’s...
Modern Dilemmas
Understanding Collective Action in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Collective action problems are ubiquitous in situations involving human interactions and therefore lie at the heart of economy and political science. In one of the most salient statements on this topic, Elinor Ostrom, corecipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, claims that 'the theory...
Rule-breakers – Why ‘Being There’ Trumps ‘Being Fair’ in Ireland
Uncovering Ireland’s National Psyche
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
**Ireland is a nation on a value system that equates ‘being good’ with ‘being there for each other’. As a society we favour ‘minding our own’ over ‘doing what we’re told’.
So far, so Irish.**
It’s become a commonplace to refer to the excesses of the Celtic Tiger years...
Fred Dallmayr
Critical Phenomenology, Cross-cultural Theory, Cosmopolitanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Fred Dallmayr’s work is innovative in its rethinking of some of the central concepts of modern political philosophy, challenging the hegemony of a modern “subjectivity” at the heart of Western liberalism, individualism and rationalism, and articulating alternative voices, claims and ideas. His...
Framed
Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book should sit on every journalist’s desk next to the Canadian Press Stylebook. It will be of tremendous interest to scholars and students of political science, immigration and citizenship, multiculturalism, communications, journalism, media studies, women and gender studies, as well as politicians and policy analysts.
Participatory Democracy in Southern Europe
Causes, Characteristics and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This book on the differentiated politicisation of European governance provides an overview of research on the growing salience of EU governance, polarisation of opinion and expansion of actors and audiences engaged in monitoring and influencing EU affairs in the national context. The contributors...
Civic Work, Civic Lessons
Two Generations Reflect on Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Civic Work, Civic Lessons explains how and why people of all ages, and particularly young people, should engage in public service as a vocation or avocation. Its authors are 57 years apart in age, but united in their passion for public service, which they term “civic work.” The book provides unique...