Civics category: 1212 books
Sometimes Speaking with a Single Voice
The European Community as an International Actor, 19691979
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In the late 1960s, the European Community was a loose association of countries focusing on economic matters. By the late 1970s, it had become a real international actor: member states had started to coordinate their foreign policies, the EC had joined the United Nations and the G7, and it had established...
A Feminist in the White House
Midge Costanza, the Carter Years, and America's Culture Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
A feminist, an outspoken activist, a woman without a college education, Midge Costanza was one of the unlikeliest of White House insiders. Yet in 1977 she became the first female Assistant to the President for Public Liaison under Jimmy Carter, emerging as a prominent focal point of the American culture...
Organizing Political Parties
Representation, Participation, and Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Political party organizations play large roles in democracies, yet their organizations differ widely, and their statutes change much more frequently than constitutions or electoral laws. How do these differences, and these frequent changes, affect the operation of democracy? This book seeks to answer...
by Sidney Waldman
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2007
America and the Limits of the Politics of Selfishness examines Congress, the Presidency, the public, and public policy, demonstrating the important impact of the public's selfishness, morality, compassion, and religious beliefs on the American political system. The influence of public opinion on our...
by Mark T. Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Many Americans are longing for alternative politics rooted in strong communities, recognition of limits, and respect for the natural world. These issues are not the possession of one political party. Rather, they refer to ideas rooted deeply in the best aspects of our common tradition, and they represent...
The Next Democracy?
The Possibility of Popular Control
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Representative democracy has long been problematic and subject to erosion through the introduction of components of direct democracy (referenda, voter initiatives and systems of recall). Following the increase of direct action across the world, through the Occupy movement and the rise of new populist...
by Todd Gitlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
"Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for bearings, understanding, direction, and practical examples.In Letters to a Young Activist, Todd Gitlin looks back at his eventful life, recalling...
The Citizen Solution
How You Can Make A Difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.
Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public...
Assuming Boycott
Resistance, Agency and Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Street protests are one side of a worldwide citizens' movement. Another side is the increasing use of boycotts, one of the most powerful weapons in the organizer’s arsenal: it is an effective and moral lever for civil rights, most notably today in its adoption by the BDS movement.
Since the...
by Alero Ayida-Otobo
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book is a cry from the heart to see the emergence of a new kind of people - The Reformers. They are ‘young’ (in age and at heart), they are full of creative energy and passion. They are tired of the status quo, tired of the state of their nations. They are like you – they want to see change...
Citizenship and Social Movements
Perspectives from the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh,...
Mobilizing for Democracy
Citizen Action and the Politics of Public Participation
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms...
Growing Up in Transit
The Politics of Belonging at an International School
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In this compelling study of the children of serial migrants, Danau Tanu argues that the international schools they attend promote an ideology of being “international” that is Eurocentric. Despite the cosmopolitan rhetoric, hierarchies of race, culture and class shape popularity, friendships and...
The American Patriot's Handbook
The Writings, History, and Spirit of a Free Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
This revised and updated edition of The American Patriot's Handbook gives an authoritative and concise introduction to the ideas, events, and personalities that have shaped American freedom, ideals, and values. Included are important and inspirational speeches, poems and song lyrics along with profiles...