Civics category: 1212 books
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Talking Sense about Politics
How to Overcome Political Polarization in Your Next Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Do you avoid talking about politics with family and friends? Are you concerned that political polarization is blocking discussion of realistic solutions for America's problems?
Talking Sense about Politics cuts through the noise of false and misleading contrasts of left vs. right, liberal vs....
by Janine Wedel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
A groundbreaking book that challenges Americans to reevaluate our views on how a new and more sophisticated style of corruption and private interests have infiltrated every level of society.
From the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street, however divergent their political views, these groups seem...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
In the past two decades, '"civil society" has become a central organizing concept in the social sciences. Occupying the middle ground between the state and private life, the civil sphere encompasses everything from associations to protests to church groups to nongovernmental organizations. Interest...
Contested Citizenship in East Asia
Developmental Politics, National Unity, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Theories of citizenship from the West – pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall – provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history.
The Marshallian trajectory – juridical, political and social rights – was not repeated in Asia and the late nineteenth-century debate about...
India's Unique Transformation Programme
Solutions to Move India in the Top Ten of the UN Human Development Index
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
About the Book:- Challenge to Indian political leaders- are they competent, capable, desirous and willing to fulfill the real deserved needs of all the citizens everywhere in India? This book presents, after a brief introduction, a critical, factual analysis of the prevailing situation in India with...
by William Davies
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
In this age of intense political conflict, we sense objective fact is growing less important. Experts are attacked as partisan, statistics and scientific findings are decried as propaganda, and public debate devolves into personal assaults. How did we get here, and what can we do about it?
In...
Organizing the Unorganized: Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 3
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality. The author situates this struggle within the...
by Gini Graham Scott Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
THE DONALD TRUMP PAPERS is a collection of fairy tales, monster myths, kids' stories, cartoons, poems, and commentary about Trump's improbable campaign and presidency. It features thoughts, along with photos and illustrations, on recent news about Trump's campaign, election,...
by Richard C. Box
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
Public service values are too rarely discussed in public administration courses and scholarship, despite recent research demonstrating the importance of these values in the daily decision making processes of public service professionals. A discussion of these very tenets and their relevance to...
The Convention on the Future of Europe
How States Behave in a New Institutional Context of Negotiation
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The negotiation of new treaties, containing important institutional innovations and reforms, has been a constant challenge for the EU ever since the 1950s. When compared with the classic intergovernmental conferences, the Convention on the Future of Europe stands as a Copernican revolution that radically...
Towards a New Pensions Settlement
The International Experience
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
In a world of ageing populations, and in the midst of a global shift from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) pensions, the onus is increasingly on individuals rather than employers to bear the risks of retirement provision. This book weighs the experiences of eight nations across the...
Citizens in Europe
Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist...
Citizenship and Solidarity in the European Union
From the Charter of Fundamental Rights to the Crisis, the State of the Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
This book attempts to address an important question: where is the European project going?
As Europe struggles with the most profound economic and social crises in recent history, what happens to the promises of freedom, democracy, equality and respect for the inviolable and inalienable rights of the...