Civics category: 1212 books
Political Leadership, Parties and Citizens
The personalisation of leadership
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the significance of personality in political leadership has...
Ufficio di scollocamento
Una proposta per ricominciare a vivere
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 10, 2012
È una notizia, non una provocazione: il primo Ufficio di collocamento è nato all'inizio del 2012 da un'idea elementare degli autori di questo libro. Il lavoratore infelice e frustrato, che si sente un estraneo in gabbia, è anche poco produttivo. Aiutarlo a scollocarsi è un vantaggio per la collettività...
by Juliet Hooker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
Solidarity--the reciprocal relations of trust and obligation between citizens that are essential for a thriving polity--is a basic goal of all political communities. Yet it is extremely difficult to achieve, especially in multiracial societies. In an era of increasing global migration and democratization,...
Contested and Shared Places of Memory
History and politics in North Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Baltic–Russian debates on the past have become a hot spot of European memory politics. Violent protests and international tensions accompanying the removal of the "Bronze Soldier" monument, which commemorated the Soviet liberation of Tallinn in 1944, from the city centre in April 2007...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The focus of this book is to analyse from a number of perspectives the politics of change in Ireland north and south since 1969. The emergence of the troubles in Northern Ireland, the final push to gain entry to the EEC, changing social mores and severe economic difficulties all begin to appear on...
International Statebuilding
The Rise of Post-Liberal Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding interventions. The book covers the theoretical frameworks and practices of international statebuilding, the debates they have triggered, and the way that international...
Global Ethics
Anarchy, Freedom and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms....
by Stephnie Clark
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Here is what the US core citizens (the family) can accomplish with help from Keep Voting, America: Have a better understanding of how the United States evolved. Develop an honest, moral, industrious lifestyle void of tyranny. Continue voting to assure the right to run the country at all levels of...
Be Vigilant But Not Afraid
The Farewell Speeches of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States of America, ended his second—and final—term in office on January 20th, 2017.
For eight years, President Obama, along with then-First Lady Michelle Obama, worked to define a new America; a better nation: one that was more inclusive, prosperous and...
Rushed to Judgment
Talk Radio, Persuasion, and American Political Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Convenient, entertaining, and provocative, talk radio today is unapologetically ideological. Focusing on Rush Limbaugh—the medium's most influential talk show—Rushed to Judgment systematically examines the politics of persuasion at play on our nation's radio airwaves and asks a series of important...
by JP Tate
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This is the latest in JP Tate's critiques of contemporary politics and postmodern society. Readers familiar with Tate's writing style will know that the wearing of a seat-belt is advised. Fast and furious, yet calculated and logical, he takes his readers through a line of reasoning that provides a...
Deport, Deprive, Extradite
21st Century State Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The extradition of terror suspects reveals the worst features of the security state
In 2012 five Muslim men—Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary, and Abu Hamza—were extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism-related charges. Fahad Hashmi was deported a few...
The Seventh Earl Beauchamp
A Victim of His Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a prominent figure in English public life in the years 1900–30, but his career ended in scandal. He was barred from English soil, his reputation was destroyed and his papers were withheld from public view. In this book, Peter Raina uses previously unreleased documents...
Surviving Government: Part Four - Political Integrity
Surviving Government, #4
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Surviving Government presents an understanding of Canadian local government for the individual citizen, and how each citizen can influence, modify, and survive the decisions, actions, and effects of government.
The work is in four volumes, each concentrating on one of four aspects of government:...