Civics category: 1212 books
by Ranabir Samaddar
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India and its companion volume Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing...
White Enough to Be American?
Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Racial mixture posed a distinct threat to European American perceptions of the nation and state in the late nineteenth century, says Lauren Basson, as it exposed and disrupted the racial categories that organized political and social life in the United States. Offering a provocative conceptual approach...
The Political Potential of Sortition
A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition...
Summary of America the Beautiful
by Ben Carson | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Summary of America the Beautiful by Ben Carson | Includes Analysis
Inside this Instaread Summary:
-Overview of the entrie book
-Introduction to the important people in the book
-Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book
-Key Takeaways...
Senses and Citizenships
Embodying Political Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms...
by Baker, Wayne, McLaren
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
First, this book is unique in subject. Dr. Wayne Baker is reporting a surprising truth about Americans: We are united by 10 Core Values. This truth is empowering because it enables us to rise above and see beyond political polarization, Washington gridlock, the imagery of Red/Blue states, and the...
Museum Rhetoric
Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In today’s diverse societies, museums are the primary institutions within the public sphere in which individuals can both engage critical thought and celebrate community. This volume uses the lens of rhetoric to explore the role these societal repositories play in establishing and altering cultural...
by Szabolcs Pogonyi
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book explores the causes and consequences of the discursive and legal construction of the Hungarian transborder nation through the institutionalization of non-resident citizenship and voting. Through the in-depth analysis of Hungarian transborder and diaspora politics, this book investigates...
Young Citizens
Young People's Involvement in Politics and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the disengagement of young people from conventional politics both in Britain and internationally. Their non-participation is often viewed as reflecting both a deeper political alienation and 'apathy' amongst young people, and a wider political malaise...
Law Enforcement and the INS
A Participant Observation Study of Control Agents
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This book updates prior research that utilized the perceptions of criminal investigators of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS), and compares these perceptions with immigration enforcement priorities that were implemented post 911, through the Obama Administration up to the Trump presidency....
by Stanley A. Renshon
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2009
Continuing large-scale migration to the United States raises the question of how best to integrate new immigrants into the American national community. Traditionally, one successful answer has been to encourage immigrants to learn our language, culture, history, and civic traditions. New immigrants...
Technology and the New Generation of Active Citizens
Emerging Research and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
New media forums have created a unique opportunity for citizens to participate in a variety of social and political contexts. The public is able to interact more effectively in activities within their communities as new technologies are being created and utilized. Technology and the New Generation...
Contested Loyalty
Debates over Patriotism in the Civil War North
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars on the critical questions of patriotism and loyalty in the Union
Disability and Social Movements
Learning from Australian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book provides the reader with a ground-breaking understanding of disability and social movements. By describing how disability is philosophically, historically, and theoretically positioned, Carling-Jenkins is able to then examine disability relationally through an evaluation of the contributions...