Civics category: 1212 books
by Francis Therrien
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Depuis 2008, les Islandais se sont mobilisés pour définir collectivement leur loi fondamentale. Le Québec pourrait-il s’en inspirer afin de sortir de son impasse constitutionnelle?
The Public and Its Possibilities
Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2010
In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfieldargues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests. Inspired by the revolutionary generation, nineteenth-century Americans...
Communities and Law
Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical dimensions of community--nationality, social stratification, gender, religion, ethnicity, and legal consciousness--within...
Reconsidering the Insular Cases
The Past and Future of the American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
Over a century ago the United States Supreme Court decided the “Insular Cases,” which limited the applicability of constitutional rights in Puerto Rico and other overseas territories. Essays in Reconsidering the Insular Cases examine the history and legacy of these cases and explore possible solutions for the dilemmas they created.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
The Canadian General Election of 2004 is the definitive study of the campaign and the election. The 2004 edition includes analyses of:
The campaigns of the 4 major parties and smaller parties
The role of newspapers, television and the internet in the campaigns
The pre-election polls
Voting patterns...
Summary of Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America - Cass R. Sunstein
Summary of Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America - Cass R. Sunstein
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Cass R. Sunstein in his book “Radicals in Robes, Why Extreme Right-wing Courts are Wrong for America”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work...
Dual Citizenship in Europe
From Nationhood to Societal Integration
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In an age of terrorism and securitized immigration, dual citizenship is of central theoretical and political concern. The contributors to this timely volume examine policies regarding dual citizenship across Europe, covering a wide spectrum of countries. The case studies explore the negotiated character...
Beyond Citizenship
American Identity After Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
American identity has always been capacious as a concept but narrow in its application. Citizenship has mostly been about being here, either through birth or residence. The territorial premises for citizenship have worked to resolve the peculiar challenges of American identity. But globalization is...
Speaking Truth to Power Signs from the 2017 Women's March
Speaking Truth to Power, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Were you one of the millions who marched in the Women's March on January 21, 2017? We were overwhelmed by the hopeful spirit of the day and the way marchers used signs to speak their truth to power. In this book we have gathered those signs and truths and combined them with quotes that speak to...
Richard E. Flathman
Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism and Opalescent Individuality
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Richard E. Flathman is a ground-breaking theorist of key political concepts, a fierce defender of individuality, a close and original reader of Hobbes and an advocate of a willful conception of liberalism.
In this volume P E Digeser draws together some of his key works. The collection is framed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen...
The Politics of Happiness
What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
During the past forty years, thousands of studies have been carried out on the subject of happiness. Some have explored the levels of happiness or dissatisfaction associated with typical daily activities, such as working, seeing friends, or doing household chores. Others have tried to determine the...
by Helena Helve, Claire Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This title was first published in 2001. This book brings together a range of perspectives about citizenship and empowerment from around the globe. It thus approaches these important topics from a wide variety of directions, including different geo-political contexts, empirical studies, theoretical...
by Victor A. Pestoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The welfare state faces various challenges in Scandinavia and many European countries today, including a poor work environment in the public sector, a growing democracy deficit, and demographic obstacles. In this new book, Victor A. Pestoff argues that the state cannot resolve these challenges alone...