Civics category: 1212 books
Le lobbying en France
Invention et normalisation dune pratique politique
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Cet ouvrage, résultat de quinze années d’enquêtes, aborde aussi bien la formation des lobbyistes que les scandales médiatisés. Il souhaite, en cinq temps, dépassionner le débat en apportant des réponses aux questions que se posent les journalistes, les hommes politiques ou les citoyens :...
by David Suzuki
Language: French
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Un texte très personnel de David Suzuki, le grand environnementaliste canadien-anglais.
by Jens Bartelson
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus operandi of the international system as a whole.
Although...
Reviving the Social Compact
Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Naomi Zack’s *Reviving the Social Compact:*Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics addresses current political and social upheaval and distress with new concepts for the relationship between citizens and government. Politics has become turbo-charged as a form of agonistic contest where...
by Philip Resnick
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
What exactly does it mean to be North American? Europeans have been engaged in a long-running debate about the meaning and nature of Europe. The Labyrinth of North American Identities generates a similar discussion in the context of North America: what do we learn about North America as a unit and...
American Immigration After 1996
The Shifting Ground of Political Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker programs and focusing on the economic benefits of immigration, and the other proposing greater physical...
Generations
Rethinking Age and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The meaning of citizenship and the way that it is expressed by an individual varies with age, develops over time, and is often learned by interacting with members of other generations. In Generations: Rethinking Age and Citizenship, editor Richard Marback presents contributions that explore this temporal...
First Person Political
Legislative Life and the Meaning of Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
In First Person Political, Grant Reeher combats the public's alienation from and distrust of politicians by putting a personal face on everyday political life. Through moving personal interviews, Reeher allows legislators to tell their own stories about how and why they came to politics, the experience...
Become America
Civic Sermons on Love, Responsibility, and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
What does it mean to be an engaged American in today’s divided political landscape, and how do we restore hope in our country? In a collection of “civic sermons” delivered at gatherings around the nation, popular advocate for active citizenship Eric Liu takes on these thorny questions and provides...
by Paul Progen
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
A concept of recognizing the citizens collected virtue of positive potential and ascertaining a material value, a "Citizen's Value", from that potential. Then utilizing, as a constitutional right, the transference of that material value as influence applied to representation. Explaining...
Citizenship in the Western Tradition
Plato to Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution. It is striking to observe the persistence of important civic ideals and institutions over a period of 2,500 years and to learn how...
Il Consigliere Comunale
Candidatura – Svolgimento mandato - Cessazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Guida Pratica da porre a disposizione di tutti coloro che ricoprono, ovvero hanno intenzione di ricoprire, la gravosa attività di amministratore locale, alla luce dei Decreti Legislativi 31 dicembre 2012 n. 235 (G.U. n. 3 del 4.1.2013) e 8 aprile 2013 n. 39 (G.U. n. 92 del 19.4.2013), che hanno riscritto...
Outright Barbarous
How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
“Outright Barbarous turns the spotlight on the rhetorical thuggery of the Right, exposing how the verbal excesses are being perpetrated not just by media blowhards like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh but by conservative thought leaders. But Feldman does more than point fingers; he offers practical...
by Benjamin Constant
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Comment définir la Liberté ? Quel est son rapport avec la Démocratie, et quel est le rôle que peuvent et doivent jouer les citoyens à cet égard ? Benjamin Constant, dans ce discours resté célèbre, nous interroge sur des sujets qui restent d'une actualité criante.