Civics category: 1212 books
by Larry Diamond
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book evaluates the global status and prospects of democracy, with an emphasis on the quality of democratic institutions and the effectiveness of governance as key conditions for stable democracy. Bringing together a wide range of the author’s work over the past three decades, it advances a...
The Not-So-Special Interests
Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
"Lobbyist" tends to be used as a dirty word in politics. Indeed, during the 2008 presidential primary campaign, Hillary Clinton was derided for even suggesting that some lobbyists represent "real Americans." But although many popular commentators position interest groups as representatives...
Plurality and Citizenship in Israel
Moving Beyond the Jewish/Palestinian Civil Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Israel's political process is too often framed in terms of a dichotomy between Jewish and Arab/Palestinian citizens of the state, a framing which perpetuates political inequality and consequent injustices. This book focuses on the conflict within Israel and the role played by modern states in either...
Sustaining Civil Society
Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
“South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust.” This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition...
How to Raise an American Patriot
Making it Okay for Our Kids to Be Proud to Be American
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
In recent years, it has become fashionable to bash the United States, to discuss how destructive we have been as a nation and to deny this country of its founding principles. Most Americans simply do not agree with that. They believe we are an exceptional, God-blessed country and we must stand up...
Love Your Enemies
How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Now a National Bestseller.
To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against American,...
by Uddhab P. Pyakurel
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Nepal, a South Asian Himalayan country, has been of late suffering from a crisis of Maoist insurgency. It began with simultaneous raids on government offices, police posts and private businesses by the Maoist in the name of the Peoples War on February 13, 1996.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Open government initiatives have become a defining goal for public administrators around the world. However, progress is still necessary outside of the executive and legislative sectors. Achieving Open Justice through Citizen Participation and Transparency is a pivotal reference source for the latest...
by Dipankar Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the exclusionary informational dynamics in democracy and analyses the role of information capitalism, new technology, virtual networks, cyberspace and media.
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by Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Mageza-Barthel provides a context sensitive analysis of how Rwanda's women's movement used the United Nations (UN) gender norms in its efforts to insert gender-specific demands in the post-genocide period. The overall goal of these women - and their supporters - has been to further gender equality...
The Longings and Limits of Global Citizenship Education
The Moral Pedagogy of Schooling in a Cosmopolitan Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
As the world seemingly gets smaller and smaller, schools around the globe are focusing their attention on expanding the consciousness and competencies of their students to prepare them for the conditions of globalization. Global citizenship education is rapidly growing in popularity because it captures...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book...
Red, White and Latina
Our American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
The very diversity that America was founded on now seems to be turning on itself. Instead of seeing our individual differences as a source of national strength, we’re dispatching them as daggers in our American identity. America is steadily splitting along political, gender, color and cultural lines,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book is concerned with the social and political aspects of regional groupings, particularly how citizenship education fares in regional contexts. The European Union (EU) has revolutionised its political and economic aims into more encompassing social and political goals. The Association of Southeast...