Civics category: 1212 books
Speaking with the People's Voice
How Presidents Invoke Public Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The role of public opinion in American democracy has been a central concern of scholars who frequently examine how public opinion influences policy makers and how politicians, especially presidents, try to shape public opinion. But in Speaking with the People’s Voice: How Presidents Invoke Public...
E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet
Power, Influence, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Technological advancements have always influenced politics in society, but never in as strong and direct a manner as in the Internet Age. E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence, and Social Change charts this influence and describes the unique effect electronic communication...
by Carol Soon, Gillian Koh
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Set within the context of growing political pluralism and the increasing use of new communication technologies for social mobilisation, the Institute of Policy Studies organised a national conference on civil society in November 2013. This collection of the essays that were presented at or inspired...
The Magic Kingdom
Property, Monarchy, and the Maximum Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Anyone who knows anything about Britain knows that it is a democracy and a constitutional monarchy. The trouble is, it is neither. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is one of the most exotic nations on earth. In the republican form of government a defined public exercise sovereign...
Ethnicity and Religion
Intersections and Comparisons
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and ethnicity...
Healing the Heart of Democracy
The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions
In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the common good and gives us the tools to do it. This timely, courageous and practical work—intensely personal as well as political—is not about them,...
by S.K. Das
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Today, India is one of the leading players on the global stage. It is competing with other countries not just in the marketplace but also in respect of its governance structures. This book underscores the need for creating a modern civil service, which epitomizes best practices overseas and in the...
by Jon Oleson
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Jon Oleson recommends that Americans give careful thought to the legacy our kids are receiving as they grow up in the United States. Will they grow up contributing to the highly partisan and polarized environment we now experience? Or will they grow up modeling themselves after those who work together...
Italia.zip
Test di comprensione e compressione del Belpaese
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Due amici, un giudice e un giornalista, che risiedono a mille chilometri di distanza, l’uno al sud e l’altro al nord, si confrontano sulle rispettive realtà e sul futuro dell’Italia. Ne nasce un libro che in parte è saggio, in parte è dialogo e confronto profondo tra due persone che, attraverso...
Sovereign Bodies
Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally....
Dynamics of Transformation, Elite Change and New Social Mobilization
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The political transformations initiated by the so-called Arab Spring in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen have been marked by strong political contention, continued social mobilization and, albeit to different degrees, weak central state institutions. This book proposes that, rather than agreed roadmaps...
by Alan Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2003
American Political Process examines both the formal institutions of government and organizations such as political parties and pressure groups. It analyzes how these bodies interact in the making of public policy in the United States in order to provide an understanding of contemporary American politics....
by 劉炯朗
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Language: Chinese
Release Date: February 12, 2016
我們追求的是個人利益，還是社會正義？ 應該為了賺錢而做好事，還是為了做好事而賺錢？ 關於人生，關於人際，關於生涯，關於生死……你做好準備了嗎？ 關於社會責任，關於人我分際，關於金錢，關於企業……你真的瞭解了嗎？...
by Curtis Patrick
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Behind-the-scenes anecdotes and first-person recollections from forty-nine diverse people illuminate their personal relationships with Ronald Reagan.
What was Ronald Reagan like in private? How did he treat his children? How did he handle pressure? This collection of intimate remembrances of...