Civics category: 1212 books
Logged On
Smart Government Solutions from South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Logged On looks at mobile and smart phone technology through the lens of good government management. How will developing governments deliver goods and services that citizens care about? How will government in these countries leapfrog over traditional public management reforms to help reach out to and...
by Bruce Riley Ashford
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
What does it mean to be an American Christian?
In Letters to an American Christian, Bruce Riley Ashford, author of One Nation Under God, addresses overarching issues of the relationship of Christianity and politics, speaks to the way historic Christian belief informs specific hot-button...
by Sudha Pai
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya...
Legislature by Lot
Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class
The gap between the public and its representatives might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot examines an inspiring solution: a legislature...
The Citizen
Past and present
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Across the globe citizens are flexing their muscles, but they are also battling oppression and discrimination. What can history tell us about the state's duty to its citizens? As always, a good deal. This bold and timely new book brings political theorists and historians together to examine the role of, and need for, a critical, global and active civil society.
Making a Difference 2.0
The Ultimate Guide to Online Charitable Giving
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
The digital age has changed the way people contribute to worthy causes, with more and more donations coming from online sources. Making a Difference 2.0 serves as a bible for tech-savvy contributors and an essential starting block for beginners, explaining the ins and outs of online charity, how it...
Integration of Immigrants and the Theory of Recognition
'Just Integration'
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book approaches the issue of immigrant integration as a democratic justice problem. Based on Honneth’s recognition theory, it introduces the concept of ‘Just Integration’, which challenges the capacity of the actual recognition order of the host society to include its immigrants as full...
Som laics?
17 mirades a la laïcitat
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Us convidem a llegir aquestes pàgines amb una mirada crítica. Serà aquesta la millor contribució que podem fer perquè la laïcitat, com a principi, s'acabi imposant al reduccionisme del dogma i l'autoritarisme disfressat d'autoritat. Fa dos anys, la Fundació Ferrer i Guàrdia va presentar el...
by Peter Eglin
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
“Who has the right to know?” asks Jean-Francois Lyotard. “Who has the right to eat?” asks Peter Madaka Wanyama. This book asks: “what does it mean to be a responsible academic in a ‘northern’ university given the incarnate connections between the university’s operations and death and...
Deliberative Democracy
Understanding the Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Deliberative democracy can be seen as a part of the agenda of deepening democracy, wherein the public deliberation of citizens forms the basis of legitimate decision-making, with the people participating directly in the deliberations or making of decisions that affect them. Although political theorists...
Citizenship and Involvement in European Democracies
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
This unique study presents the results of a cross-national analysis of citizenship and participation among citizens in twelve European democracies.
Research on the future and quality of contemporary democracy is usually restricted to focus either on political participation, on particular aspects...
Autour de l'échafaud
Quand Démos est roi : Les foules révolutionnaires - Tape-dur et tricoteuses - Piques et bonnets rouges - La tyrannie prolétarienne
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Qu'est-ce que le peuple considéré comme classe ? Que désignait-on sous ce nom, au XVIIIe siècle, à la veille de la Révolution, et pendant la Révolution ? En quoi le Peuple se distinguait-il de la Noblesse, de la Bourgeoisie ? En quoi différait-il de la Populace ? Questions délicates...
Citizenship and Its Exclusions
A Classical, Constitutional, and Critical Race Critique
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Citizenship is generally viewed as the most desired legal status an individual can attain, invoking the belief that citizens hold full inclusion in a society, and can exercise and be protected by the Constitution. Yet this membership has historically been exclusive and illusive for many, and in Citizenship...
by Niamh Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Revolution and Rebellion in Mexican Film examines Mexican films of political conflict from the early studio Revolutionary films of the 1930-50s up to the campaigning Zapatista films of the 2000s. Mapping this evolution out for the first time, the author takes three key events under consideration:...