Civics category: 1212 books
Acting Like a State
Kosovo and the Everyday Making of Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
How do emerging states obtain international recognition and secure membership of international organisations in contemporary world politics? This book provides the first in-depth study of Kosovo’s diplomatic approach to becoming a sovereign state by obtaining international recognition and securing...
Direct Democracy in the Baltic States
Institutions, Procedures and Practice in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Over the last decades, provisions for direct democracy have increasingly been added to new constitutions around the world, including in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Using a comparative legal approach, this book identifies a large set of direct democratic instruments in the Baltics...
Immigration Reform
We Can Do It, If We Apply Our Founders' True Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Immigration Reform is an in-depth discussion of immigration reform in America. The author demystifies this polarizing subject by posing questions about the ethical and political quandaries still presented by race and ethnicity after two and a half centuries of American independence. The book highlights...
Higher Education beyond Job Creation
Universities, Citizenship, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security...
Loving and Leaving Washington
Reflections on Public Service
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
John Yochelson was seventeen when he first heard President Kennedy’s call, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Responding to the call to public service, he had a front-row seat from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s, when the power game in Washington...
Evaluating Democratic Innovations
Curing the Democratic Malaise?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working and quality of democracy as well as increasing citizens’ political awareness and understanding of political matters.
This text is the most comprehensive...
Civic Engagement and Politics
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2019
Creating transparency between government and citizens through outreach and engagement initiatives is critical to promoting community development and is also an essential part of a democratic society. This can be achieved through a number of methods including public policy, urban development, artistic...
Contemporary Youth Activism: Advancing Social Justice in the United States
Advancing Social Justice in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
At a time when youth are too often dismissed as either empowered consumers or disempowered deviants, it is vital to understand how these young people are pushing back, challenging such constructions, and advancing new possibilities for their institutions and themselves. This book examines the latest...
by Karen Bojar
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
• As a longtime Democratic Party committeeperson and progressive activist, the author is well positioned to write an analysis of grassroots politics. • The Democratic Party’s National Convention is to be held in Philadelphia in 2016. This will spark national interest in the local Democratic...
The Uprising of Man
A Proposal
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
The Uprising of Man aims to offer to men what feminism - in its most balanced, egalitarian, courageous essence - offered, and continues to offer, to women all over the world: empowerment, unity and dignity.
It holds up a mirror to male socialisation - to how we as men have been ‘masculinised’...
by Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This book is the first monograph to systematically explore the relationship between citizenship and collective identity in the European Union, integrating two fields of research – citizenship and collective identity.
Karolewski argues that various types of citizenship correlate with differing...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Many contemporary states, even the European ones, resemble a giant with feet of clay. They tend to be greater in terms of the scope of governance, rather than in terms of their territory or population. Since they are great, they are also costly, though often very limited in various respects. One perilous...
Shaping Citizenship
A Political Concept in Theory, Debate and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Citizenship is a core concept for the social sciences, and citizenship is also frequently interpreted, challenged and contested in different political arenas. Shaping Citizenship explores how the concept is debated and contested, defined and redefined, used and constructed by different agents, at...
Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech
The Revival of Citizen Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In a time when citizens are deeply dissatisfied with the basic institutions and elected officials that govern them, the participatory budgeting movement empowers citizens to get results for pressing community needs. It creates a transparent process where citizens can propose projects through traditional...