Civics category: 1212 books
La Batalla Por el Paraíso
Puerto Rico y el Capitalismo Del Desastre
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Entre los escombros del huracán Maria, los puertorriqueños y los “Puertopians” ultra-ricos están atrapados en una batalla campal sobre cómo reconstruir la isla. En esta vital y asombrosa investigación, la autora de best-sellers y activista Naomi Klein, revela cómo las fuerzas de las políticas...
by Venelin Tsachevsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
The book analyses the historical evolution and modern features of Switzerland’s political system and neutrality of state, termed by the author as the Swiss model. The model is based on the principles of democracy, but at the same time possesses a specific texture. It is a result of the strongly...
Globalizing Citizens
New Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Globalization has given rise to new meanings of citizenship. Just as they are tied together by global production, trade and finance, citizens in every nation are linked by the institutions of global governance, bringing new dynamics of inclusion and exclusion. For some, globalization provides a sense...
by Jaroslaw Szymanek
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book discusses political representation both as a political idea and a principle of law. Representation was a topic of political debates throughout the 19th and 20th century and the debate has intensified with today’s so-called «crisis of representation». The issue always relates to the political...
The Illusion of Public Opinion
Fact and Artifact in American Public Opinion Polls
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2004
In a rigorous critique of public opinion polling in the United States, George F. Bishop makes the case that a lot of what passes as 'public opinion' in mass media today is an illusion, an artifact of measurement created by vague or misleading survey questions presented to respondents who typically...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
This book provides an in depth analysis of the challenging relationship between Europe and Islam. The general chapters on secularism, security, identity and solidarity show the challenge of promoting a stable multi-cultural society. In depth analysis of France, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands, and...
by Shveta Dhaliwal
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Shveta Dhaliwal teaches at the Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab, Patiala, India. Her areas of specialisation are geopolitics, regional human rights systems, comparative political thought and international relations. She has published more than 40 research papers and presented over 150...
The Resistance
The Dawn of the Anti-Trump Opposition Movement
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Even before the 2016 presidential election took place, groups and individuals angry at Donald Trump, and frightened about what a Trump presidency could mean, were taking to the streets. After the election, and particularly after he inaugural, the protests continued. Over time, the Resistance was joined...
The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia
Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The viability of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has always been a bone of contention in socially and politically plural South Asia. It is entangled within the polemics of identity politics, minority rights, women’s rights, national integration, uniform citizenry and, of late, global Islamic politics...
by Christy Buchanan, Katy Harriger, Jill McMillan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This report is a follow-up to Harriger and McMillan's Speaking of Politics: Preparing College Students for Democratic Citizenship through Deliberative Dialogue (Kettering Foundation Press, 2007). That book described a four-year study at Wake Forest University in which students, called Democracy Fellows,...
Young People and Active Citizenship in Post-Soviet Times
A Challenge for Citizenship Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Situated within the context of "post-soviet times", this book explores young people’s citizenship activities and values in three distinct environments: post-soviet union countries, post-soviet union satellites, and countries that were independent of the soviet-union. Its purpose is to...
Environment and Citizenship in Latin America
Natures, Subjects and Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Scholarship related to environmental questions in Latin America has only recently begun to coalesce around citizenship as both an empirical site of inquiry and an analytical frame of reference. This has led to a series of new insights and perspectives, but few efforts have been made to bring these...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Contesting Spain? The Dynamics of Nationalist Movements in Catalonia and the Basque Country offers an exploration of the dynamics behind contemporary shifts in the orientation of nationalist parties and movements with reference to Catalonia and the Basque country in Spain. The chapters were originally...
Researching War
Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Researching War provides a unique overview of varied feminist contributions to the study of war through case studies from around the world. Written by well-respected scholars, each chapter explicitly showcases the role of feminist methodological, ethical and political commitments in the research process.
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