Civics category: 1212 books
The Vanishing Voter
Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote.
Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voterinvestigates why—despite...
Citizen Ninja
Stand Up to Power
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
CITIZEN NINJA stand up to power in pursuit of freedom, truth, and justice. Citizen Ninjas speak up; they don’t wait for others to speak for them. Citizen Ninjas are prepared, discerning, self-reliant and assertive. They step out of their comfort zone to nimbly challenge powerful entities that disenfranchise...
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The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In the very near future, smart” technologies and big data” will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right...
by Mario A. Rivera, James D. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Institutional racism may be described as a self-perpetuating and opaque process where, either intentionally or unintentionally, barriers and procedures which disadvantage ethnic minority groups are supported and maintained. It is often the direct linkage and thus the underlying cause for the lack...
by Daren C. Brabham
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media. Crowdsourcing works to generate new ideas or develop innovative solutions to problems...
by Susan Mori
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
This book will teach you:
• What the Zen philosophy is about, it's history, and how to embody Zen daily, even in mundane situations, for a happier and more peaceful life
• How Zen can help you improve both friendly and romantic relationships through understanding yourself...
Breaking Through Gridlock
The Power of Conversation in a Polarized World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Think about the last time you tried to talk with someone who didn't already agree with you about issues that matter most. How well did it go?
These conversations are vital, but too often get stuck. They become contentious or we avoid them because we fear they might. What if, in these difficult...
Protests as Events
Politics, Activism and Leisure
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Can activism be considered a leisure activity? Can the Occupy movement, local campaigns for change and lone acts of personal resistance be understood as events?
Within the field of Events Management the content of events is generally analyzed within three categories—culture, sport or business....
Social Entrepreneurship and Citizenship in China
The rise of NGOs in the PRC
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Over the last thirty years, social entrepreneurship has boomed in the People’s Republic of China. Today there are hundreds of thousands of legally registered NGOs, and millions more unregistered, working in the areas of the environment, education, women’s issues, disability services, community...
The Economics of Immigration
Market-Based Approaches, Social Science, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The Economics of Immigration summarizes the best social science studying the actual impact of immigration, which is found to be at odds with popular fears. Greater flows of immigration have the potential to substantially increase world income and reduce extreme poverty. Existing evidence indicates...
News on the Internet
Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Online news sites play an ever-pervasive role in the daily gathering and flow of political information. Media has always played an intermediary role in the way that citizens receive and process news, but, with the speed of information transmission, the segmentation of news sources, and the rise of...
Lobbying for Change
Find Your Voice to Create a Better Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
'We need effective citizen-lobbyists – not just likers, followers or even marchers – more than ever. I have no hesitation in lobbying you to read this book.'
Bill Emmott, former editor in chief, the Economist
Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making...
Democratic Professionalism
Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2008
Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic...
Our Media, Not Theirs
The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Our Media, Not Theirs! The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media examines how the current media system in the United States undermines democracy, and what we can do to change it. McChesney and Nichols begin by detailing how the media system has come to be dominated by a handful of transnational...