Civics and citizenship Books

ANTHONY LIVINGSTON HALL COMMENTS ON: Bush's legacy of support for Africa: "I was dismayed by the number of people who refused to believe that Bush had done more for Africa than any other US president; notwithstanding testimonials I proffered from...

Many nations recognize the moral and legal obligation to accept people fleeing from persecution, but political asylum applicants in the twenty-first century face restrictive policies and cumbersome procedures. So, what counts as...

What does it mean to be a citizen of a democracy today? This book challenges us to re- evaluate and ultimately reorient our state- based conception of democratic citizenship in order to meaningfully account for the context in which it is lived: a...

Decades of research in both political science and psychology have demonstrated that external, environmental factors influence individuals' mental processes, especially as they relate to politics. Inasmuch as such factors vary systematically across...

This book takes on the question "Who are the Macedonians?" Using three domains of evidence-historical documentation, cognitive self-descriptor reports, and sociocultural features-Damianopoulos demonstrates that the Macedonians are a unique, non-Slav,...

The question of 'recognition' motivates a range of contemporary social movements and forms the backdrop to legal and policy change, and theoretical and political debate. This timely book draws on original research to examine the meanings and significance...

Geir Hønneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world...

The attitudes of European citizens towards the EU and its institutions before and after their respective countries integration into the Eurozone is an exceptionally important yet entirely understudied topic. Mapping perceptions of Europeans towards the...

This ground breaking book provides empirical and theoretical insights into the interface between deliberative democracy and the rough and tumble of interest groups in advocacy politics. It examines how deliberative ideals work alongside the adversarial...

According to politics and the media, immigration and individualization drive citizens apart but in neighborhoods social life is often thriving, depending on the talents of particular citizens or of local institutions. This book examines new forms of...

Investigates the World Bank's promotion of market-led development in the underdeveloped world and the impact that this promotion has upon citizenship. This book looks at this subject using case studies drawn from Southeast Asia, one of the world's most...

The question of conflict in Islam has now for sometime been interpreted in the Western diplomatic circles through the violent actions of fundamentalist groups and amongst many academics through a jurisprudential outlook. This work, however, views war and...

The UK is going through a period of unprecedented constitutional change. There is much unfinished business, and further changes still to come. Where are these changes taking us? In this book, leading political scientists and lawyers forecast the impact...

This book examines the Labour Party's approach to constitutional reforms in historical context, and how these have been pursued more to 'modernize' political institutions, rather that radically transform them. Dorey explains the reasons for this...

Three decades of authoritarian rule in Indonesia came to a sudden end in 1998. The collapse of the Soeharto regime was accompanied by massive economic decline, widespread rioting, communal conflict, and fears that the nation was approaching the brink of...

Il est encore de bon ton, en 1925, de parler de l'aveuglement des pacifistes. Le Prologue d'avant-guerre, qui ouvre ce livre, montrera dans le détail une pensée qui cherchait la paix, indiquait les moyens de garder la paix, et montrait comment la...

Ce livre vaut un trésor et il serait à désirer que les caractères dont on l'imprimera fussent d'argent. Lettre du feu R. P. Mersenne à M. Sorbière d'Orléans... le 25 d'avril 1646. Si la physique est une chose toute nouvelle, la philosophie politique...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Moderne Geschichte, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Historisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Mythen und Bilder der türkischen Nation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Politik, politische Bildung, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Politikwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Deutsche Jugendliche haben im internationalen Vergleich ein...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Politik, politische Bildung, Note: 1,3, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach dem Ende des Krieges wurden in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone (SBZ) bzw. der...

The author discusses to what extent a generally binding norm of social justice can be established in a modern, plural society. Though the principles of social justice and their sources of normativity are plural, they are interdependent. It is their...

The author applies international relations theory to frame Kyrgyzstan's identity crisis: The ruling elite has to manage tensions between their strong dependency on Russia as main donor and security provider and domestic challenges in their pursuit of a...

The fifth CEE Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook addresses two major topics: law and state. In particular, it tackles the following issues: law and logic, emergence of the modern state, methodological approaches to legal theory,...

This book provides a comprehensive view of the current state of affairs and possible developments in EU education law and policy.

On January 6th, 2021, the vice president of the most powerful country in the world hid in a parking garage surrounded by his security detail while thousands of protestors, some with homemade guillotines with his name on them, entered the U.S. Capitol...

Social capital arising from social networks based on trust has been traditionally seen as the property of adults from which the younger generation gain benefit. Far less attention has been given to the production of social capital among young people...

This book reveals the overall connection between American holidays, history, culture, and patriotism. Color illustrated chapters present an interesting home-spun account of the holiday's unique history and its ties to America's social and cultural...

Did you know that the framers of our US Constitution did not believe that a Bill of Rights was necessary? That instead of a Bill of Rights, the framers believed, simply, that the limitations contained in the US Constitution would adequately limit the...

The name of this book has given an adjective to our language -- we call an impracticable scheme Utopian. Yet, under the veil of a playful fiction, the talk is intensely earnest and abounds in practical suggestion. It is the work of a scholarly and witty...

The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking...

Explores how the emotional experience of gratitude has been enlisted in neoliberal governance through the language of debt.

In this powerful speech, Gilder argues that the truest form of patriotism is civic patriotism, which emphasizes the importance of individual action and responsibility in creating a just and prosperous society.This work has been selected by scholars as...

Dieses Werk bietet eine detaillierte Analyse des Widerstands, der Empörung und der Zwangsübung, die Staatsbürger gegen die bestehende Staatsgewalt ausüben. Murhard stellt eine allgemeine Revision der Lehren und Meinungen über diesen Gegenstand vor und...

Originally published in 1923, Citizenship is a comprehensive exploration of what it means to be a citizen, the privileges that come with that status, and the obligations that citizens have to their government and each other. Author Frederick Robert Worts...

Without exception, everyone is called upon today to construct his/her patriotic identity as a response to the supreme imperative of our shared whiteness: 'act as if the land were initially without owners'. For white Australia, this imperative is more...

Ernesto Laclau has blazed a unique trail in political theory and philosophy since the early 1970s. In so doing, he has articulated a range of philosophical and theoretical currents into a coherent alternative to mainstream models and practices of...

This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of...

The Fight for China's Future throws light on the quintessence of 21st century Chinese politics through the prism of the struggle between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and China's vibrant intelligentsia and civil society. This book examines Xi...

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. In response to evidence of this decline in democracy, a growing number of philosophers and political practitioners have advocated a more deliberative form of democracy...

Most Western democracies established women's policy agencies to improve the status of women by the 1990s. However, the political context has changed drastically: developments such as welfare state reform, multilevel governance, regionalization and...