Civics and citizenship Books

Social structure may historically have been of primary importance in accounting for the attitudes and behaviour of many citizens, but now changes in social structure have diminished the role played by class and religious affiliation, whilst the...

The book explores the current role of nationality from the point of view of international law, reassessing the validity of the 'classical', state-centered, approach to nationality in light of the 'new' role the human being is gradually acquiring within...

Towards a New Nigeria begins by framing the systemic challenges in Nigeria. In the book, Obinna Izeogu lays out the nine essential problems Nigeria faces. They are poverty, the economy, gender equality, a poor standard of education, unemployment, health...

Vier Jahre nach Verabschiedung der ersten Stufe der Föderalismusreform ist es Zeit für eine erste Bilanz: Sind die angestrebten Ziele der Entflechtung von Kompetenzen und der Verringerung des Blockadepotenzials des Bundesrates...

Der Föderalismus steht seit längerem in der Kritik von Wissenschaftlern, Politikern und interessierten Bürgern. Er wird gleichermaßen für Ineffizienz und politischen Stillstand in Deutschland verantwortlich gemacht. Mit der von...

Beginning with an overview of the Framers' debates over the construction and duties of the office, the work explores the three primary charges of the office (administrator, military commander, diplomat), the legal and constitutional perimeters of the...

""Dello Ordinamento Nazionale"" ����� un saggio storico-politico scritto da Giuseppe Montanelli nel 1862. Il libro analizza l'ordinamento nazionale italiano, ovvero il sistema politico e amministrativo del Regno d'Italia del XIX secolo. Montanelli...

Christians in the Middle East have come under increasing pressure in recent years with the rise of radical Islam. Nowhere is this truer than in Egypt, where the large Coptic Christian community has traditionally played an important role in the country's...

Where is Egypt headed? Did the people 'bring down the government,' as the thousands of demonstrators in Tahrir Square claimed in January 2011? What has taken place since the fall of the Mubarak regime the following month? Why was political Islam,...

Shifting to an online world has drastically changed political communication. From producers of news and the consumers receiving it, from how campaigns communicate with voters to how elected officials connect with constituents, technology has disrupted...

This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years. The book analyzes how civil society organizations contributed to an agenda which has implications for the...

Reintegration programmes for ex-combatants are supposed to support the wider peace process. This study, based on detailed fieldwork, looks at the way they were carried out in Sierra Leone and Liberia and assesses the degree to which they were conducted...

This cross-disciplinary edited collection presents an integrated approach to critical diversity studies by gathering original scholarly research on ideational, technical and actual social dimensions of contemporary governance through diversity.

The accommodation of Islam in European societies has received a great deal of negative publicity, especially since Al-Qaeda terrorism became increasingly perceived as a 'home grown' issue in Europe. In addition to heightened surveillance and policing,...

A distinctive contribution to the politics of citizenship and immigration in an expanding European Union, this book explains how and why differences arise in responses to immigration by examining local, national and transnational dimensions of public...

This unique book provides a critical perspective on identity in questioning how Israeli Jews manage and manifest their concern for the Palestinian Other, eschewing presenting identities as concrete and, rather, examines their creation through...

Today a quarter of all Chinese claim a major religious tradition, yet the state remains deeply concerned about religious activity. The West tends to view religion-and-state relations in China in bipolar terms: dissidents' resistance and government...

The Little Rock Crisis describes the power of direct and learned memories of the 1957 desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas. Personal, dramatic experiences of Little Rockians - known and unknown - reflect on the impact of the crisis on their...

Migrant Citizenship from Below explores the dynamic local and transnational lives of Filipina and Filipino migrant domestic workers living in Schonberg, Germany. Shinozaki examines their irregular migrant citizenship status from 'above', which is...

This book sets out to answer what appears to be a deceptively simple question: how do poor and marginalized citizens engage the state in the global South? Drawing on twelve case studies from the global South, this book explore the politics of 'mediated...

Individuals have little incentive to vote, acquire political information or contribute campaign funds, because their vote has very little chance of affecting the outcome of an election. Jankowski offers an explanation and evidence for political...

The topic of US immigration law provokes passionate conversations. This book engages directly with these pressing debates and begins with a straightforward question: How has contemporary American theatre presented so-called undocumented immigrants?...

This book examines the nature of representation in democracy, focusing on constituent evaluations of Congress members and the implications these results have on citizens' influence on government. This analysis elaborates on the complex relationship...

Drawing on in-depth elite interviews and documents, The Formation of Civil Society in Modern Iran investigates how and why the Iranian reformists used the language and concept of civil society to enhance the reformists' positions of power. Author Melody...

The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse. Despite its expanding influence, however, there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a...

In a time that looms around the corner of today, in a place on the edge of our nation, it is a crime to dissent, a crime to assemble, a crime to stand up for one's life. Despite all this - or perhaps because of it - the Dandelion Insurrection appears...

Nigeria is currently experiencing a complexity of problems. Of particular importance among these are variegated conflicts that have made peace and security very elusive in the country. In almost all of the the six zones making up the country there have...

Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Didaktik - Politik, politische Bildung, Note: 14 Punkte, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Einführung in die politische Bildung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das...

The 21st century is on the verge of a possible total economic and political revolution. Technological advances in robotics, computing and digital communications have the potential to completely transform how people live and work. Even more radically,...

This book provides a critique of the way in which European citizenship is imagined and practiced. Setting their analysis in its full historical context, the authors challenge preconceived ideas about European citizenship on the basis of a detailed...

This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes. It explores how states develop new rules of joining their community in response to globalisation and highlights the tension between...

​This book discusses the issues of citizen rights, governance and political crisis in Brazil. The project has a focus on "citizenship in times of crisis," i.e., seeking to understand how citizenship rights have changed since the Brazilian political and...

This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of...

"This fine team of academics moves beyond mere descriptions of capacities, structures and processes to explain the effectiveness of Civil Protection in the EU. With their exploration of trust as a key factor, they deliver the best book so far on this...

The Tucson Tragedy: Lessons from the Senseless Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords -by John Newport, Ph.D.This is a fast reading, riveting book that portrays the human side of the January 8, 2011 shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others -...

Das Buch ""Beitr�����ge zur Verwaltungsgeschichte des R������mischen Kaiserreichs V1"" von Wilhelm Liebenam wurde im Jahr 1886 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Studie zur Verwaltungsgeschichte des R������mischen Kaiserreichs. Das...

""Beitr�����ge zur Geschichte des Wormser Reichstages 1544 und 1545"" ist ein historisches Buch von Jaroslav Springer, das im Jahr 1882 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit den Ereignissen und Entscheidungen des Reichstages in Worms im...

A comprehensive guide for American citizens, covering topics such as government structure, voting, and civic responsibility.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we...

This book offers a thought-provoking discussion on citizenship and its evolution within modern society. The author argues that citizenship is an ongoing process that is shaped by social, political, and economic factors. Through an examination of...

This book critically examines gender-based violence in India and interrogates the legal and policy discourse surrounding it. It discusses various forms of violence faced by women such as sex selective abortion, trafficking, rape, domestic violence, as...

Focusing on the case of disability, this book examines what happens when previously marginalised individuals obtain the legal recognition of their equal citizenship rights but cannot fully enjoy these rights because of structural inequality. Bringing...

This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This...

This book provides readers with a fresh analysis of the Arab state by using a new theoretical framework: hybrid sovereignty. Hybrid sovereignty is used as an analytical tool to explain the survival of traditional patterns and forms of authority within...

In recent years, scholarly attention has shifted away from debates on ethnicity to focus on issues of migration and citizenship. Inspired, in part, by earlier studies on European guestworker migration, these debates are fed by the new "transnational...