Citizens And The State

Author : Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198279556

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Fears that representative democracy in western Europe is in crisis are examined on the basis of trends in mass attitudes over the past two or three decades. The evidence suggests not crisis but a changing relationship between citizens and the state. This change poses a democratic transformation in the countries of Western Europe.Series DescriptionThis set of five volumes is an exhaustive study of beliefs in government in post-war Europe. Based upon an extensive collection of survey evidence, the results challenge widely argued theories of mass opinion, and much scholarly writing about citizen attitudes towards government and politics.The series arises from a research project sponsored by the European Science FoundationSeries ISBN: 0-19-961880-1

Author : Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191521010

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Citizens and the State by Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs Pdf

Fears that representative democracy in western Europe is in crisis are examined on the basis of trends in mass attitudes over the past two or three decades. The evidence suggests not crisis but a changing relationship between citizens and the state. This change poses a democratic transformation in the countries of Western Europe. Series Description This set of five volumes is an exhaustive study of beliefs in government in post-war Europe. Based upon an extensive collection of survey evidence, the results challenge widely argued theories of mass opinion, and much scholarly writing about citizen attitudes towards government and politics. The series arises from a research project sponsored by the European Science Foundation Series ISBN: 0-19-961880-1

Author : Christopher P. Loss
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780691148274

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Between Citizens and the State by Christopher P. Loss Pdf

This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political history of the United States in the twentieth century, and chronicles its transformation into a key mediating institution between citizens and the state. Framed around the three major federal higher education policies of the twentieth century--the 1944 GI Bill, the 1958 National Defense Education Act, and the 1965 Higher Education Act--the book charts the federal government's various efforts to deploy education to ready citizens for the national, bureaucratized, and increasingly global world in which they lived. Loss details the myriad ways in which academic leaders and students shaped, and were shaped by, the state's shifting political agenda as it moved from a preoccupation with economic security during the Great Depression, to national security during World War II and the Cold War, to securing the rights of African Americans, women, and other previously marginalized groups during the 1960s and '70s. Along the way, Loss reappraises the origins of higher education's current-day diversity regime, the growth of identity group politics, and the privatization of citizenship at the close of the twentieth century. At a time when people's faith in government and higher education is being sorely tested, this book sheds new light on the close relations between American higher education and politics.

Author : Takashi Inoguchi,Jean Blondel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0415599423

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Citizens and the State by Takashi Inoguchi,Jean Blondel Pdf

This book analyzes the relationship between citizens and the state from a primarily bottom up perspective via factor analysis of data from the eighteen country cross-national Asia-Europe survey including identity, confidence and satisfaction.

Author : Charlotte Lemanski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351176132

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Citizenship and Infrastructure by Charlotte Lemanski Pdf

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship. It demonstrates the ways in which adopting an ‘infrastructural citizenship’ lens illuminates a broader understanding of the material and civic nature of urban life for both citizens and the state. Drawing on examples of housing, water, electricity and sanitation across Africa and Asia, chapters reveal the ways in which exploring citizenship through an infrastructural lens, and infrastructure through a citizenship lens, allows us to better understand, plan and govern city life. The book emphasises the importance of acknowledging and understanding the dialectic relationship between infrastructure and citizenship for urban theory and practice. This book will be a useful resource for researchers and students within Urban Studies, Geography, Development Studies, Planning, Politics, Architecture and Sociology.

Author : Alan C. Cairns
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774841351

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Citizens Plus by Alan C. Cairns Pdf

In Citizens Plus, Alan Cairns unravels the historical record to clarify the current impasse in negotiations between Aboriginal peoples and the state. He considers the assimilationist policy assumptions of the imperial era, examines more recent government initiatives, and analyzes the emergence of the nation-to-nation paradigm given massive support by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. We are battered by contending visions, he argues - a revised assimilation policy that finds its support in the Canadian Alliance Party is countered by the nation-to-nation vision, which frames our future as coexisting solitudes. Citizens Plus stakes out a middle ground with its support for constitutional and institutional arrangements which will simultaneously recognize Aboriginal difference and reinforce a solidarity which binds us together in common citizenship. Selected as a BC Book for Everybody

Author : Avia Pasternak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197541050

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Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States by Avia Pasternak Pdf

States are often held responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, as did Iraq in the aftermath of its invasion of Kuwait. States pay reparations for their historical wrongdoings, as did Chile to the victims of the Pinochet Regime, or Germany to Israel and other countries because of the Holocaust. Some argue that they should pay punitive damages for their international crimes as well. But state responsibility has a troubling feature: states are corporate agents, comprising flesh and blood citizens. When they turn to the public purse to finance their corporate liabilities, it is their citizens who pay the price. Even citizens who protested against their state's policies, did not know about them, or had no influence on policy makers end up sharing the burden. Why should these citizens pay for their state's wrongdoings, if they don't carry the blame? Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States develops a fresh justification for citizens' duties to share the burden of their state's wrongdoings. This justification revolves around citizens' participation in their state: drawing on recent debates in the philosophy of collective action, Avia Pasternak shows that citizens are acting together in their state and that their state policies are the product of this collective action. Given this participation, citizens ought to share the burden of remedying harmful wrongs their state policies bring about. However, she also argues that not all citizens in all states are participating in their state. In many authoritarian states, citizens' participation in the state is highly restricted or coerced. Here, ordinary citizens do not share responsibility for their state policies and should not be forced to pay for them. These conclusions carry significant real-world implications for the way domestic international law holds various types of states, and their citizens, responsible for their wrongdoings. This work is essential for political theorists and philosophers grappling with citizen responsibility and duty.

Author : Beth Simone Noveck
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674915459

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Smart Citizens, Smarter State by Beth Simone Noveck Pdf

Governments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. She offers a vision of participatory democracy rooted not in voting or crowdsourcing but in people’s knowledge and know-how.

Author : Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107199750

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Claiming the State by Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner Pdf

Explores the conditions that shape whether and how citizens in rural India make claims on the state for social welfare.

Author : John Hoffman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412932448

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Citizenship Beyond the State by John Hoffman Pdf

Is ′citizenship′ still a useful concept? Can citizens - and democracy - exist independently of the state? This text provides an accessible guide to the theories and debates that surround the key political concepts of state, citizenship, and democracy today. John Hoffman reviews the modern development of these concepts from the classic texts of Marx and Weber to the post-war critiques of the feminist, multicultural and critical theorists and considers the on-going barriers to a full realisation of a democratic citizenship. By carefully considering what the state is and what it does, Hoffman shows that it is possible to respond to these critiques and challenges and ′reclaim′ citizenship and democracy as inclusive and emancipatory, rather than divisive and controlling. In advancing this alternative view of a ′stateless′ citizenship, Hoffman opens up new possibilities for conceiving power and society in contemporary politics today. It will be essential reading for all students of politics and sociology for whom the questions of state, nationality, power and identity remain of central importance.

Author : U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0160831180

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Learn about the United States by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Pdf

"Learn About the United States" is intended to help permanent residents gain a deeper understanding of U.S. history and government as they prepare to become citizens. The product presents 96 short lessons, based on the sample questions from which the civics portion of the naturalization test is drawn. An audio CD that allows students to listen to the questions, answers, and civics lessons read aloud is also included. For immigrants preparing to naturalize, the chance to learn more about the history and government of the United States will make their journey toward citizenship a more meaningful one.

Author : Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198279558

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Citizens and the State by Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs Pdf

Fears that representative democracy in western Europe is in crisis are examined on the basis of trends in mass attitudes over the past two or three decades. The evidence suggests not crisis but a changing relationship between citizens and the state. This change poses a democratic transformation in the countries of Western Europe.Series DescriptionThis set of five volumes is an exhaustive study of beliefs in government in post-war Europe. Based upon an extensive collection of survey evidence, the results challenge widely argued theories of mass opinion, and much scholarly writing about citizen attitudes towards government and politics.The series arises from a research project sponsored by the European Science FoundationSeries ISBN: 0-19-961880-1

Author : Holly Lawford-Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192570338

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Not In Their Name by Holly Lawford-Smith Pdf

There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states. Given their size and influence, states are able to inflict harm far beyond the reach of a single individual. But there is a great deal of unclarity about exactly who is implicated in that kind of harm, and how we should think about responsibility for it. It is a commonplace assumption that democratic publics both authorize and have control over what their states do; that their states act in their name and on their behalf. In Not In Their Name, Holly Lawford-Smith approaches these questions from the perspective of social ontology, asking whether the state is a collective agent, and whether ordinary citizens are members of that agent. If it is, and they are, there's a clear case for democratic collective culpability. She explores alternative conceptions of the state and of membership in the state; alternative conceptions of collective agency applied to the state; the normative implications of membership in the state; and both culpability (from the inside) and responsibility (from the outside) for what the state does. Ultimately, Lawford-Smith argues for the exculpation of ordinary citizens and the inculpation of those working in public services.

Author : Karrie Koesel,Valerie Bunce,Jessica Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190093518

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Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes by Karrie Koesel,Valerie Bunce,Jessica Weiss Pdf

The revival of authoritarianism is one of the most important forces reshaping world politics today. However, not all authoritarians are the same. To examine both resurgence and variation in authoritarian rule, Karrie J. Koesel, Valerie J. Bunce, and Jessica Chen Weiss gather a leading cast of scholars to compare the most powerful autocracies in global politics today: Russia and China. The essays in Citizens and the State in Authoritarian Regimes focus on three issues that currently animate debates about these two countries and, more generally, authoritarian political systems. First, how do authoritarian regimes differ from one another, and how do these differences affect regime-society relations? Second, what do citizens think about the authoritarian governments that rule them, and what do they want from their governments? Third, what strategies do authoritarian leaders use to keep citizens and public officials in line and how successful are those strategies in sustaining both the regime and the leader's hold on power? Integrating the most important findings from a now-immense body of research into a coherent comparative analysis of Russia and China, this book will be essential for anyone studying the foundations of contemporary authoritarianism.

Author : John David Mabbott
Publisher : London : Hutchinson University Library
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Political science
ISBN : UOM:39015003482943

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The State and the Citizen by John David Mabbott Pdf