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Author : Annamari Konttinen
Publisher : University of Tampere
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9789514477010
Author : James Bryce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000679717
First published in 1909. Historian, jurist, diplomat, and member of Parliament, James Bryce (1838-1922) lived one of those remarkably full and fruitful nineteenth-century public lives that remain a wonder today. He served as ambassador to the United States from 1907 to 1913 and was one of the most knowledgeable, perceptive, and sympathetic interpreters of American civilization. This is a collection of his Yale lectures.
Author : David Batstone,Eduardo Mendieta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135302870
In The Good Citizen, some of the most eminent contemporary thinkers take up the question of the future of American democracy in an age of globalization, growing civic apathy, corporate unaccountability, and purported fragmentation of the American common identity by identity politics.
Author : David E. Campbell,Meira Levinson,Frederick M. Hess
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612504780
"By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.” So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States. They argue that the current period of “creative destruction”—when schools are closing and opening in response to reform mandates—is an ideal time to take an in-depth look at how successful strategies and programs promote civic education and good citizenship. Making Civics Count offers research-based insights into what diverse students and teachers know and do as civic actors, and proposes a blueprint for civic education for a new generation that is both practical and visionary.
Author : Ian Davies,Ian Gregory,Shirley Riley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135700379
Annotation. The work presented here is vitally important for the future of educational policy making and for classroom practice. With citizenship education high on the government's agenda this book should be read by a large audience.
Author : Cleveland, Grover.
Publisher : Best Books on
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1908-01-01
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 9781623767891
Author : Ralph Ketcham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351495486
Any searching look at the theory and practice of citizenship in the United States today is bewildering and disconcerting. Despite earnest concern for participation, access, and "leverage," there is a widespread perception that nothing citizens do has much meaning or influence. This book argues that for American democracy to work in the twenty-first century, renewed interest in teaching the nation's young citizens a sense of the public good is imperative.All of the nation's founders, especially Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison, addressed the question of whether and how a citizen can make a difference in the American political process. This concern harkens back even farther, to Locke, Erasmus, and Aristotle. Today, one obstacle to good citizenship is the social scientific turn in political science. Leaders in civic education in the twentieth century eschewed grand ideas and moral principles in favour of a focus on behaviourism and competitive, liberal politics. Another problem is the growing belief that the government has no business promoting the public good through the support of religious, educational, or cultural efforts.Ralph Ketcham vividly depicts the relationship of private self-interest and public-spirited action as these pertain to citizenship and good government. This is an enlightening book for the general reader, as well as for students, professional social scientists, and political philosophers.
Author : Diane Ravitch,Joseph P. Viteritti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0300099177
Annotation In this book leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Contributors such as Jean Bethke Elshtain, Nathan Glazer, Robert Putnam, Jack Rakove, and Alan Wolfe discuss topics that range from the place of religion in public life to political conflict in a pluralist society to the problems of racial inequality.
Author : Charles Pattie,Patrick Seyd,Paul Whiteley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 052153464X
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Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544395845
In this third edition of The Good Citizen, Russell Dalton uses current national public opinion surveys, including new evidence from 2018 Pew Center survey data, to show how Americans are changing their views on what good citizenship means. It’s not about recreating the halcyon politics of a generation ago, but recognition that new patterns of citizenship call for new processes and new institutions that reflect the values of the contemporary American public. Trends in participation, tolerance, and policy priorities reflect a younger generation that is more engaged, more tolerant, and more supportive of social justice. The Good Citizen shows how a younger generation is creating new norms of citizenship that are leading to a renaissance of democratic participation. An important comparative chapter in the book showcases cross-national comparisons that further demonstrate the vitality of American democracy.
Author : Diane Ravitch,Joseph P. Viteritti
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300129786
divAmericans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism about government has increased, and young people have a weak grasp of the principles that underlie our constitutional system. Crucial questions must be answered: How serious is the situation? What role do schools play in shaping civic behavior? Are current education reform initiatives—such as multiculturalism and school choice—counterproductive? How can schools contribute toward reversing the trend? This volume brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to probe the relation between a healthy democracy and education. Their original and provocative discussions cut across a range of important topics: the cultivation of democratic values, the formation of social capital in schools and communities, political conflict in a pluralist society, the place of religion in public life, the enduring problems of racial inequality. Gathering together the most current research and thinking on education and civil society, this is a book that deserves the attention of everyone who cares about the quality and future of American democracy./DIV
Author : Liette Gidlow
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801899010
This cultural history of voter turnout campaigns in early 20th century America sheds light on the problems that persist in democratic participation today. In the 1920s, America experienced low voter turnout at a level not seen in nearly a century. Reformers responded by launching massive campaigns to "Get Out the Vote.” Yet while these campaigns advocated civic participation, they also promoted an exclusionary message that transformed America’s political culture. By the late 1920s, "civic" would be practically synonymous with "middle class" and "white." At the time, weakened political parties, ascendant consumer culture, labor unrest, Jim Crow, widespread anti-immigration sentiment, and the new woman suffrage all raised serious questions about the meaning of good citizenship. Through techniques ranging from civic education to modern advertising, middle-class and elite whites worked in the realm of culture to undo the equality that constitutional amendments had seemed to achieve. Richly documented with primary sources from political parties and civic groups, popular and ethnic periodicals, and electoral returns, The Big Vote examines the national Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns as well as the internal dynamics of specific campaigns in New York City, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Birmingham, Alabama.
Author : William Simonsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429981265
Not all citizens seek to extract a free lunch from government by demanding more services at the same time that they eschew taxes. It is possible to gather the insights of an representative and informed citizenry in sophisticated and reliable form. Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation explores the means to obtaining informed insight from ci
Author : Joseph F. Freeman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015024963418
We like to think that government is there when we want it. Voters - if they vote - have the power. Elected officials, especiamly in local government, are there to carry out the details and to take care of the humdrum nuts-and-bolts running of things. Having been a council member and mayor for a small Southern manufacturing town Hill City, the author of this book has experienced what it is like to try and make local government work. This book takes readers inside the system to show the politics as its most human level by challenging the presumption of many political scientists that an understanding of governments is necessarily technical, addressing such abstractions as memory, symbol, context and power as they work in the practice of governing.
Author : Stefan T. Güntert,Theo Wehner,Harald A. Mieg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783030928179
This open access book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon of volunteer work: it examines motivational factors and questions of corporate organization and the social environment. In particular, this is the first book to present volunteer work in detail as a psychosocial resource and a source of well-being that should not be overused or abused. The book is based on the authors' 15 years of research into volunteer work in Europe. It provides clear instructions on designing volunteer work tasks, and on where boundaries must be respected. The findings include insights into cultural and national differences, and offer practical advice on the organization of volunteer work. This book answers questions like: How do we understand voluntary work? How essential is it that this kind of work remains unpaid and carried out by so-called laypersons with special motives? And what follows from this for the interaction between voluntary work and professionalized, paid employment? The analysis draws on perspectives from wellbeing research, organizational and industrial studies, social work, and related social sciences.
