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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Community Links
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956101211
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Community Links
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956101259
Author : COUNCIL ON SOCIAL ACTION.
Publisher : Community Links
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780955288999
Author : Great Britain. Department for Communities and Local Government
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 010174272X
This Command White Paper entitled "Communities in control" (Cm.7427, ISBN 9780101742726) sets out an agenda to enhance the power of communities and help people to meet their own priorities. A number of proposals are put forward seeking to devolve more power to citizens and away from both central and local government. The Paper is divided into 8 chapters: Chapter 1: The case for the people and the communities having more power; Chapter 2: Active citizens and the value of volunteering; Chapter 3: Access to information; Chapter 4: Having an influence; Chapter 5: Challenge - holding people acountable who exercise power; Chapter 6: Redress; Chapter 7: Standing for office; Chapter 8: Ownership and control. These chapters set out, from the perspective of individual citizens, seven key issues for developing empowerment in the local community. The proposed policies in this White Paper largely apply to England but UK proposals wil be implemented in consultation with the devolved administrations.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Community Links
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956101235
Author : Philipp Golka
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030061005
Providing an in-depth case study on the emergence of social impact investing in the UK, this book develops a new perspective on financialization processes that highlights the roles of non-financial actors. In contrast to the common view that impact investing gears finance toward the solution of social problems, the author analyzes how these investments create new problems and inequalities. To explain how social impact investing became popular in British social policy despite its unclear effectiveness, the author focuses on cooperative relations between institutional entrepreneurs from finance and various non-financial actors. Drawing on field theory, he shows how seemingly unrelated social transformations – such as HM Treasury's expanding role in public service reform – may act as resonance spaces for the spread of finance. Opening up a new perspective on financialization processes in the terrain of public policy, this book invites readers to refocus scholarship on capitalist dynamics to the meso-level. Based on this analysis, the author also proposes ways to transform social impact investing to increase its potential for reducing global inequalities.
Author : DAVID. ROBINSON
Publisher : Community Links
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780956712608
Author : Anthony Arblaster,Steven Lukes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Sociology
ISBN : PSU:000005654109
Author : Walter Lippmann
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Collectivism
ISBN : 9781412824743
Author : Chad Hanson
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412843324
The community college is the largest single sector of the U.S. higher education network. As of 2005, 40 percent of newly enrolled undergraduate students attended community colleges. The American two-year school is a vast, rapidly changing, and under-studied institution. The aim of The Community College and the Good Society is tocritically analyze the internal changes and external forces that shifted the focus of the two-year college—from the liberal arts to job training. Chad Hanson raises a series of questions about what is lost or forsaken when public institutions become preoccupied with economic goals. When educational institutions turn their attention toward training workers to private-sector specifications, Hanson argues, our social and cultural lives suffer. He describes the "the learning college movement," an ideological framework that justifies the current emphasis on vocational training. In addition, he explores the implications of competency-based education, a philosophy and method for creating curriculum with strong support among administrators and boards of trustees. For more than four decades, a steady stream of commentary aimed at understanding the two-year school made its way into the literature on higher education. In this work, Hanson provides an alternative view of the community college. He offers suggestions for new teaching strategies, curriculum, and organizational structure. These changes will encourage the potential for the two-year college to flourish as an institution that provides a permanent place for the arts and sciences.
Author : Zev M. Trachtenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134953646
By analysing Rousseau's conception of the general will, Zev Trachtenberg characterises the attitude of civic virtue Rousseau believes individuals must have to cooperate successfully in society. Rousseau holds that culture affects political life by either fostering or discouraging civic virtue. However, while the cultural institutions Rousseau endorses would motivate citizens to obey the law, they would not prepare citizens to help frame it. Rousseau's view of culture thus works against his account of legitimacy, and Trachtenberg concludes that Rousseau's political theory as a whole is inconsistent.
Author : Hubert J.M. Hermans,Rob Bartels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000283709
The core message of this educational book is that democracy is, more than ever before, in need of the personal contribution of engaged citizens. Democracy is viable only if it is rooted in the hearts and minds of citizens who feel responsible not only for their own well-being, but also for the quality of social relationships in a society with marked differences in race, religion, culture, and gender. Three basic features define personalized democracy: A critical attitude not only towards others but also towards oneself; learning not only from others but also from oneself; and participation in society with attention to the contradictive nature of one’s own mind. The authors emphasize that the development of personalized democracy and global citizenship requires participation at different identity levels: I as individual, we as members of social groups, we as part of humanity, and we as part of the earth. Written for future teachers at secondary level, the book contains dialogical self theory, research and a wide range of exercises.
Author : Robert J. Shiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400846177
Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why we need to reclaim finance for the common good The reputation of the financial industry could hardly be worse than it is today in the painful aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. New York Times best-selling economist Robert Shiller is no apologist for the sins of finance—he is probably the only person to have predicted both the stock market bubble of 2000 and the real estate bubble that led up to the subprime mortgage meltdown. But in this important and timely book, Shiller argues that, rather than condemning finance, we need to reclaim it for the common good. He makes a powerful case for recognizing that finance, far from being a parasite on society, is one of the most powerful tools we have for solving our common problems and increasing the general well-being. We need more financial innovation—not less—and finance should play a larger role in helping society achieve its goals. Challenging the public and its leaders to rethink finance and its role in society, Shiller argues that finance should be defined not merely as the manipulation of money or the management of risk but as the stewardship of society's assets. He explains how people in financial careers—from CEO, investment manager, and banker to insurer, lawyer, and regulator—can and do manage, protect, and increase these assets. He describes how finance has historically contributed to the good of society through inventions such as insurance, mortgages, savings accounts, and pensions, and argues that we need to envision new ways to rechannel financial creativity to benefit society as a whole. Ultimately, Shiller shows how society can once again harness the power of finance for the greater good.
Author : Robert Bellah,Richard Madsen,Steve Tipton,William Sullivan,Ann Swidler
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307787927
THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them.
Author : Will Kymlicka,Wayne Norman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191522666
Is it possible, in a modern, pluralistic society, to promote common bonds of citizenship while at the same time accommodating and showing respect for ethnocultural diversity? 'Citizenship' and 'diversity' have been two of the major topics of debate in both democratic politics and political theory over the past decade. Much has been written about the importance of citizenship, civic identities, and civic virtues for the functioning of liberal democracies, and the need to accommodate the ethnocultural, linguistic, and religious pluralism that is a fact of life in most modern states. By and large, however, these two topics have been largely discussed in mutual isolation. Much of the writing on the issues of both citizenship and diversity remains rather abstract and general and disconnected from the specific issues of public policy and institutional design. Citizenship in Diverse Societies examines the specific points of conflict and convergence between concerns for citizenship and diversity in democratic societies and reassesses and refines existing theories of 'diverse citizenship' by examining these theories in the light of actual practices and policies of pluralistic democracies.
