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  • Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy

    Rethinking Public Influence

    par Brian E. Adams ...
    Local democracy doesn’t work as it should, declares Brian Adams in Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy. Local politics is where citizens have the most opportunity for direct participation, control, and influence, but that activism doesn’t necessarily translate into majority rule.While greater local engagement can produce policy that better reflects activists’ strong preferences, Adams ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Citizen Lobbyists

    Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy

    par Brian E. Adams ...
    Citizen Lobbyists explores how U.S. citizens participate in local government. Although many commentators have lamented the apathy of the American citizenry, Brian Adams focuses on what makes ordinary Americans become involved in and attempt to influence public policy issues that concern them. It connects theory and empirical data in a new and revealing way, providing both a thorough review of the ... En savoir plus

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  • Fighting for Common Ground

    How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

    par Olympia Snowe ...
    An outspoken centrist, Senator Snowe stunned Washington in February 2012 when she announced she would not seek a fourth term and offered a sharp rebuke to the Senate, citing the dispiriting gridlock and polarization. After serving in the legislative branch at the state and federal levels for 40 years, including 18 years in the U.S. Senate, she explained that Washington wasn’t solving the big ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Republic of Conscience

    par Gary Hart ...
    Former Senator Gary Hart’s The Republic of Conscience is a meditation on the growing gap between the founding principles of the United States Constitution and our current political landscape.Going back as early as 400 BC, the idea of a true republic has been threatened by narrow, special interests taking precedence over the commonwealth. The United States Constitution was drafted to protect ... En savoir plus

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  • Distributing Our Technological Inheritance

    par Gar Alperovitz, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Collections series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
    The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Arguing that our current sophisticated technology builds on a history of scientific achievements which are rightly our shared cultural inheritance, Gar Alperovitz then constructs a philosophical argument for broad distribution of the profits earned ... En savoir plus

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  • E-Government and Websites

    A Public Solutions Handbook

    Modifié par Aroon Manoharan ...
    Collections series The Public Solutions Handbook Series
    This book presents a citizen-centric perspective of the dual components of e-government and e-governance. E-government refers to the practice of online public reporting by government to citizens, and to service delivery via the Internet. E-governance represents the initiatives for citizens to participate and provide their opinion on government websites. This volume in the Public Solutions Handbook ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Daring Democracy

    Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection for the America We Want

    par Adam Eichen, Frances Moore Lappé ...
    An optimistic book for Americans who are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, What do we do now? The answer: We need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy.Americans are distraught as tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary Diet for a Small Planet author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar Adam Eichen offer a fresh, ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Citizens’ Hall

    Making Local Democracy Work

    par Andre Carrel ...
    Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy–for turning what are now “colonies” of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic entities. For Carrel, the citizen is the sole legitimate source of political power, and the best tool for citizen empowerment is the controversial tool of the referendum.This ... En savoir plus

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  • Building a Civil Society

    Associations, Public Life, and the Origins of Modern Italy

    par Steven C. Soper ...
    The most passionate advocates of Italy’s unification in the nineteenth century possessed an almost limitless faith in the benefits of civic association. They also shared a common concern: once Italian unification was achieved and various freedoms were established, would ordinary Italians naturally become responsible, progressive citizens – especially after centuries of foreign rule, regional ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD

  • Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots

    Chinese Village Elections in Perspective

    par Gunter Schubert, Anna L. Ahlers ...
    Collections series Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
    This monograph ties in the scholarly debate on Chinese village elections and their consequences for China’s political system. It draws on comparative fieldwork conducted in six villages in two counties in Jiangxi and Jilin Provinces and one district in Shenzhen between 2002 and 2005, producing data from some 140 in-depth interviews of villagers and local officials up to the prefectural level. The ... En savoir plus

    $136.99 CAD

  • Lessons Learned Climbing The Ladder

    par Ron Graner ...
    The death, injury and stress rate for firefighters and others in public safety service continues to grow. Could the root cause of these conditions be leaders who have failed to learn from past experiences?This book relates many of the dangers and hazards that have been learned over the years to help those who want to become better public safety leaders. This is a guide for current and future Fire ... En savoir plus

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  • Patronage and Power

    Local State Networks and Party-State Resilience in Rural China

    par Ben Hillman ...
    Power and Patronage examines the unwritten rules and inner workings of contemporary China's local politics and government. It exposes how these rules have helped to keep the one-Party state together during decades of tumultuous political, social, and economic change.While many observers of Chinese politics have recognized the importance of informal institutions, this book explains how informal ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD