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Citizenship Today : Global Perspectives and Practices
Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff
Paperback - $48.95
The forms, policies, and practices of citizenship are changing rapidly around the globe, and the meaning of these changes is the subject of deep dispute. Citizenship Today brings together leading experts in their field to define the core issues at st ...
From Migrants to Citizens : Membership in a Changing World
Thomas Alexander Aleinikoff
Paperback - $48.95
Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows. The debates are fierce. What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a ...
Talking to Strangers : Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown V. Board of Education
Danielle S. Allen
Hardcover - $39.95
"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profou ...
Militants and Citizens : The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre
Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Paperback - $39.95
" Baiocchi succeds in his aim of writing a concise, accessible study with broad practical and theoretical implications. It should be widely read by scholars, students, and activists concerned with prospects for democratic governance outside the North ...
Keeping the Republic : Power and Citizenship in American Politics
Christine Barbour
Paperback - $92.95
I'm a Teacher Too... : The War on Ignorance Continues
Brent M. Barry
Paperback - $50.95
All too often in our great nation's history there seems to be some sort of a separation between the great expectations of the American Education system, the greatness of our masses, and the awesomeness of the Department of Defense. Some have said, "N ...
Citizenship and Vulnerability : Disability and Issues of Social and Political Engagement
Angharad E. Beckett
Hardcover - $142.95
Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK, and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin, Habermas and Mouffe, Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body', Angharad Beckett ...
Approaching Democracy, Portfolio Edition
Larry Berman
Paperback - $104.95
This concise paperback introduces the basics of American government, structured around democracy as an ideal toward which we continually strive. Thematically organized, it prepares readers to review events in the context of this goal. This book prepa ...