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  • Citizens’ Hall

    Making Local Democracy Work

    by 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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Citizen Solution

    How You Can Make A Difference

    by Harry C. Boyte ...
    Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public consciousness and effectively motivate community-based groups, Boyte grounds his arguments in the country's tradition of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • E-Government and Websites

    A Public Solutions Handbook

    Edited by Aroon Manoharan ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • AWOL

    The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes from Military Service—and How It Hurts Our Country

    by Kathy Roth-Douquet, Frank Schaeffer ...
    "This impassioned, convincing manifesto" from two policy experts with military family "calls for class integration of the military" ( Publishers Weekly).Military service was once a natural part of good citizenship, with Americans of all classes serving during wartime. Not anymore. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, there is a growing disconnect between ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Local Politics and Mayoral Elections in 21st Century America

    The Keys to City Hall

    Edited by Sean D. Foreman, Marcia L. Godwin ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Urban Politics and Policy
    Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013. Open contests in New York City, Los Angeles and Boston, for example, offer laboratories to examine electoral trends in urban politics. Cities are facing varied predicaments. Boston was rocked by the bombing of the marathon on April 15. Detroit is roiled by being the largest U.S. city to declare bankruptcy, and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Unheavenly Chorus

    Unequal Political Voice and the Broken Promise of American Democracy

    by Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, Henry E. Brady ...
    Why American democracy favors the affluent and educatedPolitically active individuals and organizations make huge investments of time, energy, and money to influence everything from election outcomes to congressional subcommittee hearings to local school politics, while other groups and individual citizens seem woefully underrepresented in our political system. The Unheavenly Chorus is the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bob Swann's "Positively Dazzling Realism"

    by Stephanie Mills, Hildegarde Hannum ...
    Series 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. Writer, editor, ecologist, and activist, Stephanie Mills has been involved with matters ecological, bioregional, social, and political for over thirty years. Although her books and essays have largely fallen under the rubric of nature writing, she ... Read more

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  • Citizen Lobbyists

    Local Efforts to Influence Public Policy

    by 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 ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Participation and Empowerment at the Grassroots

    Chinese Village Elections in Perspective

    by Gunter Schubert, Anna L. Ahlers ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Lessons Learned Climbing The Ladder

    by 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 ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizen Sailors

    Becoming American in the Age of Revolution

    by Nathan Perl-Rosenthal ...
    In the decades after the United States formally declared its independence in 1776, Americans struggled to gain recognition of their new republic and their rights as citizens. None had to fight harder than the nation’s seamen, whose labor took them far from home and deep into the Atlantic world. Citizen Sailors tells the story of how their efforts to become American at sea in the midst of war and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Evolving Citizen

    American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement

    by Jay P. Childers ...
    Series series Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
    It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Compared to the youth of past generations, today’s young adults, so the story goes, spend too much time watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Internet. As a result, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD