Civics and citizenship Books
Princeton University Press Read My Lips Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Excellent... Williamson's most important contribution is her insistence that taxes are crucial in defining notions of what it means to be a real, deserving, and politically engaged American citizen."--Joseph Thorndike, Tax Notes "A Tea Party expert draws on fascinating interviews with 49 Americans--white, black, Asian and Hispanic, urban and rural, Republican and Democrat--on their views on taxation, from form-filling to government waste to loopholes, and neatly upends the view of US citizens as reluctant taxpayers."--Karen Shook, Times Higher Education "Read My Lips is a useful corrective to the dire view of Americans as irrational and ill-informed antitax zealots. It also offers Democrats a useful insight: Maybe Republicans' perceived edge on taxation owes less to the popularity of their views than to Democrats' own failure to marshal a civic commitment to taxes for liberal ends. Having identified the problem, Williamson may be pointing the way to a solution to the ugly politics of taxation."--Josh Mound, Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Preface: The Tax Revolt Was a Long Time Ago ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1 Pride and Prejudice and Taxes 26 2 How the Taxpaying Experience Obscures Low-Income Taxpayers 46 3 Where Should Tax Money Go? 79 4 How the Taxpaying Experience Shapes Attitudes about Progressivity 117 5 (How) Is Tax Money Wasted? 142 Conclusion 165 Appendix A The U.S. Tax System: A Brief Introduction 183 Appendix B Meet the Interviewees 193 Notes 235 Index 277
£999.99
Princeton University Press Our Compelling Interests The Value of Diversity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For a collection of essays, the book is well organized and unusually coherent. Each of the essays makes important contributions to what is likely among the most important challenges the US will face in the twenty-first century. Though balanced, the overall tone is optimistic."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Contributors xiii Introduction: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society 1 Earl Lewis and Nancy Cantor The "Diversity Explosion" Is America's Twenty- first- Century Baby Boom 16 William H. Frey PART ONE: ESSAYS Chapter 1. Less Separate, Still Unequal: Diversity and Equality in "Post- Civil Rights" America 39 Thomas J. Sugrue Chapter 2. Toward a Connected Society 71 Danielle Allen Chapter 3. The Economic Value of Diversity 106 Anthony Carnevale and Nicole Smith PART TWO : COMMENTARIES Chapter 4. The Diversity of Diversity 161 Kwame Anthony Appiah Chapter 5. Group Interactions in Building a Connected Society 170 Patricia Gurin Chapter 6. Diversity and Institutional Life: Levels and Objects 182 Ira Katznelson Chapter 7. Diversity as a Strategic Advantage: A Sociodemographic Perspective 192 Marta Tienda Notes 207 Index 245
£17.09
Princeton University Press Good Neighbors
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Spirituality and Practice's 50 Best Spirituality Books of 2018""[Rosenblum] draws on a wide range of historical, literary, and sociological sources--from the stories of Raymond Carver to an ethnography of Crown Heights, Brooklyn--to produce a kaleidoscopic picture of American neighborliness."---Joshua Rothman, New Yorker"Rosenblum's book is an accessible, always interesting, narrative-filled theoretical engagement. Whether one agrees or disagrees, the journey is nuanced, insightful and original."---P.E. Digeser, Perspectives on Politics"A creative and enlightening book on neighbors, democratic public life, and the rigors and toxins of politics in America."---Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality & Practice
£20.90
Princeton University Press When All Else Fails
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Bloomberg Opinion's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018 (Stephen L. Carter)""One of our most provocative philosophers argues that if we can use force to stop others from hurting people unjustly, we can also use force to stop the government from hurting people unjustly."---Stephen L. Carter, Bloomberg Opinion"This book is essential reading in an age in which political systems appear to be failing and in flux and populations are becoming insecure and distrustful of their governments. . . . It should stimulate a debate that we need to have."---Lisa Mckenzie, Times Higher Education"Provocative and entertaining. . . . Much of the book is Brennan defending his moral parity thesis from challenges, such as the social contract (we consent to government rule), good faith (agents are just doing their jobs as best as they can), and dangerous misapplication (dumb people will make terrible mistakes). Brennan deftly knocks down these objections one by one. . . . When All Else Fails argues persuasively that even if a government agent or official is part of a popularly elected democratic regime, this doesn't magically confer immunity from defensive action when the agent or official engages in unjust, immoral actions."---Matthew Harwood, Reason"[An] excellent book."---Amit Varma, Pragati"Brennan . . . presses his readers to examine and justify . . . moral and political dispositions, and denies them easy recourse to democratic legitimacy as a way out."---Luke Philip Plotica, Democratization
£25.00
Princeton University Press Defend the Sacred
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion, Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion""Finalist for the PROSE Award in Legal Studies and Criminology, Association of American Publishers""An immensely validating book for advocates and community members immersed in Indigenous Peoples’ religious freedom." * Harvard Law Review *"An exemplary model of interdisciplinary scholarship, McNally’s book brings much-needed critical attention to the religious claims of Native peoples and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in securing greater legal protection for Native religious freedom."---N. Bruce Duthu, Native American and Indigenous Studies"Comprehensive and widely accessible. . . . McNally successfully exposes the real breadth of Native American religious freedom discourse, making this text an important read for those working in law and policy on the ground as much as those students and scholars working at the intersections of law, religion, and Indigenous studies."---Nicholas Shrubsole, Religious Studies Review
£25.20
Princeton University Press Citizenship 2.0
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Harpaz’s achievement is to have furnished an account of citizenship’s commodification."---Tadgh Healy, Dublin Review of Books"[Citizenship 2.0] is a wonderful read that supplies many provocative arguments and insightful observations. The intrepid fieldwork—in three countries and even more languages—complements a revealing quantitative analysis that breaks down numerous unfounded assumptions about dual citizenship. It provides an important platform for research and debate going forward." * American Journal of Sociology *
£71.40
Princeton University Press Citizenship 2.0
Book Synopsis"Examining an important, rising trend in today's global system, Citizenship 2.0 does us a fine service in exploring the origins and consequences of the dual citizenship phenomenon."--Alejandro Portes, Princeton University.sity.Trade Review"Citizenship 2.0 makes a significant contribution to comparative studies of citizenship as a legal status. Harpaz has a rare gift for interpreting individual motives and attitudes. With a highly original argument, he teases out all the nuances and emotional ambivalences that drive his respondents toward seeking an external citizenship that they do not intend to fully and immediately use. This book is a real gem."—Rainer Bauböck, author of Democratic Inclusion "Examining an important, rising trend in today’s global system, Citizenship 2.0 does us a fine service in exploring the origins and consequences of the dual citizenship phenomenon. Harpaz’s analysis is one worth engaging with and holds significant implications for the fields of international migration and international relations.”—Alejandro Portes, Princeton University"Well-written and thoughtfully structured, Citizenship 2.0 contends that a new pattern has emerged in which significant numbers of people have taken a highly instrumental approach toward the acquisition of dual nationality. The admirable case studies add nuance to the book’s arguments and the quality of the scholarship is high. A pleasure to read."—David FitzGerald, University of California, San Diego"This excellent book shows that today’s neoliberal states are reaping what they sowed: strategic or instrumental citizenship. Harpaz unpacks subtle layers in individuals’ citizenship strategies through which they navigate a global class structure. The book is innovative for positing citizenship in a context of global inequality."—Christian Joppke, University of Bern
£25.20
Princeton University Press A Site of Struggle
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, College Art Association"
£31.50
Princeton University Press When All Else Fails The Ethics of Resistance to
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Bloomberg Opinion's Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2018 (Stephen L. Carter)"
£17.09
Princeton University Press Citizenship Inequality and Difference
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] pithy, clearly-argued book."---Mike Rapport, Comparativ
£20.90
Princeton University Press A Matter of Obscenity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A History Today Book of the Year""A fascinating study of censorship in modern Britain"---Hannah Rose Woods, History Today"A Matter of Obscenity: The Politics of Censorship in Modern England refashions developments in the law into a lucid and engaging cultural history."---Thomas J. Sojka, Los Angeles Review of Books"The description of obscenity trials famous and less well-known is superbly rendered, as is Hilliard’s analysis of the ever-changing link between social morality and the law"---Matthew D’Ancona, Tortoise Media"A Matter of Obscenity is an informative, even-handed and lucid study of British censorship in the 20th century. It is highly recommended, wherever you draw your personal lines regarding the division between the acceptable and unacceptable."---Alexander Adams, Spiked"Christopher Hilliard’s A Matter of Obscenity is an engaging read, full of compelling details about the authors and publishers accused of trafficking in obscenity and about the politicians and judges who claimed to know it when they saw it"---Emily Rutherford, History Today"Hilliard offers a fascinating romp through pornography, gangster comics, naughty postcards, avant garde plays, lewd cinema and modernist literature to demonstrate how ‘obscenity law reflected uncertainties about what could be said – and, crucially, how and to whom – in a changing society"---Alecia Simmonds, Literature and History
£19.80
Princeton University Press The Shamama Case
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, History Category""Winner of the James Willard Hurst Book Prize, Law & Society Association""Winner of the Mediterranean Seminar Best Book Prize""Co-Winner – Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association""Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association""Absorbing."---Abigail Green, London Review of Books"Clear and accessible."---Roger S. Kohn, Association of Jewish Libraries
£27.00
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Freedom and the Court Civil Rights and Liberties
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1967, ""Freedom and the Court"" has become a standard text on civil liberties law. Now updated to cover Supreme Court decisions through 2003, this eighth edition addresses essential questions of how to reconcile civil liberties with national security in the aftermath of 9/11.Table of ContentsThe ""Double Standard""; The Bill Of Rights And Its Applicability To The States Historical Background; The Fascinating World Of ""Due Process Of Law""; The Precious Freedom Of Expression; Religion; Race-The American Dilemma - The Evolving Equal Protection Of The Laws; Gender And Race Under The New Equal Protection.
£27.50
University Press of Kansas A Terrible Thing to Waste Arthur Fletcher and
Book SynopsisArthur Fletcher (1924-2005) was the most important civil rights leader you've (probably) never heard of. Fletcher's story, told in full for the first time in this book, embodies the conundrum of the post-World War II black Republican - the civil rights leader who remained loyal to the party even as it abandoned the principles he espoused.Trade ReviewArthur Fletcher lived an extraordinary life. David Hamilton Golland skillfully shows how Fletcher differed from other postwar civil rights leaders and struggled to advance racial equality as a government official and an African American Republican. Golland also poignantly chronicles the numerous personal tragedies that Fletcher confronted."" - Timothy N. Thurber, author of Republicans and Race: The GOP's Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945–1974""Golland's newest book provides unique insights into one of the civil rights movement's most enigmatic iconoclasts: Arthur Fletcher. In this definitive biography, Golland explores the roots and impact of Fletcher's approach to civil rights, which blended mainstream integrationist ideals with self-help, capitalism, and, most importantly, government-sponsored affirmative action. Though Fletcher is not as well-known as other activists of the era, Golland convincingly makes the case for his inclusion in the pantheon of mid- to late twentieth-century activists."" - Joshua D. Farrington, author of Black Republicans and the Transformation of the GOPTable of Contents Introduction 1. Origins, 1924-1945 2. A Terrible Thing to Waste, 1946-1960 3. Moon Shot, 1961-1969 4. The Man with the Plan, 1969-1971 5. Roller Coaster, 1971-1979 6. Bush for President, 1980-1989 7. Man of Rage, 1990-1995 Conclusion: The Conundrum of the Black Republican Notes Index
£44.06
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas To Trust the People with Arms The Supreme Court
Book SynopsisExplores the remarkable and complex legal history of how the right to bear arms was widely accepted during the US’s founding, was near extinction in the late twentieth century, and is now experiencing a rebirth in the Supreme Court in the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewTwo of the leading Second Amendment scholars in the nation, Robert Cottrol and Brannon Denning bring their deep expertise to this rich, detailed history of the right to bear arms. To Trust the People with Arms shows how gun rights took root and developed, from the Revolutionary era to the US Supreme Court’s 2008 decision in the Heller case—despite being abused by racists and misunderstood by others." - Adam Winkler, Connell Professor of Law at UCLA and author of We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights and Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in AmericaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Constitutional Predicates 2. “Negro Laborers,” “Low-Browed Foreigners,” and the “Efficiency of a Well-Regulated Militia” 3. Arms, War, and law in the American Century 4. From Causal Acceptance to Virtual Desuetude 5. Shifting Tides 6. One Case, Many Controversies 7. A Silence Broken 8. McDonald 9. Bruen, An Unanticipated Epilogue Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
£44.25
Pluto Press Selling Apartheid South Africas Global Propaganda
Book SynopsisTells the story of South Africa's shocking propaganda campaign which sold apartheid across the worldTrade Review'This is an important story that needed to be told about the apartheid government's global lobbying effort that tried to whitewash its reprehensible policy of racial separation' -- Eleanor Holmes Norton, US House of Representatives'A major contribution to the scholarship on the apartheid era and the struggle for liberation in South Africa ... One cannot understand the South African freedom movement without understanding the issues that Nixon so effectively presents to the reader' -- Bill Fletcher Jr, former president of TransAfrica'This is a tale of intrigue, rich characters and large chequebooks, played out in all the Western capitals' -- Anton Harber, Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand'Meticulously unpacks the complex web of relationships and covert money flows that promoted South Africa's repressive policies. At a time of widening alarm over the onslaught of 'fake news', Nixon provides a disturbing exploration of the extreme lengths to which institutions can go to spread misinformation' -- Minneapolis Star Tribune'Essential' -- Ron Jacobs, CounterpunchTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Apartheid Is Good for Blacks 2. In Defence of Apartheid 3. Taking the Offensive 4. Operation Blackwash 5. Muldergate 6. Constructive Engagement 7. Free South Africa 8. Stopping the Anti-Apartheid Movement 9. Sanctions Only Hurt Blacks 10. The Fixer 11. Operation Heartbreak 12. The Anti-Sanctions Videos 13. Apartheid's Man in Angola 14. Apartheid's Last Gasp 15. The End of Apartheid Notes on Sources Acknowledgements Index
£16.14
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Rethinking Citizenship Welfare Ideology and
Book SynopsisCitizenship rights have become vital to our sense of personal identity and social membership in modern society. In this book Maurice Roche argues that today we have to shift from the conventional post--war politics of social rights to a new politics of social obligations and personal responsibility.Trade Review'Maurice Roche's timely book Rethinking Citizenship offers a comprehensive overview of the concept of citizenship in social policy. A detailed, informative and highly recommended book.' Journal of Sociology & Social WelfareTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Dominant Paradigm and its Limits:. 1. Social Citizenship and the Dominant Paradigm: the British case. 2. Alternative Version of Social Citizenship. 3. The Limits of Social Citizenship:. Poverty and the Underclass in the USA. Part II: The Neoconservative Challenge:. Social Duties and Cultural Change:. 4. Neoconservatism, Citizenship and Welfare. 5. Reforming Social Citizenship I:. Neoconservatism and Family Policy in the USA. 6. Reforming Social Citizenship II:. Neoconservatism and Work Policy in the USA. Part III: The Challenge of Modernity:. Social Rights and Political Economic Change:. 7. Reinventing Social Citizenship I:. Post-Industrialism, and New Social Rights. 8. Reinventing Social Citizenship II:. Post-Nationalism, and New Social Rights in Europe. 9. Rethinking Social Citizenship: Rights, Duties and Capitalism. Bibliography.
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd What Is Citizenship
Book SynopsisStructured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.Trade Review"[This] book fundamentally transforms our understanding of citizenship. It should become required reading in any course in political theory, philosophy, history, international relations and comparative politics that considers this key concept and its practical political and policy implications." Joel Krieger, Wellesley College, USA "This is an excellent book. It would not be possible for any good university course dealing with citizenship to omit this book from those items on the reading list marked 'essential'...The sharpness of thought shown in this book will make it easier to avoid the pitfalls and encourage people to reach for something that is coherent and meaningful...Superlatives are overused, but this book is a classic." Jan Davies, University of YorkTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgement viii Introduction 1 1 The Liberal Tradition 4 Origins • Citizenship and capitalism • Marshall's analysis • Marshall: influence and judgements • Social citizenship and neo-liberalism • Two additional elements • Citizenship rights at the turn of the century • The problem of rights in practice 2 The Civic Republican Tradition 44 Major thinkers • Purpose of citizenship • Style of citizenship • Qualities of citizenship • Role of the citizen • Forming the citizen • Revival and arguments • Adaptations for today 3 Who Are Citizens? 80 Legal definitions • Equality or elitism? • Feminist perspectives • Citizenship as nationality: origins • Citizenship and nationality synthesized • National citizens: made or born • Multiculturalism 4 Multiple Citizenship 115 The idea of multiple citizenship • Parallel citizenships • Federal constitutions • The European Union • Sub-state citizenships • The idea of cosmopolis • World citizenship identity and morality • World law and the citizen • World governance and the citizen • Pros and cons 5 Problems and Resolutions 155 Inherent problems and tensions • Current issues • The roles of education • Connections and essence References 181 Select Reading List 187 Index 189
£16.14
John Wiley & Sons Sexual Diversity in Africa Politics Theory and
Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of sexual diversity in Africa from a multidisciplinary perspective.Trade Review"This anthology gives us a rich, nuanced discussion of colonial legacies and comparative case studies that inform the reader of the fluidity and diversity of sexual discursive formations across the continent." Mechthild Nagel, Wagadu, A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies "[Sexual Diversity in Africa] sets out to investigate non-normative sexualities and gender variance in the African context, [with] authors representing a new generation of African scholars engaged in this topic. This important and well-timed book appears as one African country after the other tightens antigay laws: 38 out of 54 countries in Africa currently criminalize homosexuality." Journal of African Studies "The editors of this volume succeed in proving that work on nonnormative sexual practices and identities in Africa remains urgent, while at the same time they ask new questions to reshape and redirect these scholarly investigations. This is an extraordinary rich collection of essays, which are theoretically sophisticated and grounded in fine ethnographic detail. Sexual Diversity in Africa will be of interest to postgraduate students, as well as scholars of sexuality in Africa, and I would strongly recommend that activists and those involved in nongovernmental organizations (NGO) funding read it too. The book is an assertion of the complex politics of LGBTI communities on the continent, complexities too often ignored by international funders, occasionally to the peril of the very people they hope to assist. It is also a profound and important rejection of the unhelpful binary that "Western" scholars and scholarship are either dangerous or not useful to research on sexualities in Africa." - Sarah Duff, H-Net H-Histsex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Law and Citizenship
Book SynopsisThe essays this volume provide a framework for analyzing citizenship in an increasingly globalized world by addressing a number of fundamental questions.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Thinking about Citizenship and Law in an Era of Change / Jane Jenson2 Exile on Main Street: Popular Discourse and Legal Manoeuvres around Citizenship / Audrey Macklin3 Home and Away: The Construction of Citizenship in an Emigration Context / Kim Barry4 Multinational Citizenship: Practical Implications of a Theoretical Model / Siobhan Harty and Michael Murphy5 The Crisis of the Welfare State and the Demise of Social Citizenship? A Sociolegal Perspective / Michel Coutu6 Dis-citizenship / Richard Devlin and Dianne Pothier7 Connecting Economy, Gender, and Citizenship / Mary Condon and Lisa PhilippsContributorsIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Constituency Influence in Parliament Countering
Book SynopsisThis book examines the rules and conduct of Private Members’ Business to assess the crucial role of MPs in representing citizens and affecting policy decisions.Table of Contents1 Parliament and Its Members: Representation and Governance2 The Electoral Connection and Legislative Behaviour in Canada3 Legislation in the House: Private Members’ Business4 Private Members’ Business: Participation and Motivation5 Constituency Interests and Private Members’ Business6 The Nation’s Interests, the Party’s Interests, or the MP’s Interests?7 Does It Matter? Do Members of Parliament Influence Policy?8 Conclusion: Individual Autonomy and RepresentationAppendices; Notes; Bibliography
£70.20
University of British Columbia Press Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive
Book SynopsisAll advanced democracies have faced the pressures of globalization, technological change, and new family forms, which have generated higher levels of inequality in market incomes. But countries have responded differently, reflecting differences in their domestic politics. The politics of who gets what and why is at the core of this volume, the first to examine this question in an explicitly Canadian context.In Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics, leading political scientists, sociologists, and economists point to the failure of public policy to contain surging income inequality. Government programs are no longer offsetting the growth in inequality generated by the market, and Canadian society has become more unequal. The redistributive state is fading due to powerful forces that have reshaped the politics of social policy, including global economic pressures, ideological change, shifts in the influence of business and labour, changes in the party sysTable of Contents1 Introduction: Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics / Keith Banting and John MylesPart 1: Politics2 Historical Transformations of Canada’s Social Architecture: Institutions, Instruments, and Ideas / Jane Jenson3 Drivers of Increasing Market Income Inequality: Structural Change and Policy / David A. Green and James Townsend4 Business, Labour, and Redistributive Politics / William D. Coleman5 Restructuring Civil Society: Muting the Politics of Redistribution / Susan D. Phillips6 Public Opinion on Social Spending, 1980-2005 / Robert Andersen and Josh Curtis7 Multicultural Diversity and Redistribution / Keith Banting, Stuart Soroka, and Edward Koning8 The Party System, Elections, and Social Policy / Richard Johnston9 The New Bureaucratic Politics of Redistribution / David A. Good10 Territorial Politics and the New Politics of Redistribution / Gerard W. Boychuk11 Quebec’s New Politics of Redistribution / Alain NoëlPart 2: Policy12 Health Care Policy after Universality: Canada in Comparative Perspective / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy13 Income Security for Seniors: System Maintenance and Policy Drift / John Myles14 The Recent Evolution of Tax-Transfer Policies / Robin Boadway and Katherine Cuff15 Childcare, New Social Risks, and the New Politics of Redistribution in Ontario / Rianne Mahon16 Labour Market Income Transfers and Redistribution: National Themes and Provincial Variations / Rodney HaddowPart 3: Conclusion17 Canadian Social Futures: Concluding Reflections / Keith Banting and John MylesIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive
Book SynopsisLeading political scientists, sociologists, and economists explain how and why Canadian public policy has been falling behind in the race to contain surging income inequality.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Inequality and the Fading of Redistributive Politics / Keith Banting and John MylesPart 1: Politics2 Historical Transformations of Canada’s Social Architecture: Institutions, Instruments, and Ideas / Jane Jenson3 Drivers of Increasing Market Income Inequality: Structural Change and Policy / David A. Green and James Townsend4 Business, Labour, and Redistributive Politics / William D. Coleman5 Restructuring Civil Society: Muting the Politics of Redistribution / Susan D. Phillips6 Public Opinion on Social Spending, 1980-2005 / Robert Andersen and Josh Curtis7 Multicultural Diversity and Redistribution / Keith Banting, Stuart Soroka, and Edward Koning8 The Party System, Elections, and Social Policy / Richard Johnston9 The New Bureaucratic Politics of Redistribution / David A. Good10 Territorial Politics and the New Politics of Redistribution / Gerard W. Boychuk11 Quebec’s New Politics of Redistribution / Alain NoëlPart 2: Policy12 Health Care Policy after Universality: Canada in Comparative Perspective / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy13 Income Security for Seniors: System Maintenance and Policy Drift / John Myles14 The Recent Evolution of Tax-Transfer Policies / Robin Boadway and Katherine Cuff15 Childcare, New Social Risks, and the New Politics of Redistribution in Ontario / Rianne Mahon16 Labour Market Income Transfers and Redistribution: National Themes and Provincial Variations / Rodney HaddowPart 3: Conclusion17 Canadian Social Futures: Concluding Reflections / Keith Banting and John MylesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this book approaches the “democratic deficit” by assessing the performance of Parliament and the media in light of Canadians’ perceptions and expectations of their democracy.Table of ContentsForeword / Michael MacMillan and Alison LoatIntroduction / Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo1 Attitudes toward Democratic Norms and Practices: Canada in Comparative Perspective / Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett2 Canadians’ Evaluations of MPs: Performance Matters / Nick Ruderman3 Repertoire-Building or Elite-Challenging? Understanding Political Engagement in Canada / Michael A. Painter-Main4 Outsiders: Agency and the Non-Engaged / Heather Bastedo, Wayne Chu, and Jane Hilderman5 Media and Political Inequality / Quinn Albaugh and Christopher Waddell6 The Story behind the Story: Evaluating the Content of Political News / Heather Bastedo, Quinn Albaugh, and Alex Marland7 Social Media and Agenda Setting / Wayne Chu and Fred Fletcher8 Representing Canadians: Is the 41st Parliament Still a Vertical Mosaic? / Livianna Tossutti and Jane Hilderman9 MPs on the Home Front: How Constituency Characteristics Influence Representational Approaches / Munroe Eagles, Royce Koop, and Alison Loat10 Democratic Responsiveness in the House of Commons / Kelly Blidook11 A Tale of Two Perspectives: Election Promises and Government Actions in Canada / François PétryConclusion: Taking Stock of Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up / Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather BastedoAppendix: Samara 2012 Citizens’ Survey MethodologyIndex
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this book approaches the democratic deficit by assessing the performance of Parliament and the media in light of Canadians' perceptions and expectations of their democracy.Table of ContentsForeword / Michael MacMillan and Alison LoatIntroduction / Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo1 Attitudes toward Democratic Norms and Practices: Canada in Comparative Perspective / Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett2 Canadians’ Evaluations of MPs: Performance Matters / Nick Ruderman3 Repertoire-Building or Elite-Challenging? Understanding Political Engagement in Canada / Michael A. Painter-Main4 Outsiders: Agency and the Non-Engaged / Heather Bastedo, Wayne Chu, and Jane Hilderman5 Media and Political Inequality / Quinn Albaugh and Christopher Waddell6 The Story behind the Story: Evaluating the Content of Political News / Heather Bastedo, Quinn Albaugh, and Alex Marland7 Social Media and Agenda Setting / Wayne Chu and Fred Fletcher8 Representing Canadians: Is the 41st Parliament Still a Vertical Mosaic? / Livianna Tossutti and Jane Hilderman9 MPs on the Home Front: How Constituency Characteristics Influence Representational Approaches / Munroe Eagles, Royce Koop, and Alison Loat10 Democratic Responsiveness in the House of Commons / Kelly Blidook11 A Tale of Two Perspectives: Election Promises and Government Actions in Canada / François PétryConclusion: Taking Stock of Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up / Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather BastedoAppendix: Samara 2012 Citizens’ Survey MethodologyIndex
£25.19
Cornell University Press The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain
Book SynopsisSince the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people. Drawing on national surveys taken in 1978, 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors explore...Trade ReviewIn analyzing the journey made by the Spanish people on their transition to and consolidation of democracy, the authors have brought to the fore many social and cultural influences on the processes of democratization and politics. * British Bulletin of Publications on Latin Americathe Caribbean, Portugal and Spain *This book makes a very important contribution to our integrated understanding of democratic processes—not only how successful the establishment of democracy is, but also how it affects the citizenry. -- Cristina Leston-Bandeira * South European Society and Politics *McDonough, Barnes, and López Pina have long set the standard for quality research on Spanish public opinion. This fascinating work is currently the best single book on Spanish public opinion, and it breaks new ground in many areas.... In carefully advancing their path-breaking interpretation of Spanish political culture and political behavior, McDonough et al. provide a model of how to use opinion research to conduct rich and meaningful comparative political analysis. -- Donald Share * American Political Science Review *This book... will probably stand as the definitive portrait of mass political attitudes and behavior during a critical period.... Providing nuanced historical context, pertinent comparisons, and exhaustive multivariate analyses of an enormous data set, this book is an indispensable addition to the literature on Spanish democracy. Highly recommended. * Choice *This book is particularly useful in that it provides an English-speaking public with a way into the long-running debate on mass opinions and values in the young Spanish democracy. -- Jonathan Hopkin * Political Studies *
£66.60
Cornell University Press Citizens Without Shelter
Book SynopsisOne of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman...Trade ReviewCitizens without Shelter traces the development of homelessness policy by analyzing local regulations and their judicial challenges. Leonard Feldman argues that cities and the courts are now criminalizing the very activities that homeless citizens must carry out in order to live. He also explores the changing definitions of 'the public sphere,' 'citizenship,' and 'home' in political philosophy, and how the interaction among these definitions has had an impact on the evolution of homelessness regulations. * Political Science Quarterly *Feldman provides a thoughtful and nuanced examination of the cultural messages that undergird the wide range of arguments that structure both national and local debates in the United States over appropriate public responses to homelessness.... This extremely interesting work is highly recommended to anyone interested in the politics of homelessness or, more broadly, in the development of the 'frames' that both organize and become the grounds for contestation in public policy debates. -- D. R. Imig, University of Memphis * Choice *In Citizens without Shelter, Leonard Feldman writes about homelessness and about those who write about the homeless.... He argues—correctly, I believe—that the homeless typically are excluded from democratic politics. -- Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University * Perspectives on Political Science *
£42.30
Cornell University Press Fighting for Rights
Book SynopsisLeaders around the globe have long turned to the armed forces as a school for the nation. Debates over who serves continue to arouse passion today because the military''s participation policies are seen as shaping politics beyond the military, specifically the politics of identity and citizenship. Yet how and when do these policies transform patterns of citizenship? Military service, Ronald R. Krebs argues, can play a critical role in bolstering minorities'' efforts to grasp full and unfettered rights. Minority groups have at times effectively contrasted their people''s battlefield sacrifices to the reality of inequity, compelling state leaders to concede to their claims. At the same time, military service can shape when, for what, and how minorities have engaged in political activism in the quest for meaningful citizenship. Employing a range of rich primary materials, Krebs shows how the military''s participation policies shaped Arab citizens'' struggles for first-classTrade Review"Fighting for Rights combines historical research and sociological insight with a full command of contemporary developments. With a focus on African Americans in the United States and the Druze in Israel, Krebs brilliantly documents under what circumstances military service can or cannot expand the citizenship rights of racial, ethnic, and other minorities. This book is truly pathbreaking." -- Charles Moskos, Northwestern University, author of A Call to Civic Service"Ronald R. Krebs has taken two disparate topics, security and minority relations, and managed to use them in new and innovative ways to shed light on each other. His innovative framework demonstrates how one minority in Israel, the Druze, was able to signal its intentions and frame its demands in a way that broke down Jewish insularity, while Christian and Muslim Arabs, using different sorts of tactics, failed to make headway. In the United States, Krebs explains how African Americans' challenge to segregation and other forms of discrimination in the military went only so far in addressing their broader disadvantaged position in society as a whole. Fighting for Rights is a must-read for those interested in state-minority relations, as well as those concerned about civil-military relations.""This book raises and answers the question: When and how does military service shape struggles by minorities to gain full citizenship rights within democratic states? Fighting for Rights is well-written and makes a unique and interesting contribution to our understanding of the relationship between military service and citizenship status." -- James Burk, Texas A&M University
£55.80
Cornell University Press Citizens without Shelter
Book SynopsisOne of the most troubling aspects of the politics of homelessness, Leonard C. Feldman contends, is the reduction of the homeless to what Hannah Arendt calls "the abstract nakedness of humanity" and what Giorgio Agamben terms "bare life." Feldman...Trade ReviewCitizens without Shelter traces the development of homelessness policy by analyzing local regulations and their judicial challenges. Leonard Feldman argues that cities and the courts are now criminalizing the very activities that homeless citizens must carry out in order to live. He also explores the changing definitions of 'the public sphere,' 'citizenship,' and 'home' in political philosophy, and how the interaction among these definitions has had an impact on the evolution of homelessness regulations. * Political Science Quarterly *Feldman provides a thoughtful and nuanced examination of the cultural messages that undergird the wide range of arguments that structure both national and local debates in the United States over appropriate public responses to homelessness.... This extremely interesting work is highly recommended to anyone interested in the politics of homelessness or, more broadly, in the development of the 'frames' that both organize and become the grounds for contestation in public policy debates. -- D. R. Imig, University of Memphis * Choice *In Citizens without Shelter, Leonard Feldman writes about homelessness and about those who write about the homeless.... He argues—correctly, I believe—that the homeless typically are excluded from democratic politics. -- Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University * Perspectives on Political Science *
£22.39
Cornell University Press Ethnic Politics
Book SynopsisIn this timely book Milton J. Esman surveys a recurrent and seemingly intractable factor in the politics of nations: ethnicity. As the author notes, virtually no contemporary nation-state is ethnically homogeneous. Most address the political effects...Trade Review"Esman draws on a variety of conceptual perspectives, but employs them with a healthy agnosticism. His own approach is judicious and balanced, persuasive as an explanation of the sources and dynamics of ethnic conflict, while avoiding the pitfalls of ascribing malevolent and pathological qualities to ethnicity, or endowing it with transcendent moral value." -- M. Crawford Young
£29.45
Cornell University Press The Dissonance of Democracy Listening Conflict
Book SynopsisAlthough the role of shared speech in political action has received much theoretical attention, too little thought has focused on the practice of listening in political interaction, according to Susan Bickford. Even in a formally democratic polity...Trade ReviewThis is a lucid and intelligent book, Susan Brickford offers an account of democratic deliberation meant to show the political significance, as well as the interconnection, of group memberships and individual opinions. -- David Kahane, University of Alberta * American Political Science Review *
£23.99
Cornell University Press Unnaturally French Foreign Citizens in the Old
Book SynopsisIn his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected contribution to the histories of immigration, nationality, and citizenship in France and Europe. Through a study of foreign...Trade ReviewHistorians have, almost by definition, a fascination with transformations. Peter Sahlins is clearly no exception. Sahlin's superb new book on Old Regime France explores two related 'passages': one an alternation in personal identity regularly accomplished almost entirely through routine paperwork, the other a change in the relationship between subjects and the state that even the Revolution of 1789 could not fully secure. Together, he argues, these incommensurate transformations shaped what is meant to be French across the dividing line of the early modern and modern eras.... This book should become a standard work for students of French history and, indeed, for all historians concerned with how to write the history of immigration, foreignness, nationality, and citizenship before the age of passports, work permits, and border patrols. -- Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia * American Historical Review *There can be no doubt that this is a book of major significance.... Wide in scope, thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, and lucidly written, this work tells the story better than it has ever been told before and constitutes the most substantial integral history of early modern French naturalization and citizenship to date. -- Thomas E. Kaiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock * H-France *This is a detailed, meticulous study that should shift the paradigms of the study of citizenship and nationality. * Choice *This book, destined to be a classic, raises important questions on the nature of the absolute and revolutionary state and on the citizenship revolution that Sahlins dates to the 1750s. The contradictions inherent in the absolute state are illuminated in the jostling between fiscal imperatives and commercial interests and in the contest between international public law and private civil law.... Grounded in the archives, this magisterial work sits at the intersection of legal, social, and political history but does not neglect the international dimensions. This book will appeal to professional historians in a number of fields. Case studies from the archives enliven the book as clerics struggle for benefices, some of the Protestant diaspora seek inheritances, lawyers construct legal fictions, the desperate resort to lies, diplomats deal with the intended and unintended results of international agreements, kings assert their authority, and revolutionaries debate the meaning of citizenship. -- Linda Frey, University of Montana * History *
£40.50
University of Toronto Press Citizenship in Transformation in Canada
Book SynopsisContributors argue persuasively that since conceptions of democratic citizenship are changing, so too should operational definitions of citizenship education.
£68.85
University of Toronto Press Tending the Gardens of Citizenship
Book SynopsisThis book marks a serious advancement in the study of Canadian social history, critical analysis of child welfare, and governmentality studies in social work.Trade ReviewTending the Gardens of Citizenship clearly advances the narrative of child welfare in Canada. A distinctive contribution it makes is the rigorous intellectual approach to the technologies of social welfare, and Chen's analysis of the interplay between technique, power, metaphor, and prescriptive practice is brilliant.' Ken Moffatt, School of Social Work, Ryerson University 'Tending the Gardens of Citizenship offers a great deal to the reader. It is accessibly written, rich in historical documentary detail, and enlightening in its use of deconstructive techniques. The issues Chen addresses from a comparative historical perspective are critical to debate today on child welfare in many countries. This is a major contribution to the field.' Peter Leonard, School of Social Work, McGill University
£47.70
Stanford University Press Righting a Wrong Japanese Americans and the
Book SynopsisOn August 10, 1988 President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act. This is a case study of the political, institutional, and external factors that led to the passage of this act.
£22.79
Stanford University Press SelfDetermination
Book SynopsisThis book compares and contrasts historical and contemporary Native American policy in Canada and the United States. The contributors include economists, political scientists, and lawyers, who, despite analyzing a number of different groups in several eras, consistently take a political economy approach to the issues.Trade Review"[The authors of Self-Determination] not only are out to set the record straight, but also present alternatives for Native Americans that can give them a better life than exists today on the reservation... For those who believe that Native Americans really do deserve better than the myths of communalism, this is a book worth reading."—The Freeman"This interesting book provides material for demonstrating the internal contradictions of the 'property rights' approach to analysis of American Indian economics... To the extent limited assumptions capture part of humanity's characteristics, the examples reported in this book explore ingenious implications of their simple model."—Western Historical Quarterly"...well-written and thoroughly researched."—xEconomic Affairs"As Nobel Prize Winner Douglass C. North states in his short introduction to this volume, Native Americans 'deserve a better story' than generally is found in the literature, and in this book they get much more optimistic treatment than is generally the case. You do not have to agree with all of the arguments in this volume to benefit from its challenges to conventional wisdom and to appreciate the novel approaches that are part of the chapters."—Gary Libecap, University of Arizona"Thanks to this series of carefully researched essays, it's possible to get a glimmer of a far more hopeful future for the American Indian than today's sad reservation system, rooted in collectivist economics and stereotypes about Indian culture, can ever hope to offer."—Tom Bray, Detroit News"Starting with the history of early Indian institutions and moving through European contact, government intervention, and constitutional issues of sovereignty, Self-Determination drives home the fact that property rights—the ability to freely exercise choice over assets—is a critical factor in economic development. This book is an excellent achievement, and should have a huge impact on public policy in Indian affairs."—Doug Allen, Simon Fraser University"The most important aspect of human history has been the attempt by individuals to increase their sovereignty at the expense of the sovereignty of the state. Where this has been achieved and to what extent has depended on the institution of private property. This book is a substantive contribution to understanding the association between property and individual sovereignty in a particularly vexed historical context. It should be read by all but especially by leaders in the affected communities."—Michael Walker, Co-founder with Milton and Rose D. Friedman of the Economic Freedom of the World Project"In his introduction, Nobel Laureate Douglass North states that the history of Native Americans 'requires a far richer understanding of the complex nature of human cultures, and equally, of the fundamentals of economic and societal change than we have possessed' (p.1). Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans is an important step in that direction." —Edward P. Stringham, San Jose State UniversityTable of ContentsContents List of Tables, Figures, and Maps Foreword Introduction by Douglass North 1 False Myths and Indigenous Entrepreneurial Strategies by Craig S. Galbraith, Carlos L. Rodriguez, and Curt H. Stiles 2 Property Rights and the Buffalo Economy of the Great Plains by Bruce L. Benson 3 Native American Property Rights in the Hudson Bay Region: A Case Study of the Eighteenth-Century Cree by Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis 4 A Culturally Correct Proposal to Privatize the British Columbia Salmon Fishery by D. Bruce Johnsen 5 Customary Land Rights on Canadian Indian Reserves by Thomas E. Flanagan and Christopher Alcantara 6 The Wealth of Indian Nations: Economic Performance and Institutions on Reservations by Terry L. Anderson and Dominic P. Parker 7 Sovereignty Can Be a Liability: How Tribes Can Mitigate the Sovereign's Paradox by David D. Haddock and Robert J. Miller 8 Indian Casinos: Another Tragedy of the Commons by Ronald N. Johnson 9 "Doing Business with the Devil": Land, Sovereignty and Corporate Partnerships in Membertou, Inc. by Jacqueline Thayer Scott 10 Indian Property Rights and American Federalism by James L. Huffman and Robert J. Miller References Cases Cited About the Contributing Authors Index
£48.60
Stanford University Press The DREAMers
Book SynopsisThe DREAMers provides the first investigation of the undocumented youth movement that has transformed the national immigration debate, from its start in the early 2000s through the present day.Trade Review"Walter Nicholls tells the story of the courageous youth who 'came out of the shadows' to form an unprecedented social movement to challenge stigmatization and advocate a path to citizenship. The DREAMers is a must read for anyone interested in how these new Americans fought for justice and their chance at the American Dream." -- Leo R. Chavez * author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford, 2018, 2013) *"There is no doubt that Nicholls' careful work—while overwhelmingly dependent upon California DREAMer sources—which measures the epicenter of such activism, is thought-provoking and in its own way, transgressive." -- Michael A. Olivas * The Journal of Higher Education *"Immigrant rights may be the most important social movement of our time, and the young Americans known as DREAMers—whose lack of documents are keeping them from colleges and jobs—have incredible stories to tell. Just the kind of stories that, set in this vital context, make for a good book—which Nicholls has provided." -- James M. Jasper, The Graduate Center * CUNY *"This is the book on the transformation of undocumented youth into the momentous immigrant rights movement known as the DREAMers. Based on careful research, the book identifies and analyzes the unique elements that allowed this social movement to go from 0–to–60 mph in the span of a decade and in one of the most hostile xenophobic contexts. Walter Nicholls shows how this social movement's success relied on the importance of crafting voice and compelling representations, finding 'niche openings,' and building strategic alliances. Underscoring both the political and moral urgency of the movement, while offering judicious analysis of the social movement building process, this book represents the sociological imagination at its best. I can't wait to use this book in my classes." -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo * University of Southern California *"Highly recommended." -- James A. Cox * Midwest Book Review *"[This] book is necessary reading for anyone interested in immigrant rights and, beyond that, in cultural approaches to the study of social movements. Nicholls has written a captivating account of one of the most important social movements in recent American history in tremendous empirical detail. This book simultaneously introduces several fruitful propositions that can push the literature on immigration politics in promising new directions." -- Thomas Swerts * American Journal of Sociology *"The rich stories told in this book, particularly of the struggle and courage of the youths, will make readers ponder and question the effectiveness of existing immigration policies. An eye-opening and incredible story in its own right, this book also contributes to the literature on social movements, especially the formation of movement groups and the issue-framing process. It deserves a wide readership. Summing Up: Essential." -- J. Li * CHOICE *
£77.35
Stanford University Press The DREAMers
Book SynopsisThe DREAMers provides the first investigation of the undocumented youth movement that has transformed the national immigration debate, from its start in the early 2000s through the present day.Trade Review"Walter Nicholls tells the story of the courageous youth who 'came out of the shadows' to form an unprecedented social movement to challenge stigmatization and advocate a path to citizenship. The DREAMers is a must read for anyone interested in how these new Americans fought for justice and their chance at the American Dream." -- Leo R. Chavez * author of The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation (Stanford, 2018, 2013) *"There is no doubt that Nicholls' careful work—while overwhelmingly dependent upon California DREAMer sources—which measures the epicenter of such activism, is thought-provoking and in its own way, transgressive." -- Michael A. Olivas * The Journal of Higher Education *"Immigrant rights may be the most important social movement of our time, and the young Americans known as DREAMers—whose lack of documents are keeping them from colleges and jobs—have incredible stories to tell. Just the kind of stories that, set in this vital context, make for a good book—which Nicholls has provided." -- James M. Jasper, The Graduate Center * CUNY *"This is the book on the transformation of undocumented youth into the momentous immigrant rights movement known as the DREAMers. Based on careful research, the book identifies and analyzes the unique elements that allowed this social movement to go from 0–to–60 mph in the span of a decade and in one of the most hostile xenophobic contexts. Walter Nicholls shows how this social movement's success relied on the importance of crafting voice and compelling representations, finding 'niche openings,' and building strategic alliances. Underscoring both the political and moral urgency of the movement, while offering judicious analysis of the social movement building process, this book represents the sociological imagination at its best. I can't wait to use this book in my classes." -- Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo * University of Southern California *"Highly recommended." -- James A. Cox * Midwest Book Review *"[This] book is necessary reading for anyone interested in immigrant rights and, beyond that, in cultural approaches to the study of social movements. Nicholls has written a captivating account of one of the most important social movements in recent American history in tremendous empirical detail. This book simultaneously introduces several fruitful propositions that can push the literature on immigration politics in promising new directions." -- Thomas Swerts * American Journal of Sociology *"The rich stories told in this book, particularly of the struggle and courage of the youths, will make readers ponder and question the effectiveness of existing immigration policies. An eye-opening and incredible story in its own right, this book also contributes to the literature on social movements, especially the formation of movement groups and the issue-framing process. It deserves a wide readership. Summing Up: Essential." -- J. Li * CHOICE *
£20.89
John Wiley & Sons How America Lost Its Mind
Book SynopsisOn virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains the rise of a world of “alternative facts” and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.Trade ReviewHow America Lost Its Mind is clearly a book Thomas E. Patterson wishes he did not have to write, but one that needed to be written. From time to time, scholarship should be alarmist. This book is the response of a reasoned, thinking person to a cultural and political calamity that he and many others saw unfolding in slow motion."" - Keith Gaddie, coauthor of The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
£20.66
Louisiana State University Press Race and Education in New Orleans
Book SynopsisSurveying the two centuries that preceded Jim Crow's demise, Race and Education in New Orleans traces the course of the city's education system from the colonial period to the start of school desegregation in 1960.
£24.65
Louisiana State University Press Moving the Chains
Book SynopsisWe remember the 1966 birth of the New Orleans Saints as a shady quid pro quo between the NFL commissioner and a Louisiana congressman. This book tells the untold story of the athlete protest that necessitated this backroom deal, as New Orleans scrambled to respond to a very public repudiation of the racist policies that governed the city.
£24.65
Louisiana State University Press Breaking Barriers
Book SynopsisDescribes how the author made history in Baton Rouge by becoming the first African American to be elected to judgeships at three different levels of the court system. Judge Freddie Pitcher’s story of rising from ‘the bench to the bar to the bench’ is informative and inspiring.
£24.65
Teachers' College Press Equity Expansive Technical Assistance for School
Book SynopsisBased on the author’s experience leading equity-focused technical assistance centres, this book details approaches to partnering with educators and other stakeholders to eliminate racial disproportionality in special education.Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixIntroduction and Overview of the Book 1Part I: The Quest For Equity And Theory In Partnerships To Eliminate Racial Disproportionality In Special Education1. Disproportionality—A Cultural–Historical Problem in Search of a Cultural–Historical Solution 13 Meeting the Moment With Equity Assistance 13Sorting Through the Research: An Introduction to the Problem of Disproportionality 15Reading the Research: A Synopsis of What We Know About Disproportionality's Root Causes 18Disproportionality as a Contested Phenomenon: Illuminating and Obscuring Systemic Racism and Ableism 27Policy and Practice Approaches to Eliminating Disproportionality 30Researcher-Led/Research on Approaches to Eliminating Disproportionality 36Implications of Existing Research on Technical Assistance Approaches to Remediating Disproportionality 382. Technical Assistance as Cultural–Historical Activity 42 Enhancing Technical Improvements With Contextual Analysis and Application 47Considering Context in the Development and Design of Evidence-Based Practices: Equity Cannot Be "Implemented" 493. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations of Equity Expansive Technical Assistance 53PART II: Facilitating Critical En/Counters: The Application Of Equity Expansive Technical Assistance Partnerships To Reverse Racial Disproportionality In Special Education4. Equity Expansive Technical Assistance 61 Technical Assistance Organized by Duration and Intensity 61The Defining Elements of Equity Expansive Technical Assistance 66From Top-Down Expert to Critically Conscious Partner 67Expanding and Enhancing Technical Solutions With Contextual and Critical Analysis and Systemic Transformation 79Process-Based Conceptualization of Systemic Transformation Informed by Expansive Learning Theory 90Critical Tools for Encountering and Expanding Policies and Practices 93Revisiting the Goal of Equity Expansive Technical Assistance: Something for Everyone 1065. Equity Expansive Technical Assistance for Reversing Disproportionality 108 Equity Expansive Learning Cycle(s) of a Technical Assistance Partnership to Eliminate Disproportionality 109Step 1: Analyzing the "Dispro Status Quo" 109Step 2: Evoking Systemic Tensions, or Framing and Naming the Impact and Relationship of Racism and Ableism 120Step 3: Introducing Equity Resources as Mediating Artifacts, or Defining the Elements of Equitable (Special) Education, Curriculum, and Instruction 129Step 4: Equity Expansion of the Object Through Innovative Activity Models, or Expanding the Object to a Coordinated System of Equitable Education Practice, Policy, and Contributing Belief Systems 132Step 5: Testing out and Refining Innovations, or Engaging in Critical Praxis 132Steps 6 and 7: Reflecting on and Refining the New Activity Model and Disseminating the Model Through Distributed Activity Systems, or Distributing Equitable Practice 1346. The Florence Unified School District 135 Reframing Perceptions of Isolated Incidents to Understand and Remediate a Pervasive Negative Climate for People of Color 137The Primary Contradiction: The Epistemic Question of How We Can Have Two Truths 138The Double Bind: We Are Here Because We Want to Help/We Are Not Your Charity 140The Tertiary Contradiction: Seeking Resolution Through Trauma and Harm Reduction 142Refining the Activity Model: Who Does What, When, and How 1427. Representative SEA Center Partnership 145 Background for the Partnership 145Site and Participants 147How the Partnership Led to the Study 148Data Collection and Analysis Processes 148The Initial Object of Collecting and Distribution of "Best Practices": Seeking "Critical Friends" to Layer Equity on Technical Acontextual Solutions 149Artifacts and Contradictions Expanding the Initial Object of Activity: "Oh My, What Are We Going to Do Now?" 150Modeling New Solutions: From Technical Strategies to Transformative Asset Pedagogies 1588. Ongoing Cycles and Continued Vigilance 161 Implications of the Approach 162References 167Index 191About the Author 197
£34.20
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism Ordinary
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the involvement of ordinary women - black and white - in the antislavery movement. Drawing on letters, diaries and institutional records, Jeffrey uses the words of real women to illuminate the meaning of abolition in their lives, and the rewards and challenges of the commitment.
£32.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina At Americas Gates Chinese Immigration during the
Book SynopsisDevoted to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, this text explores the consequences for the Chinese and for the USA as a nation of immigrants.Trade Review"Lee addresses a multiplicity of issues and deftly weaves together several themes that, in the past, had been treated separately." - Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara
£32.36
Northwestern University Press Citizen of the World The Late Career and Legacy
Book SynopsisIn his 1952 book In Battle for Peace, W.E.B. Du Bois announced that he was a citizen of the world. This book chronicles selected chapters of Du Bois's final three decades between the 1930s and 1960s. It maps his extraordinarily active and productive latter years to social, cultural, and political transformations across the globe.
£33.96
University of Pennsylvania Press Up South
Book SynopsisUp South traces the efforts of two generations of black Philadelphians to turn the City of Brotherly Love into a place of promise and opportunity for all. Although Philadelphia rarely appears in histories of the modern civil rights struggle, the city was home to a vibrant and groundbreaking movement for racial justice in the years between World War II and the 1970s. By broadening the chronological and geographic parameters of the civil rights movement, Up South explores the origins of civil rights liberalism, the failure of the liberal program of antidiscrimination legislation and interracial coalition-building to deliver on its promise of racial equality, and the subsequent rise of the Black Power movement.The Philadelphia movement occurred in three stages. During the 1940s and 1950s, liberal civil rights groups in the city successfully campaigned for Philadelphia''s new City Charter to be the first in the nation to include a ban on racial discrimination in muniTrade Review"Matthew Countryman has presented us with a real treasure house in his history of Civil Rights and Black Power in the urban North." * Komozi Woodard, author of A Nation Within a Nation: Amiri Baraka and Black Power Politics *"Up South is deeply researched, original, and important. It will be impossible to write about Northern Civil Rights and Black Power without grappling with Countryman's powerful book." * Thomas Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit *"A marvelous book . . . of enormous accomplishment. It challenges historians to rethink the periodization of the civil rights movement and . . . forces us out of the southern success/northern decline framework for understanding movement politics." * Robert O. Self, Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *"Well argued, extremely well documented, and persuasive. . . . An excellent contribution to the study of how local black leaders reshaped civil rights in the postwar urban North." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Liberalism, Civil Rights, and Black Nationalism in the Urban North PART I. RACE, RIGHTS, AND POSTWAR LIBERALISM 1. Civil Rights Liberalism in Philadelphia 2. The Other Philadelphia Story PART II. A NORTHERN PROTEST MOVEMENT 3. Don't Buy Where You Can't Work 4. A False Democracy 5. Black Power and the Organizing Tradition PART III. BLACK POWER IN THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY 6. Community Control of the Schools 7. The Gender Politics of Movement Leadership 8. From Protest to Politics Conclusion Notes Index Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Public Discourse in America
Book SynopsisTaking a comprehensive look at institutional and leadership practices in recent public debates over a variety of hot button public policy issues, Public Discourse in America outlines how such conversations can be used to reintegrate our fragmented communities and bridge barriers of difference and hostility among communities and individuals.Trade Review"Substantively illuminating, this book casts new light on a range of important issues. Highly recommended." * Cass R. Sunstein *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Work of the Penn National Commission —Judith Rodin Introduction: Incivility and Public Discourse —Judith Rodin and Stephen P. Steinberg PART ONE. PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND DEMOCRACY 1. The Thinning of American Political Culture —Thomas Bender 2. Primary Tensions in American Public Life —Robert H. Wiebe 3. Deliberative Democracy and Public Discourse —David M. Ryfe PART TWO. CHALLENGES OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE: TALKING ABOUT RACE 4. Affirmative Action and the Culture of Intolerance —Christopher Edley, Jr 5. The North American —Richard Rodriguez 6. Sports and Public Behavior —Richard Lapchick 7. Performance, Debate, or Productive Conversation? Imagining an Exemplary Conversation on Race —Drew Gilpin Faust and Members of the Penn National Commission PART THREE. LEADING THE PUBLIC'S CONVERSATION: STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSE LEADERSHIP 8. Leadership in a Complex Democratic Society —Michael Schudson 9. Political Leadership in the Great Health Care Debate of 1993-1994 —Derek Bok 10. Part of Our World: Journalism as Civic Leadership —Jay Rosen 11. Modeling Public Discourse in Popular Culture —Neal Gabler PART FOUR: DISCOURSE OF RECONCILIATION: TRUTH, APOLOGY, AND FORGIVENESS 12. Creating a National Discourse: Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa —Alex Boraine 13. Political Apologies and Public Discourse —Graham G. Dodds PART FIVE: Thickening Public Discourse: Principles and Practices 14. The Principles of Public Discourse: What Is Good Public Discourse? —David M. Ryfe 15. A Paradox of Public Discourse and Political Democracy —Neil Smelser 16. The Practice of Public Discourse: A Study of Sixteen Discourse Organizations —David M. Ryfe 17. Lessons from the Field: Practitioner Perspectives on Public Discourse Programs —Jay Rosen and Members of the Penn National Commission PART SIX: CREATING COMMUNITY THROUGH PUBLIC DISCOURSE 18. Building Community in the Twenty-First Century —Joyce Appleby 19. The Myth of Academic Community —Don M. Randel 20. The University as Discourse Community —Judith Rodin 21. Creating Community in Cyberspace: Criteria for a Discourse Technology Project —Stephen P. Steinberg Epilogue: The Centrality of Public Discourse —Stephen P. Steinberg Notes Contributors Bibliography Index Members of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community Acknowledgments
£25.19
