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Author : Deborah T. Giddins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Citizen Participation of Blacks written by Deborah T. Giddins and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard P. Thornell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Citizen Participation and Judicial Relief as Remedies for Blacks and Other Adversely Affected Minorities in Urban Renewal and Model Cities Programs written by Richard P. Thornell and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan LaVerne Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Citizen Participation and Solidarity in the Black Community written by Joan LaVerne Wood and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sidney Verba
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674942936
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Voice and Equality written by Sidney Verba and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-26 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book confirms the idea put forth by Tocqueville that American democracy is rooted in civic voluntarism—citizens’ involvement in family, work, school, and religion, as well as in their political participation as voters, campaigners, protesters, or community activists. The authors analyze civic activity with a massive survey of 15,000 people.
Author : Stephen C.W. Graves
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739197916
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book A Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America written by Stephen C.W. Graves and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical examination of the concepts of the citizen, citizenship, and leadership, A Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America: Leaders of the New School proposes to develop a prototype or model of effective Black leadership. Furthermore, it examines “citizenship habits” of the Black community based on their economic standing, educational attainment, participation in the criminal justice system, and health and family structure. It tracks data in these four categories from 1970 to today, measuring effective leadership by the improvement or decline in the majority of African Americans standing in these four categories. This book concludes that African Americans have negative perceptions of themselves as U.S. citizens, which thus produce “bad citizenship habits.” Additionally, ineffective Black leaders since the Civil Rights era have been unwilling to demonstrate the purpose and significance of service, particularly to the poor and disadvantaged members of the Black community. Contemporary Black leaders (post–Civil Rights Era) have focused primarily on self-promotion, careerism, and middle-class interests. A new type of leader is needed, one that stresses unity and reinforces commitment to the group as a whole by establishing new institutions that introduce community-building.
Author : George H. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Citizen Participation and the Public Interest written by George H. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fredrick C. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139448178
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973–1994 written by Fredrick C. Harris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study assessing black civic participation after the civil rights movement, Fredrick C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian D. McKenzie demonstrate that the changes in black activism since the civil rights movement is characterized by a tug-of-war between black political power on one side and economic conditions in black communities on the other. As blacks gain greater access and influence within the political system, black participation in political activities increases while downward turns in the economic conditions of black communities produce less civic involvement in black communities. Examining changes in black activism from the early 1970s to the 1990s, this tug-of-war demonstrates that the quest for black political empowerment and the realities of economic and social life act as countervailing forces, in which negative economic and social conditions in black communities weaken the capacity of blacks to organize so that their political voices can be heard.
Author : Robert W. Kweit
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135640572
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book People and Politics in Urban America, Second Edition written by Robert W. Kweit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Approximately 75 percent of Americans live in cities and surrounding suburbs, and the characteristics of those cities inescapably affect the quality of their lives. This book examines the extent to which these Americans use the political process to control the characteristics of life in their metropolises. In addition, this second edition revision places great emphasis on the role of political leaders, while recognising the interdependence between those leaders and various interests in the city.
Author : Alan A. Altshuler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Community Control written by Alan A. Altshuler and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey M. Berry
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815709275
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Rebirth of Urban Democracy written by Jeffrey M. Berry and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly romantic notion. Yet nothing is more crucial to the future of American democracy than to develop some way of spurring greater citizen participation. In this important book, Jeffrey Berry, Ken Portney, and Ken Thompson examine cities that have created systems of neighborhood government and incorporated citizens in public policymaking. Through careful research and analysis, the authors find that neighborhood based participation is the key to revitalizing American democracy. The Rebirth of Urban Democracy provides a thorough examination of five cities with strong citizen participation programs--Birmingham, Dayton, Portland, St. Paul, and San Antonio. In each city, the authors explore whether neighborhood associations encourage more people to participate; whether these associations are able to promote policy responsiveness on the art of local governments; and whether participation in these associations increases the capacity of people to take part in government. Finally, the authors outline the steps that can be taken to increase political participation in urban America. Berry, Portney, and Thomson show that citizens in participatory programs are able to get their issues on the public agenda and develop a stronger sense of community, greater trust in government officials, and more confidence in the political system. From a rigorous evaluation of surveys and interviews with thousands of citizens and policymakers, the authors also find that central governments in these cities are highly responsive to their neighborhoods and that less conflict exists among citizens and policymakers. The authors assert that these programs can provide a blueprint for major reform in cities across the country. They outline the components for successful participation programs and offer recommendations for those who want to get involved. They demonstrate that participation systems can influence citizens to become more knowledgeable, more productive, and more confident in government; and can provide more governments with a mechanism for being more responsive in setting priorities and formulating polices that closely approximate the true preferences of the people.
Author : Kay Lehman Schlozman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691203687
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Unequal and Unrepresented written by Kay Lehman Schlozman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How American political participation is increasingly being shaped by citizens who wield more resources The Declaration of Independence proclaims equality as a foundational American value. However, Unequal and Unrepresented finds that political voice in America is not only unequal but also unrepresentative. Those who are well educated and affluent carry megaphones. The less privileged speak in a whisper. Relying on three decades of research and an enormous wealth of information about politically active individuals and organizations, Kay Schlozman, Henry Brady, and Sidney Verba offer a concise synthesis and update of their groundbreaking work on political participation. The authors consider the many ways that citizens in American democracy can influence public outcomes through political voice: by voting, getting involved in campaigns, communicating directly with public officials, participating online or offline, acting alone and in organizations, and investing their time and money. Socioeconomic imbalances characterize every form of political voice, but the advantage to the advantaged is especially pronounced when it comes to any form of political expression--for example, lobbying legislators or making campaign donations—that relies on money as an input. With those at the top of the ladder increasingly able to spend lavishly in politics, political action anchored in financial investment weighs ever more heavily in what public officials hear. Citing real-life examples and examining inequalities from multiple perspectives, Unequal and Unrepresented shows how disparities in political voice endanger American democracy today.
Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195188055
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.
Author : William McKinley Harris
Publisher : San Francisco, Calif. : R & E Research Associates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Black Community Development written by William McKinley Harris and published by San Francisco, Calif. : R & E Research Associates. This book was released on 1976 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Derrick R. Spires
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295773
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Practice of Citizenship written by Derrick R. Spires and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 "Afric-American Picture Gallery" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass. Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harper's parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, the book demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.
Author : Sidney Verba
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226852962
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Participation in America written by Sidney Verba and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-01-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participation in America represents the largest study ever conducted of the ways in which citizens participate in American political life. Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie addresses the question of who participates in the American democratic process, how, and with what effects. They distinguish four kinds of political participation: voting, campaigning, communal activity, and interaction with a public official to achieve a personal goal. Using a national sample survey and interviews with leaders in 64 communities, the authors investigate the correlation between socioeconomic status and political participation. Recipient of the Kammerer Award (1972), Participation in America provides fundamental information about the nature of American democracy.
Author : Andrew K. Diemer
Publisher : Race in the Atlantic World, 17
ISBN 13 : 9780820349374
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (493 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Black Citizenship written by Andrew K. Diemer and published by Race in the Atlantic World, 17. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of the Mid-Atlantic borderland, Diemer shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics as it exploited the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiated the complex national, state, and local politics in which that concept was determined.
Author : June Manning Thomas
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Urban Planning and the African-American Community written by June Manning Thomas and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarifying the historical connections between the African-American population in the United States and the urban planning profession, this book suggests means by which cooperation and justice may be increased. Chapters examine: the racial origins of zoning in US cities; how Eurocentric family models have shaped planning processes of cities such as Los Angeles; and diversifying planning education in order to advance the profession. There is also a chapter of excerpts from court cases and government reports that have shaped or reflected the racial aspects of urban planning.
