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Community and Polity

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9780827605657
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Community and Polity written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1995 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An update and revision of the original 1976 edition. This study presents a two-fold discussion: a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community, and a suggestion as to how that community should be understood as a body politic, a collective unit that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective.

Community and Polity

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
ISBN 13 : 9780827605190
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Community and Polity written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by Jewish Publication Society of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Community and Polity is designed to serve two purposes: to provide a basic survey of the structure and functions of the American Jewish community and to suggest how that community should be understood as a body politic, a polity that is not a state but is no less real from a political perspective. This revised and updated edition of Community and Polity examines the transformations taking place in local community federations and in the countrywide federation movement, the decline of the mass-based organizations, the shift in the forms and organization of Jewish education, the changes taking place in the synagogue movements, and the problems of Jewish unity generated by intermovement competition. The book also looks at the new ambiguity in the sphere of community relations, the impact of demographic shifts on Jewish community organization, the institutionalization of new relationships between the American Jewish community and Israel, and the emergence of new model organizations to mobilize and serve the Jewish community.

Community and Polity

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Community and Polity written by Daniel Judah Elazar and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics, power and community development

Author : Meade, Rosie
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447317408
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Politics, power and community development written by Meade, Rosie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects, is shaping the field today. This first title in the timely Rethinking Community Development series presents unique and critical reflections on policy and practice in Taiwan, Australia, India, South Africa, Burundi, Germany, the USA, Ireland, Malawi, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia and the UK. It addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism, and the extent to which practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence. Addressing key dilemmas and challenges being navigated by students, academics, professionals and activists, this is a vital intellectual and practical resource.

The Politics of Community

Author : Adrian Little
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Community written by Adrian Little and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community is one of the most widely used yet also one of the most complex concepts in modern political thought. This book provides an introduction to the concept, showing how philosophical ideas can be used in political practice.The aims of the book are: - to provide a critical analysis of the historical use of the concept of community in political philosophy and sociological theory- to demonstrate the problems that emanate from the division between communitarianism and liberalism- to contrast the orthodox views on communitarianism of conservative thinkers in the UK and USA with more radical and egalitarian perspectives- to consider possible new ways of thinking about notions of community in relation to social and economic policies- to show the relevance of community to debates about democracy, pluralism, difference and the future of the state and civil societyWhile other books consider either the philosophical or the policy elements of community, this book is unique in drawing together these strands and demonstrating their links. As such it is an ideal textbook for undergraduate students, grounding abstract and quite difficult theory in contemporary situations

Community and the Politics of Place

Author : Daniel Kemmis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124773
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Community and the Politics of Place written by Daniel Kemmis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson envisioned a nation of citizens deeply involved in public life. Today Americans are lamenting the erosion of his ideal. What happened in the intervening centuries? Daniel Kemmis argues that our loss of capacity for public life (which impedes our ability to resolve crucial issues) parallels our loss of a sense of place. A renewed sense of inhabitation, he maintains —of community rooted in place and of people dwelling in that place in a practiced way—can shape politics into a more cooperative and more humanly satisfying enterprise, producing better people, better communities, and better places. The author emphasizes the importance of place by analyzing problems and possibilities of public life in a particular place— those northern states whose settlement marked the end of the old frontier. National efforts to “keep citizens apart” by encouraging them to develop open country and rely upon impersonal, procedural methods for public problems have bred stalemate, frustration, and alienation. As alternatives he suggests how western patterns of inhabitation might engender a more cooperative, face-to-face practice of public life. Community and the Politics of Place also examines our ambivalence about the relationship between cities and rural areas and about the role of corporations in public life. The book offers new insight into the relationship between politics and economics and addresses the question of whether the nation-state is an appropriate entity for the practice of either discipline. The author draws upon the growing literature of civic republicanism for both a language and a vantage point from which to address problems in American public life, but he criticizes that literature for its failure to consider place. Though its focus on a single region lends concreteness to its discussions, Community and the Politics of Place promotes a better understanding of the quality of public life today in all regions of the United States.

Understanding Community

Author : Peter Somerville
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847423922
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Community written by Peter Somerville and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding community is a highly topical text offering a clear understanding of policy and theory in relation to community. By examining areas of government policy, such as economic development, education, health, housing, and community safety, this book explores the difficulties that communities face and discusses new concepts such as community cohesion, social capital and community capacity building. Somerville challenges our understanding of community, both social and conceptual, and assesses the strengths and limitations of this understanding. This book is essential for students studying social policy, social work and sociology, and an invaluable resource for policymakers in community development, urban regeneration and allied fields.

Character, Community, and Politics

Author : Clarke E. Cochran
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817300864
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Character, Community, and Politics written by Clarke E. Cochran and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1982-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic political philosophy text, available again The revival of political philosophy has frequently assumed that a theory of human well-being and fulfillment is necessary, preoccupied with questions of epistemology and technical conceptual analysis. In instances where the nature of the human good is considered, the paradigm of autonomous individualism customarily dominates. In Character, Community, and Politics, Cochran moves away from these prevailing ideas to develop a communal theory of political order, helping to redefine a number of fundamental, but often neglected, ideas. Chief among them are commitment, community, responsibility, and character—concepts Cochran develops through discussions of authority, freedom, pluralism, and the common good. Drawing on a wide variety of fields, such as philosophy, ethics, literature, moral theology, and sociology, the author renews these concepts to outline a theory of human life and political order distinct from sclerotic categories such as conservatism, socialism, radicalism, or Marxism.

Politics and Community-Based Research

Author : Sarah Charlton
Publisher : Wits University Press
ISBN 13 : 1776143841
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Community-Based Research written by Sarah Charlton and published by Wits University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics and Community-Based Research: Perspectives from Yeoville Studio, Johannesburg provides a textured analysis of a contested urban space that will resonate with other contested urban spaces around the world and challenges researchers involved in such spaces to work in creative and politicised ways This edited collection is built around the experiences of Yeoville Studio, a research initiative based at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Through themed, illustrated stories of the people and places of Yeoville, the book presents a nuanced portrait of the vibrance and complexity of a post-apartheid, peri-central neighbourhood that has often been characterised as a ‘slum’ in Johannesburg. These narratives are interwoven with theoretical chapters by scholars from a diversity of disciplinary backgrounds, reflecting on the empirical experiences of the Studio and examining academic research processes. These chapters unpack the engagement of the Studio in Yeoville, including issues of trust, the need to align policy with lived realities and social needs, the political dimensions of the knowledge produced and the ways in which this knowledge was, and could be used.

Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community

Author : Jessica Berman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139430777
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community written by Jessica Berman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community, first published in 2001, Jessica Berman argues that the fiction of Henry James, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Gertrude Stein engages directly with early twentieth-century transformations of community and cosmopolitanism. Although these modernist writers develop radically different models for social organization, their writings return again and again to issues of commonality, shared voice, and exchange of experience, particularly in relation to dominant discourses of gender and nationality. The writings of James, Proust, Woolf and Stein, she argues, not only inscribe early twentieth-century anxieties about race, ethnicity, nationality and gender, but confront them with demands for modern, cosmopolitan versions of community. This study seeks to revise theories of community and cosmopolitanism in light of their construction in narrative, and in particular it seeks to reveal the ways that modernist fiction can provide meaningful alternative models of community.

The Politics of Community Policing

Author : William Lyons
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472089017
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Community Policing written by William Lyons and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002-07-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVCommunity policing, the author argues, does not necessarily empower the community but often increases the power of the police /div

Community Activism and Feminist Politics

Author : Nancy Naples
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136049665
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Community Activism and Feminist Politics written by Nancy Naples and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia, focusing on the complex ways that gender, culture, race-ethnicity and class shape women's political consciousness in the US.

Politics, Power and Community Development

Author : Rosie R. Meade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781447317395
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Power and Community Development written by Rosie R. Meade and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects, is shaping the field today. This first title in the timely Rethinking Community Development series presents unique and critical reflections on policy and practice in Taiwan, Australia, India, South Africa, Burundi, Germany, the USA, Ireland, Malawi, Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia and the UK. It addresses the global dominance of neoliberalism, and the extent to which practitioners, activists and programmes can challenge, critique, engage with or resist its influence. Addressing key dilemmas and challenges being navigated by students, academics, professionals and activists, this is a vital intellectual and practical resource.

Politics in States and Communities

Author : Thomas R. Dye
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Politics in States and Communities written by Thomas R. Dye and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1969 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively written, thought-provoking book which uses a clear, accessible approach to political conflict in American states and communities. It explores the what and the why behind current issues including illegal immigration, term limits, the fight against tobacco, campaign finance, sexual harassment, welfare reform, crime in the states, police and law enforcement, state correctional policies, the death penalty, abortion, affirmative action and more. This book compares the public policy and government management strategies of state and local governments, while focusing on the sources and nature of conflict. Coverage demonstrates how communities and states in America play an important role in the political life of the nation. For anyone wanting to learn more about State, Local, State and Local Government and Urban Politics.

Communities and Law

Author : Gad Barzilai
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024000
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Communities and Law written by Gad Barzilai and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical dimensions of community--nationality, social stratification, gender, religion, ethnicity, and legal consciousness--within the communitarian context and through their respective legal cultures. Gad Barzilai addresses such questions as: What is a communal legal culture, and what is its relevance for relations between state and society in the midst of globalization? How do nonliberal communal legal cultures interact with transnational American-led liberalism? Is current liberalism, with its emphasis on individual rights, litigation, and adjudication, sufficient to protect pluralism and multiculturalism? Why should democracies encourage the collective rights of nonruling communities and protect nonliberal communal cultures in principle and in practice? He looks at Arab-Palestinians, feminists, and ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel as examples of the types of communities discussed. Communities and Law contributes to our understanding of the severe tensions between democracies, on the one hand, and the challenge of their minority communities, on the other, and suggests a path toward resolving the resulting critical issues. Gad Barzilai is Professor of Political Science and Law and Co-Director of the Law, Politics and Society Program, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University.

Public Policy in the Community

Author : Marilyn Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230344097
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Public Policy in the Community written by Marilyn Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of community involvement and empowerment has become central to politics in recent years. Governments, keen to reduce public spending and increase civic involvement, believe active communities are essential for tackling a range of social, economic and political challenges, such as crime, sustainable development and the provision of care. Public Policy in the Community examines the way that community and the ideas associated with it – civil society, social capital, mutuality, networks – have been understood and applied from the 1960s to the present day. Marilyn Taylor examines the issues involved in putting the community at the heart of policy making, and considers the political and social implications of such a practice. Drawing on a wide range of relevant examples from around the world, the book considers the success of existing approaches and the prospects for further developments. Thoroughly updated to reflect advances in research and practice, the new edition of this important text gives a state-of-the-art assessment of the place of community in public policy.

Politics, Power and Community Development

Author : Meade, Rosie
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144731736X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Politics, Power and Community Development written by Meade, Rosie and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics, Power and Community Development, the first book in a new series, Rethinking Community Development, offers unprecedented critical reflections on policy and practice relating to community development in the United States, Taiwan, Australia, India, South Africa, Germany, Ecuador, Peru, and other nations. Addressing the global dominance of neoliberalism, the contributors consider the extent to which practitioners, activists, and policy makers can challenge, critique, or resist its influence.