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Author : Bill Moyer
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780865714182
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Bill Moyer and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.
Author : Bill Moyer
Publisher : Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Bill Moyer and published by Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizen activism has achieved many positive results. But the road to success for social movements is often complex, usually lasting many years, with few guides for evaluating the precise stage of a movement's evolution to determine the best way forward. Doing Democracy provides both a theory and working model for understanding and analyzing social movements, ensuring that they are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health, and globalization movements. Bill Moyer is the originator of the MAP Model; he and his coauthors combine several decades of movement experience.
Author : Josh A. Lerner
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262026872
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Making Democracy Fun written by Josh A. Lerner and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2014-02-21 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable progress (such as scores and levels), and engaging sounds and visuals? These game mechanics would make meetings more effective and more enjoyable—even fun. Lerner reports that institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and grassroots community groups are already using games and game-like processes to encourage participation. Drawing on more than a decade of practical experience and extensive research, he explains how games have been integrated into a variety of public programs in North and South America. He offers rich stories of game techniques in action, in children's councils, social service programs, and participatory budgeting and planning. With these real-world examples in mind, Lerner describes five kinds of games and twenty-six game mechanics that are especially relevant for democracy. He finds that when governments and organizations use games and design their programs to be more like games, public participation becomes more attractive, effective, and transparent. Game design can make democracy fun—and make it work.
Author : XanEdu Originalworks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593990121
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by XanEdu Originalworks and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy S. Love
Publisher : Suny Series, Praxis: Theory in
ISBN 13 : 9781438449104
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Nancy S. Love and published by Suny Series, Praxis: Theory in. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.
Author : Courier Custom Publishing, Incorporated
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781586922375
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Courier Custom Publishing, Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer Ball
Publisher : Living Justice Press
ISBN 13 : 1937141071
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (371 download)
Download or read book Doing Democracy with Circles written by Jennifer Ball and published by Living Justice Press. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore K. Rabb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113670468X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Making and Unmaking of Democracy written by Theodore K. Rabb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every citizen of the world, there is no more urgent issue than the spread of democracy. Democracy is what the WTO-protestors are calling for; it's the main concern of human rights advocates; and it's only long-term way to end terrorism. But how does democracy spread? What can be done to encourage and support. This remarkable new collection brings together some of the best minds in variety of fields to discuss the conditions that promote and sustain, or undermine and extinguish democratic institutions and ideas. Spanning political thought from ancient Athens to contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, the contributors develop an outline of how democracy develops. Several key factors emerge: Democratic transitions are always heavily shaped by the ideas and practices of past regimes (like tribal traditions in Africa), international political and economic pressure to liberalize (as in Asia) and current economic conditions. The quality of democracy is almost always improved by the elimination of religion as the center of the state, by the move from democracy as protection of the individual from the state to democracy as enhancer of rights, and by the progression from a focus on the individual to a focus on the community. Expansive in its coverage and fundamental in its significance, The Making and Unmaking of Democracy is a volume to learn from, argue against, and expand upon.
Author : XanEdu Originalworks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593990138
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Doing Doing Democracy written by XanEdu Originalworks and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501720961
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Democracy's Children written by John McGowan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy. Democracy's Children considers the historical trajectory that produced current intellectual practices. McGowan links the growing prestige of "culture" since 1800 to the growth of democracy and the obsession with modernity and explores how intellectuals became both custodians and creators of culture. Caught between fears of culture's irrelevance and dreams of its omnipotence, intellectuals pursue a cultural politics that aims for wide-ranging social transformations. For better or worse, McGowan says, the humanities are now tied to culture and to the university. The opportunities and frustrations attendant on this partnership resonate with the larger successes and failures of contemporary democratic societies. His purpose in this collection of essays is to illuminate the conditions under which intellectuals in a democracy work and at the same time to promote intellectual activities that further democratic ideals.
Author : Henning Eichberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317988132
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Bodily Democracy written by Henning Eichberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this process, however, the term of ‘sport’ has become less and less clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called ‘sport for all’ are non-competitive and derived from traditions of gymnastics, dance, festivity, games, outdoor activities, and physical training rather than from classical modern elite sports. This requires new philosophical approaches, as the philosophy of sport, so far, has been dominated by topics of elite sports. Based on Scandinavian experiences, the book presents studies about festivities of sport, outdoor activities, song and movement, and play and game. The engagement of elderly people challenges sports. Games get political significance in international cooperation, for peace culture and as means against poverty (in Africa). The empirical studies result in philosophical analyses on the recognition of folk practice in education and on relations between identity and recognition. The study of ‘sport for all’ opens up for new ways of phenomenological knowledge, moving bottom-up from sport to the philosophy of "the individual", of event, of nature, and of human energy. Popular sports give inspiration to a philosophy of practice as well as to a phenomenological understanding of ‘the people’, of civil society and the ‘demos’ of democracy – as folk in movement. This book was published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
Author : Michael A. Neblo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107027675
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice written by Michael A. Neblo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.
Author : Cameron D. Anderson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487588577
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book What is Democracy and How Do We Study It? written by Cameron D. Anderson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zooming in on one single research question - what is democracy?- this book highlights the unique ways that different approaches and methodologies grapple with developing answers.
Author : Stephen Stockwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740971065
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Political Campaign Strategy written by Stephen Stockwell and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is at once both a commentary on recent political history and a guide to effective political practice. A must read for politics watchers, activists, and students of politics.
Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016991
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Making Democratic Governance Work written by Pippa Norris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is democratic governance good for economic prosperity? Does it accelerate progress towards social welfare and human development? Does it generate a peace-dividend and reduce conflict at home? Within the international community, democracy and governance are widely advocated as intrinsically desirable goals. Nevertheless, alternative schools of thought dispute their consequences and the most effective strategy for achieving critical developmental objectives. This book argues that both liberal democracy and state capacity need to be strengthened to ensure effective development, within the constraints posed by structural conditions. Liberal democracy allows citizens to express their demands, hold public officials to account and rid themselves of ineffective leaders. Yet rising public demands that cannot be met by the state generate disillusionment with incumbent officeholders, the regime, or ultimately the promise of liberal democracy ideals. Thus governance capacity also plays a vital role in advancing human security, enabling states to respond effectively to citizen's demands.
Author : John R. Wallach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108534112
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Goodness written by John R. Wallach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Citizens, political leaders, and scholars invoke the term 'democracy' to describe present-day states without grasping its roots or prospects in theory or practice. This book clarifies the political discourse about democracy by identifying that its primary focus is human activity, not consent. It points out how democracy is neither self-legitimating nor self-justifying and so requires critical, ethical discourse to address its ongoing problems, such as inequality and exclusion. Wallach pinpoints how democracy has historically depended on notions of goodness to ratify its power. The book analyses pivotal concepts of democratic ethics such as 'virtue', 'representation', 'civil rightness', 'legitimacy', and 'human rights' and looks at them as practical versions of goodness that have adapted democracy to new constellations of power in history. Wallach notes how democratic ethics should never be reduced to power or moral ideals. Historical understanding needs to come first to highlight the potentials and prospects of democratic citizenship.
Author : Karen Brodkin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813539805
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Making Democracy Matter written by Karen Brodkin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a social movement a movement? Where do the contagious energy, vision, and sense of infinite possibility come from? And, what are the visions and practices of democracy that foster such transformations? This book seeks to answer these questions through conversations and interviews with a generation of activists who came of political age in Los Angeles during the 1990s. Combining analytical depth, engaging oral history, and rich description, this absorbing and accessible book will appeal to all those interested in social movements, racial justice, the political activism of women and men of color, and the labor movement today.
