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Author | : Brian O'Connell |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780874519259 |
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O'Connell offers an action guide for citizen leaders and teachers--must-know information to help ensure that the democracy will last another century.
Author | : Michael Edwards |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 019933014X |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Broadly speaking, The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society views the topic of civil society through three prisms: as a part of society (voluntary associations), as a kind of society (marked out by certain social norms), and as a space for citizen action and engagement (the public square or sphere).
Author | : Howard A. Husock |
Publisher | : Encounter Books |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-09-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1641770597 |
Download Who Killed Civil Society? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Billions of American tax dollars go into a vast array of programs targeting various social issues: the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, chronic unemployment, and so on. Yet the problems persist and even grow. Howard Husock argues that we have lost sight of a more powerful strategy—a preventive strategy, based on positive social norms. In the past, individuals and institutions of civil society actively promoted what may be called “bourgeois norms,” to nurture healthy habits so that social problems wouldn’t emerge in the first place. It was a formative effort. Today, a massive social service state instead takes a reformative approach to problems that have already become vexing. It offers counseling along with material support, but struggling communities have been more harmed than helped by government’s embrace. And social service agencies have a vested interest in the continuance of problems. Government can provide a financial safety net for citizens, but it cannot effectively create or promote healthy norms. Nor should it try. That formative work is best done by civil society. This book focuses on six key figures in the history of social welfare to illuminate how a norm-promoting culture was built, then lost, and how it can be revived. We read about Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children’s Aid Society; Jane Addams, founder of Hull House; Mary Richmond, a social work pioneer; Grace Abbott of the federal Children’s Bureau; Wilbur Cohen of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; and Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children’s Zone—a model for bringing real benefit to a poor community through positive social norms. We need more like it.
Author | : Howard Wiarda |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 042998121X |
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Civil Society focuses on the processes and politics of dismantling "corporate" (state directed) economies and political systems in the Third World. Howard Wiarda explores how this separation would create a move toward civil societies of free associability and democracy, as well as the limits to and pitfalls of this approach. The book examines case studies from sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, and includes such critical countries as South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, and Egypt.
Author | : Vaughn Scribner |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2019-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479809454 |
Download Inn Civility Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive “city taverns” to seedy “disorderly houses,” urban taverns were wholly engrained in the diverse web of British American life. By the mid-eighteenth century, urban taverns emerged as the most popular, numerous, and accessible public spaces in British America. These shared spaces, which hosted individuals from a broad swath of socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminated the notion of “civilized” and “wild” individuals, and dismayed the elite colonists who hoped to impose a British-style social order upon their local community. More importantly, urban taverns served as critical arenas through which diverse colonists engaged in an ongoing act of societal negotiation. Inn Civility exhibits how colonists’ struggles to emulate their British homeland ultimately impelled the creation of an American republic. This unique insight demonstrates the messy, often contradictory nature of British American society building. In striving to create a monarchical society based upon tenets of civility, order, and liberty, colonists inadvertently created a political society that the founders would rely upon for their visions of a republican America. The elitist colonists’ futile efforts at realizing a civil society are crucial for understanding America’s controversial beginnings and the fitful development of American republicanism.
Author | : Naomi R. Lamoreaux |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2017-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022642636X |
Download Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Includes bibliographic references and index.
Author | : Don E. Eberly |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780847692293 |
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Noted scholar and activist Don Eberly details the history, achievements, and goals of the civil society movement. He demonstrates why civil society is crucial to the preservation of democratic values and institutions, and he explains why the concern over America's moral decay must be our major priority. Our society, argues Eberly, cannot thrive, and perhaps cannot survive, without strong social institutions, a vibrant moral order, and an active, intellectual grass roots dimension.
Author | : Jay Spaulding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2004-08-03 |
Genre | : Civil society |
ISBN | : 9780757511523 |
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Author | : E. J. Dionne |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1998-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815791133 |
Download Community Works Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
America is experiencing a boom of voluntarism and civic mindedness. Community groups are working together to clean up their cities and neighborhoods. People are rejoining churches, civic associations, and Little Leagues. And, at every opportunity, local and national leaders are exhorting citizens to pitch in and do their part. Why has the concept of a civil society--an entire nation of communities, associations, civic and religious groups, and individuals all working toward the common good--become so popular? Why is so much hope being invested in the voluntary sector? Why is a civil society so important to us? This book looks at the growing debate over the rise, importance, and consequences of civil society. E.J. Dionne puts the issues of the debate in perspective and explains the deep-rooted developments that are reflected in civil society's revival. Alan Wolfe and Jean Bethke Elshtain discuss reasons why the idea of a civil society is important today. Theda Skocpol and William A. Schambra offer two opposing viewpoints on where successful voluntary civic action originates--nationally or at the local grass roots. John J. DiIulio Jr. shines a light on the success of faith-based programs in the inner-city, and Bruce Katz studies the problems caused by concentrated poverty in those same neighborhoods. Jane Eisner underscores the extent to which the volunteer sector needs organization and support to effectively complete its work. Other contributors include Bill Bradley, William A. Galston, and Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Author | : Don E. Eberly |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780847697199 |
Download The Essential Civil Society Reader Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Around the world politicians and intellectuals seek to restore civil society by cultivating stronger public ethics and social institutions. This text presents classic writings of leading scholars and organizers who have brought the civil society debate to the forefront.