Описание: At a time when participation in democratic governance exhibits a decrease among the less well-off and an increase of power among the elite, one big question concerns how to reverse this trend. Wood and Fulton have devoted this book to finding ways to build democratic participation by low-income and working families, and to create cross-racial alliances. Here s where faith-based organizations enter the picture. These organizations have been significant players in shaping health-care reform, financial reform, and immigration reform at higher levels of government, aimed at benefitting working families. It is a movement which directly addresses economic inequality, policy paralysis, and racial injustice in the United States. Faith-based organizing, the authors show, offers important lessons for an American public struggling to combine universalist democratic ideals with an increasingly multicultural reality in what will soon be a thoroughly multicultural society, as new immigrant arrivals and demographic diffusion spread diversity into settings that were once bastions of white subculture. Models for community organizing have been supplied over time by Saul Alinsky, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King, Jr. "A Shared Future" has a distinctly empirical focus on one of the most important sponsoring networks for faith-based organizations: PICO (Pacific Institute for Community Organizations), which shifted neighborhood-based organizations to congregation-based organizations. They achieved a high profile during the formation of health care policy that found its way into Obamacare legislation, and have also been an important agent for addressing racial equity. Wood and Fulton here address a new generation of faith-based community organizers, seeking to ground the movement in what they call ethical democracy, and fleshing out an approach to addressing economic inequality and political paralysis."
Автор: Guelke Название: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict ISBN: 1403912475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403912473 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict addresses the problem of establishing durable democratic institutions in societies afflicted by ethnic conflict.
Автор: Robinson Название: Gender, Islam and Democracy in Indonesia ISBN: 0415590205 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415590204 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6387 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Exploring the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, this book examines the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history.
Автор: Sasaki Fumiko Название: Nationalism, Political Realism and Democracy in Japan ISBN: 0415691524 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415691529 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23958 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Masao Maruyama was the most influential and respected political thinker in post-WWII Japan. He believed that the collective mentality, inherent in the traditional Japanese way of thinking, was a key reason for the defeat in WWII and was convinced that such thought needed to be modernized. In this book Fumiko Sasaki argues that the cause of the prolonged political, economic and social decline in Japan since the early 1990s can be explained by the same characteristics Maruyama identified after 1945.
Using Maruyama's thought Sasaki explores how the Japanese people see their role in their nation, the democracy imposed by the US, and the relationship between power and international relations. Further, Sasaki also considers what the essence of national security is and how much it has been forgotten in current Japanese political thought. The book solves the puzzle of how Maruyama, a teacher of political realism who emphasized the importance of power, could insist on the policy of unarmed neutrality for Japan's national security, and in doing so, illuminates how traditional Japanese thought has impacted development in Japan.
Despite his status within Japan, there are few English language books available on Maruyama and his thought on national security. This book therefore will be an essential resource for students and scholars of Japanese Politics and Political Thought.
Описание: In the Athenian context, racial citizenship emerged because it both defined and justified those who were entitled to share in the political, symbolic, and socioeconomic goods of Athenian citizenship. Susan Lape shows how citizen identity worked in practice to consolidate national unity and to account for past Athenian achievements.
Автор: NA Название: Waltzing in the Dark ISBN: 0312294433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312294434 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 5589 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study focuses on the social, racial, and artistic climate for African-American performers working during the swing era, roughly the late 1920s through the 1940s.
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