Citizen Voices
Title | Citizen Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Louise J. Phillips |
Publisher | Intellect Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Communication in science |
ISBN | 9781841506210 |
A diverse series of studies across Europe and the US are presented, providing readers with empirical insights into the articulation of citizen voices in different national, cultural and institutional contexts.
Bringing Citizen Voices to the Table
Title | Bringing Citizen Voices to the Table PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 411 |
Release | 2012-11-07 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1118282515 |
This important resource offers seven field-tested strategies for public managers to help them maximize citizen engagement as they implement the President's Open Government Directive. The Core Strategies for Citizen Engagement are: Establish Links to Decision-Makers; Ensure Demographic Diversity; Create Opportunities for Informed Participation; Maximize Tools of Facilitated Deliberation; Discover Shared Priorities; Establish Clear Recommendations for Action; and Sustain Citizen Engagement. The book includes project and leadership case studies from major federal agencies that elucidate the seven strategies in the context of real-world issues and challenges.
I, Citizen
Title | I, Citizen PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Woodlief |
Publisher | Encounter Books |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2021-12-07 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1641772115 |
This is a story of hope, but also of peril. It began when our nation’s polarized political class started conscripting everyday citizens into its culture war. From their commanding heights in political parties, media, academia, and government, these partisans have attacked one another for years, but increasingly they’ve convinced everyday Americans to join the fray. Why should we feel such animosity toward our fellow citizens, our neighbors, even our own kin? Because we’ve fallen for the false narrative, eagerly promoted by pundits on the Left and the Right, that citizens who happen to vote Democrat or Republican are enthusiastic supporters of Team Blue or Team Red. Aside from a minority of party activists and partisans, however, most voters are simply trying to choose the lesser of two evils. The real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the quiet collusion within our nation’s political class to take away that most American of freedoms: our right to self-governance. Even as partisans work overtime to divide Americans against one another, they’ve erected a system under which we ordinary citizens don’t have a voice in the decisions that affect our lives. From foreign wars to how local libraries are run, authority no longer resides with We the People, but amongst unaccountable officials. The political class has stolen our birthright and set us at one another’s throats. This is the story of how that happened and what we can do about it. America stands at a precipice, but there’s still time to reclaim authority over our lives and communities.
Voices of the Death Penalty Debate
Title | Voices of the Death Penalty Debate PDF eBook |
Author | Russell G. Murphy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
"Through the statements of witnesses who testified at historic hearings in New York between December 2004 and February 2005, [the book] seeks to educate a national and international citizenry about capital punishment. ... present[ing] the essential facts relating to the death penalty and the major categories of debate over capital punishment worldwide"--Introd.
The Citizen's Voice
Title | The Citizen's Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Keren |
Publisher | University of Calgary Press |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Civil society |
ISBN | 1552381137 |
Michael Keren traces the political lives and messages of some of the twentieth century's greatest literary characters in this insightful and jargon-free book of literary criticism. He observes the infamous characters ranging from Joseph K from Franz Kafka's The Trial to Ralph from William Golding's Lord of the Flies to Chauncey Gardiner from Jerzy Kosinski's Being There and beyond while they struggle through their lives and world events. The Citizen's Voice is a refreshing contribution to civil society theory that makes a pioneering effort to cross the boundaries between politics, literature, and culture. A study of the human condition via literature this book expounds the key features of a good citizen while offering a perfect discussion piece for courses in political theory, politics and literature, and history.
Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance
Title | Citizen Participation in Global Environmental Governance PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Worthington |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317972732 |
On one day in 2009, in thirty-eight countries around the world, 4,000 ordinary citizens gathered to discuss the future of climate policy. This project, 'WWViews', was the first-ever global democratic deliberation – an attempt to enable ordinary people to reach informed decisions on and impact the global policy process. This book – which analyzes the experiences and lessons from this ground-breaking event – marks the beginning of a new kind of democratic politics, providing practical lessons on how to increase the impact of global deliberation projects within the media and on official policy processes. The authors explore important themes for participatory approaches from the local to the global: the role of deliberation within global governance methodology and practice participant selection; policy impacts engaging the media how policy culture affects deliberation uptake capacity building and knowledge transfer process evaluation content and argumentation analysis gender, race and class aspects. The global aims of the 'WWViews project', along with the opportunity to evaluate the same process in different national and cultural contexts, makes this a hugely valuable and informative study for all those interested in democratic deliberation and environmental governance from the small to the international scale.
The People's Verdict
Title | The People's Verdict PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Chwalisz |
Publisher | Policy Network |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Political participation |
ISBN | 9781786604361 |
Offers a study of close to 50 long-form deliberative processes in Canada and Australia.