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Author: John G. Mentzos Publisher: U.R.R. Publishing ISBN: 9780578227863 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 254
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Democracy is not just a set of laws and a government structure it's a collective consciousness. The collective consciousness of democracy arises out of human nature when called forth by group psychology and the social constructs and cultural artifacts of a nation. The appropriate collective consciousness for an effective democracy is one that yields culture and process that manages human diversity in equitable ways. But group psychology and the social constructs of a nation can serve as a countervailing force to effective democracy as well. To the extent that such elements create consciousness focused on producing inequity and perpetuating the conflicts that arise out of human diversity, the public consciousness needed for true democracy is lost.
Author: Great Lakes Consortium Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781499315639 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 480
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This book is published as part of our current “Building Grassroots Democracy in Minority Communities” grant with success stories connected to this grant. This publication also includes the results of our previous grant “Citizen's Legislative Advocacy in Minority Communities”, both supported by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of Citizen Exchanges, Professional Fellows Division. Our overall goal was on these grants to provide a professional development opportunity for up-and-coming and mid-level professionals from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to gain knowledge of U.S. practices in citizen participation and advocacy, engaging, minorities, and marginalized populations in civil society and politics, collaborating with community leaders to inform changes in legislation that make a difference in minority communities (incl. Roma, disabled, homeless, immigrant, LGBT) and build grassroots democracy. These goals were accomplished through two-way exchanges. U.S. mentors from the U.S. internship hosting organizations also were selected to travel for a reciprocal visit overseas. They had an opportunity to share professional expertise and gain a deeper understanding of the societies, cultures and the people of other countries in Europe. This citizen civic exchange promoted mutual understanding, created long-term professional ties not only between the U.S. and the European participants but also among the participants within Europe and within their own country, because most of them did not meet before this exchange. These programs also strengthened the capacity of our European partners and the European Networks. As documented in this book we accomplished our program goals as we were able “to teach democracy in minority communities” by exposing participants to diverse community organizing methods to engage citizens as active participants in solving problems in their communities. Altogether, this program impacted more than 5000 people in Europe and 3000 in the U.S. This people-to-people exchange created long-term linkages between the U.S. and Europe, within the European fellows, and enhanced the collaboration between GLC and its U.S. and overseas collaborating partners. We are continuing to work together on involving more people, providing more training, sharing effective methods and success stories to change lives and help communities to flourish.
Author: Michael Kaufman Publisher: IDRC ISBN: 9781856494885 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 230
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Popular participation, local democracy and grassroots organizing have become watchwords not only for social movements the world over but even for official development agencies. In refreshing contrast to the tendency to skate over the internal divisions and stratification that characterise all communities, this book asks the hard questions - about the power of central bureaucracies, the lack of local skills and organizational experience, the impact of national and transnational structures, and social divisions. Not only does the reader learn an immense amount about the limits as well as potential of community initiatives in the South, but the new social movements approach is skilfully married with resource mobilization theory to develop a more nuanced and inclusive theoretical paradigm. This can help us to understand and advance community-based forms of popular power in all their rich variety as one part of the solution to the development crisis.
Author: E. Gene Frankland Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN: 9780754674290 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 320
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This volume consists of analyses by country specialists on the development of green parties in 14 countries across the world. It investigates to what extent the parties have remained true to their original identity or have been transformed, and offers clues on broader questions about party types and party change in contemporary democracies.
Author: Yoshimi Yoshiaki Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231538596 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 357
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Grassroots Fascism profiles the Asia Pacific War (1937–1945)—the most important though least understood experience of Japan's modern history—through the lens of ordinary Japanese life. Moving deftly from the struggles of the home front to the occupied territories to the ravages of the front line, the book offers rare insights into popular experiences from the war's troubled beginnings through Japan's disastrous defeat in 1945 and the new beginning it heralded. Yoshimi Yoshiaki mobilizes diaries, letters, memoirs, and government documents to portray the ambivalent position of ordinary Japanese as both wartime victims and active participants. He also provides penetrating accounts of the war experiences of Japan's minorities and imperial subjects, including Koreans and Taiwanese. His book challenges the idea that the Japanese people operated as a mere conduit for the military during the war, passively accepting an imperial ideology imposed upon them by the political elite. Viewed from the bottom up, wartime Japan unfolds as a complex modern mass society, with a corresponding variety of popular roles and agendas. In chronicling the diversity of wartime Japanese social experience, Yoshimi's account elevates our understanding of "Japanese Fascism." In its relation of World War II to the evolution—and destruction—of empire, it makes a fresh contribution to the global history of the war. Ethan Mark's translation supplements the Japanese original with explanatory notes and an in-depth introduction that situates the work within Japanese studies and global history.
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Reclaiming Our Food tells the stories of people across the United States who are finding new ways to grow, process, and distribute food for their own communities. Discover how abandoned urban lots have been turned into productive organic farms, how a family-run sustainable fish farm can stay local and be profitable, and how engaged communities are bringing fresh produce into school cafeterias. Through photographic essays and interviews with innovative food leaders, you’ll be inspired to get involved and help cultivate your own local food economy.
Author: Steven Levitsky Publisher: Crown ISBN: 1524762946 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 321
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Comprehensive, enlightening, and terrifyingly timely.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Time • Foreign Affairs • WBUR • Paste Donald Trump’s presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we’d be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang—in a revolution or military coup—but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions, such as the judiciary and the press, and the gradual erosion of long-standing political norms. The good news is that there are several exit ramps on the road to authoritarianism. The bad news is that, by electing Trump, we have already passed the first one. Drawing on decades of research and a wide range of historical and global examples, from 1930s Europe to contemporary Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela, to the American South during Jim Crow, Levitsky and Ziblatt show how democracies die—and how ours can be saved. Praise for How Democracies Die “What we desperately need is a sober, dispassionate look at the current state of affairs. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, two of the most respected scholars in the field of democracy studies, offer just that.”—The Washington Post “Where Levitsky and Ziblatt make their mark is in weaving together political science and historical analysis of both domestic and international democratic crises; in doing so, they expand the conversation beyond Trump and before him, to other countries and to the deep structure of American democracy and politics.”—Ezra Klein, Vox “If you only read one book for the rest of the year, read How Democracies Die. . . .This is not a book for just Democrats or Republicans. It is a book for all Americans. It is nonpartisan. It is fact based. It is deeply rooted in history. . . . The best commentary on our politics, no contest.”—Michael Morrell, former Acting Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (via Twitter) “A smart and deeply informed book about the ways in which democracy is being undermined in dozens of countries around the world, and in ways that are perfectly legal.”—Fareed Zakaria, CNN
Author: E. T. Gaidar Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 9780295983493 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
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“What was the revolution of the 1990s for Russia?” writes Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia and one of the principal architects of its historic transformation to a market economy. “Was it a hard but salutary road toward the creation of a workable democracy with workable markets, a way for Russia to develop and survive in the twenty-first century? Or was it the prologue to another closed, stultified regime marching to the music of old myths and anthems?”
Author: Ganapathy Palanithurai
Author: Ganapathy Palanithurai
Author: John G. Mentzos
Author: Great Lakes Consortium
Author: Michael Kaufman
Author: E. Gene Frankland
Author: Yoshimi Yoshiaki
Author: Tanya Denckla Cobb
Author: Suresh Misra
Author: Steven Levitsky
Author: E. T. Gaidar