Search Results for civil

... entered civil society to address the problems created by industrialization, formed social reform movements, built institutions to pursue a social justice agenda, and demanded that the government take an active role in solving public problems. Their civic engagement built on and created social capital...

...Geoffrey Kurtz Pierre Rosanvallon , Democracy Past and Future , ed. Samuel Moyn , New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 , 294 pp. Pierre Rosanvallon , The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution , trans. Arthur Goldhammer , Cambridge...

... run the gamut from parliamentarism to armed self-defense. © 2019 Caucus for a New Political Science 2019 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2019, VOL. 41, NO.4, 622-653 httpsdoLorg/10.1080/07393148.2019.1686735 ARTICLE Marxist Political Theory, Diversity of Tactics, and the Doctrine of the Long Civil War...

...August H. Nimtz Abstract Nonviolent mass protests are often considered as having been mainly responsible for the two major legislative gains of the Civil Rights Movement half a century ago—the 1964 Civil Rights Act (CRA) and the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA). In this article, I argue...

... © 1981 Caucus for a New Political Science 1981 Organizing News Civil Liberties and the Left OLLMAN vs. UNWERSITY OF MARYLAND. The suit brought by Professor Bertell OIlman against the University of Maryland for instatement as Chairperson of that institution's Department of Government has been...

..., Number 2, 1998 185 Collective Memory and Dyadic Relations: The Different Qualities of Power in the Interaction of Democratic States and Civil Societies* Andrei Markovits Department of Politics University of California, Santa Cruz Simon Reich Department of Political Science University of Pittsburgh...

...Aaron Quinn Weinstein Abstract Over the last thirty years religious and political polarization has not only created the Religious Right, but a Secular Left. These changes have had a profound and underappreciated influence upon civil religious life in the United States. This article lays out...

... 1955 and 1970, the origins of the “liberal media” emerge during the civil rights movement. I focus on the role of racism, white supremacy, and resentment toward Black liberation and civil rights in the development of conservative critiques of the press, shining light on the past to illuminate...

... , 1988 .) © 1991 Caucus for a New Political Science 1991 Carl Swidoski Civil Liberties, Repression and the Law Richard Polenberg: Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech (New York: Viking Penguin Inc. 1987.) Richard O. Curry. edt Freedom atRisk: Secrecy, Censorship...

...Lilias Jones Abstract The concept of "civil rights" is based on assumptions that do not extend to all lands within U.S. borders, including Native American reservations. A central policy tension exists between enforcing Euro-American "civil rights" and recognizing Native American sovereignty...

... in power, whil in Nicaragua the Sandinistas have been the opposition party since 1990. What impact have these transitions had on democracy, civil society, and the nature of women's organizing in the post-revolutionary period in each country? This article offers a critical examination of the notions...

...M. David Forrest Abstract The recent financial crisis in the US has stemmed, in part, from the persistent failure of political elites to effectively represent the poor. This article examines this failure, casting it as a matter of discourse. During the post-civil rights era, political elites have...

..., in tandem, is the most effective strategy to achieve leftist ends. © 2014 Caucus for a New Political Science 2014 New Political Science, 2014 Vol. 36, No.1, 1-31, httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2013.864897 Latin Alllerican Social Movelllents and aNew Left Consensus: State and Civil Society Challenges...

...Andy Scerri The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization: A Manifesto for the Future by Arran Gare , London, UK , Routledge , 2016 , 259 pp., $136 (hardback), ISBN 9781138685765 ; $42.46 (paperback), ISBN 9781138597396 ; $24.98 (eBook), ISBN 9781315543031 ©...

...William J. Nichols From Huntington to Trump: Thirty Years of the Clash of Civilizations , by Jeffrey Haynes , Lanham, MD : Lexington Books , 2019 , 252 pp., $39.99 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4985-7821-9 . © 2023 William J. Nichols 2023 @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 659...

... engaging in digital lawbreaking as expressions of their fundamental respect for the rule of law. Although this diagnosis highlights the partial overlap with conventional models of civil disobedience (which oftentimes similarly conceive of politically motivated lawbreaking as necessarily resting on a more...

...Elisabeth Chaves Abstract The Internet has been touted as a potential platform for a “global” civil society to assert itself and challenge the dominant forms of power, including the globalized market, multilateral institutions, and nation-states. This argument coincides with Nancy Fraser’s 2005...

... a negative dialectic arguing that both conceptually and materially “civilization” needs “the wild,” or “the wilderness” to justify its everyday existence but, instead, rethreads wildness and wilderness through the production of lifeforms necessary for its continued expansion. I motivatie this Lukean...

...Kwasi Wiredu Abstract One way in which colonialism injured Africa was through the rupture it caused in the integration of the civil with the political aspect of her social life. That integration was one of the strong points of traditional society. Indeed, in traditional life the distinction between...

... addressing the needs of the masses by building schools, opening access to credit, liberalizing the civil service and so on, approximately three years into its first term (five years) the PLP rulers started carrying out shady deals with foreign investors and casino operators, made the civil service...