Author: Bill MoyerPublisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865714182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.
Doing Democracy
Author: Bill MoyerPublisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865714182
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.
Doing Democracy
Author: Bill MoyerPublisher: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Citizen activism has achieved many positive results. But the road to success for social movements is often complex, usually lasting many years, with few guides for evaluating the precise stage of a movement's evolution to determine the best way forward. Doing Democracy provides both a theory and working model for understanding and analyzing social movements, ensuring that they are successful in the long term. Beginning with an overview of social movement theory and the MAP (Movement Action Plan) model, Doing Democracy outlines the eight stages of social movements, the four roles of activists, and case studies from the civil rights, anti-nuclear energy, Central America, gay/lesbian, women's health, and globalization movements. Bill Moyer is the originator of the MAP Model; he and his coauthors combine several decades of movement experience.
Making Democracy Fun
Author: Josh A. LernerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262026872
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy. Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the best democracy can offer? In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable progress (such as scores and levels), and engaging sounds and visuals? These game mechanics would make meetings more effective and more enjoyable—even fun. Lerner reports that institutions as diverse as the United Nations, the U.S. Army, and grassroots community groups are already using games and game-like processes to encourage participation. Drawing on more than a decade of practical experience and extensive research, he explains how games have been integrated into a variety of public programs in North and South America. He offers rich stories of game techniques in action, in children's councils, social service programs, and participatory budgeting and planning. With these real-world examples in mind, Lerner describes five kinds of games and twenty-six game mechanics that are especially relevant for democracy. He finds that when governments and organizations use games and design their programs to be more like games, public participation becomes more attractive, effective, and transparent. Game design can make democracy fun—and make it work.
Doing Democracy
Author: XanEdu OriginalworksPublisher:
ISBN: 9781593990121
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Doing Democracy
Author: Nancy S. LovePublisher: Suny Series, Praxis: Theory in
ISBN: 9781438449104
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.
Doing Democracy
Author: Courier Custom Publishing, IncorporatedPublisher:
ISBN: 9781586922375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Making and Unmaking of Democracy
Author: Theodore K. RabbPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113670468X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
For every citizen of the world, there is no more urgent issue than the spread of democracy. Democracy is what the WTO-protestors are calling for; it's the main concern of human rights advocates; and it's only long-term way to end terrorism. But how does democracy spread? What can be done to encourage and support. This remarkable new collection brings together some of the best minds in variety of fields to discuss the conditions that promote and sustain, or undermine and extinguish democratic institutions and ideas. Spanning political thought from ancient Athens to contemporary sub-Saharan Africa, the contributors develop an outline of how democracy develops. Several key factors emerge: Democratic transitions are always heavily shaped by the ideas and practices of past regimes (like tribal traditions in Africa), international political and economic pressure to liberalize (as in Asia) and current economic conditions. The quality of democracy is almost always improved by the elimination of religion as the center of the state, by the move from democracy as protection of the individual from the state to democracy as enhancer of rights, and by the progression from a focus on the individual to a focus on the community. Expansive in its coverage and fundamental in its significance, The Making and Unmaking of Democracy is a volume to learn from, argue against, and expand upon.
Doing Democracy with Circles
Author: Jennifer BallPublisher: Living Justice Press
ISBN: 1937141071
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Doing Doing Democracy
Author: XanEdu OriginalworksPublisher:
ISBN: 9781593990138
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Democracy's Children
Author: John McGowanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501720961
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
How do American intellectuals try to achieve their political and social goals? By what means do they articulate their hopes for change? John McGowan seeks to identify the goals and strategies of contemporary humanistic intellectuals who strive to shape the politics and culture of their time. In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy. Democracy's Children considers the historical trajectory that produced current intellectual practices. McGowan links the growing prestige of "culture" since 1800 to the growth of democracy and the obsession with modernity and explores how intellectuals became both custodians and creators of culture. Caught between fears of culture's irrelevance and dreams of its omnipotence, intellectuals pursue a cultural politics that aims for wide-ranging social transformations. For better or worse, McGowan says, the humanities are now tied to culture and to the university. The opportunities and frustrations attendant on this partnership resonate with the larger successes and failures of contemporary democratic societies. His purpose in this collection of essays is to illuminate the conditions under which intellectuals in a democracy work and at the same time to promote intellectual activities that further democratic ideals.