civil society

Political commentator Arianna Huffington expresses her disgust with politics in the United States, and issues a challenge to average Americans to take action to restore governmental control to the people. Includes a directory of local and national activist groups.

"Listening to and respecting others' viewpoints is a key element to fair and honest debate. Readers learn how respecting opposing viewpoints is active in today's society, how it shapes the legal process, and how people can apply this perspective to everyday conversations"--Publisher.

What are core civic virtues? In this book, students will gain understanding of what civic virtues are and how they've changed throughout history, from the early Greeks and Romans through Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. The similarities and differences between civic virtues in the United States and in other countries and cultures are also discussed.

Provides an introduction to society and social systems throughout history.

" ... Americans--and the politicians who represent them--are overwhelmingly nostalgic for a better time. ... In The Fractured Republic, Yuval Levin argues that this politics of nostalgia is failing twenty-first-century Americans. Both parties are blind to how America has changed over the past half century--as the large, consolidated institutions that once dominated our economy, politics, and culture have fragmented and become smaller, more diverse, and personalized. Individualism, dynamism, and liberalization have come at the cost of dwindling solidarity, cohesion, and social order. This has left us with more choices in every realm of life but less security, stability, and national unity. ... Levin argues that this calls for a modernizing politics that avoids both radical individualism and a centralizing statism and instead revives the middle layers of society-families and communities, schools and churches, charities and associations, local governments and markets"--Dust jacket.

Reports on conditions in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, looking at the country's potential to become a world leader, and examining the factors that could keep that from happening.

Arianna Huffington's call to arms that challenges the average American to seize the government back from the special interests that now hold it hostage and restore control to the people themselves.

Analyzes what the author believes to be a serious decline of civility in America, discussing what has happened to good manners, why it matters, and what can be done to change things.

Examines Western government, the free market, the rule of law, and civil society and argues that these institutions are degenerating.