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Author | : Robert Fisher |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2009-10-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0826516580 |
With the election of a community organizer as president of the United States, the time is right to evaluate the current state of community organizing and the effectiveness of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Since 2002, ACORN has been dramatically expanding and raising its national profile; it has also been weathering controversy over its voter registration campaigns and an internal financial scandal. The twelve chapters in this volume present the perspectives of insiders like founder Wade Rathke and leading outside practitioners and academics. The result is a thorough detailing of ACORN's founding and its changing strategies, including vivid accounts and analyses of its campaigns on the living wage, voter turnout, predatory lending, redlining, school reform, and community redevelopment, as well as a critical perspective on ACORN's place in the community organizing landscape.
Author | : John G. Matsusaka |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0691199728 |
How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. The solution Matsusaka advances is familiar but surprisingly underused: direct democracy, in the form of referendums. While this might seem like a dangerous idea post-Brexit, there is a great deal of evidence that, with careful design and thoughtful implementation, referendums can help bridge the growing gulf between the government and the people. Drawing on examples from around the world, Matsusaka shows how direct democracy can bring policies back in line with the will of the people (and provide other benefits, like curbing corruption). Taking lessons from failed processes like Brexit, he also describes what issues are best suited to referendums and how they should be designed, and he tackles questions that have long vexed direct democracy: can voters be trusted to choose reasonable policies, and can minority rights survive majority decisions? The result is one of the most comprehensive examinations of direct democracy to date—coupled with concrete, nonpartisan proposals for how countries can make the most of the powerful tools that referendums offer. With a crisis of representation hobbling democracies across the globe, Let the People Rule offers important new ideas about the crucial role the referendum can play in the future of government.
Author | : A. J. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008-09-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0743291484 |
The bestselling author of The Know-It-All takes on history's most influential book.
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Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1999-01-01 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0857861018 |
The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author | : Afrika Mhlophe |
Publisher | : Struik Christian Media |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1415340722 |
Afrika Mhlophe tackles the timely issue of leadership and how it can be misused in today’s society. He turns us back to the true definition of godly leadership, as defined by the Lord, reminding leaders that their purpose is to serve.
Author | : Ewa Atanassow |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009263781 |
This volume reinvigorates the study of popular sovereignty in theory and practice, illuminating the meaning and future of liberal democracy.
Author | : JOHN PIPER |
Publisher | : Inter-Varsity Press |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2020-05-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1789740363 |
Who is Jesus Christ? You've never met Him in person, and you don't know anyone who has. But there is a way to know who he is. How? Jesus Christ - the divine Person revealed in the Bible - has a unique excellence and a spiritual beauty that speaks directly to our souls and says, "Yes, this is truth." It's like seeing the sun and knowing that it is light, or tasting honey and knowing that it is sweet. The depth and complexity of Jesus shatter our simple mental frameworks. He baffled proud scribes with his wisdom but was understood and loved by children. He calmed a raging storm with a word but would not get himself down from the cross. Look at the Jesus of the Bible. Keep your eyes open, and fill them with the portrait of Jesus in God's Word. Jesus said, "If anyone's will is to do God's will, He will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority." Ask God for the grace to do His will, and you will see the truth of His Son. John Piper has written this book in the hope that all will see Jesus for who he really is and will come to enjoy him above all else.
Author | : National Municipal League |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Municipal government |
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Author | : Jonathan Mercantini |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781570036545 |
"Mercantini explains this rejection of British rule through the transformation of the "rights of Englishmen" into the "rights of Carolina Englishmen." He suggests that South Carolinians, accustomed to authority as slave masters, took the British idea that certain inalienable rights accompanied an English birthright and reinterpreted the concept in ways related to self-rule. These "rights of Carolina Englishmen" centered on local control of elections, representation, finances, and taxation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Almanacs, American |
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