• List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgments for the Third Edition Acknowledgments for the Second Edition Acknowledgments for the First Edition 1 Nine Stories 2 Who They Are and Why They Come 3 Moving: Patterns of Immigrant Settlement and Spatial Mobility 4 Making It in America: Occupational and Economic Adaptation 5 From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and Political Participation 6 A Foreign World: Immigration, Mental Health, and Acculturation 7 Learning the Ropes: Language and Education 8 Growing Up American: The New Second Generation 9 Religion: The Enduring Presence Conclusion Notes References Index.
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This third edition of the widely acclaimed classic has been thoroughly expanded and updated to reflect current demographic, economic, and political realities. Drawing on recent census data and other primary sources, Portes and Rumbaut have infused the entire text with new information and added a vivid array of new vignettes and illustrations. Recognized for its superb portrayal of immigration and immigrant lives in the United States, this book probes the dynamics of immigrant politics, examining questions of identity and loyalty among newcomers, and explores the psychological consequences of varying modes of migration and acculturation. The authors look at patterns of settlement in urban America, discuss the problems of English-language acquisition and bilingual education, explain how immigrants incorporate themselves into the American economy, and examine the trajectories of their children from adolescence to early adulthood. With a vital new chapter on religion - and fresh analyses of topics ranging from patterns of incarceration to the mobility of the second generation and the unintended consequences of public policies - this updated edition is indispensable for framing and informing issues that promise to be even more hotly and urgently contested as the subject moves to the center of national debate..
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• PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION-- PART ONE: THEORY-- I. JUSTICE AS FAIRNESS-- II.THE PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE-- III. THE ORIGINAL POSITION-- PART TWO: INSTITUTIONS-- IV. EQUAL LIBERTY-- V. DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES-- VI. DUTY AND OBLIGATION-- PART THREE: ENDS-- VII. GOODNESS AS RATIONALITY-- VIII. THE SENSE OF JUSTICE-- IX. THE GOOD OF JUSTICE-- INDEX.
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A Theory of Justice by John Rawls is one of the books by which our age will be remembered: perhaps the most important work of moral and political philosophy of the twentieth century, a classic to stand alongside Kant and Mill. Rawls argues that the correct principles of justice are those that would be agreed to by free and rational persons, placed in the 'original position' behind a veil of ignorance: not knowing their own place in society; their class, race, or sex; their abilities, intelligence, or strengths; or even their conception of the good. Accordingly, he derives two principles of justice to regulate the distribution of liberties, and of social and economic goods. In this revised edition the work is presented as Rawls himself wishes it to be transmitted to posterity, with numerous minor revisions and amendments and a new Preface in which Rawls reflects on his presentation of his thesis and explains how and why he has revised it.
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Governments around the world are turning over more of their services to private or charitable organizations, as politicians and pundits celebrate participation in civic activities. But can nonprofits provide more and higher-quality services than governments or for-profit businesses? Will nonprofits really increase social connectedness and civic engagement? This book, a sequel to Walter W. Powell's widely acclaimed The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, brings together an original collection of writings that explores the nature of the "public good" and how private nonprofit organizations relate to it. The contributors to this book-eminent sociologists, political scientists, management scholars, historians, and economists-examine the nonprofit sector through a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses. They consider the tensions between the provision of public goods and the interests of members and donors in nonprofit organizations. They contrast religious and secular nonprofits, as well as private and nonprofit provision of child care, mental health services, and health care. And they explore the growing role of nonprofits in the United States, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe, the contribution of nonprofits to economic development, and the forms and strategies of private action.
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• Figures and Tables
• 1: Education and Democratic Citizenship in America: Enlightened Political Engagement
• 2: Enlightened Political Engagement: Characteristics of Democratic Citizenship and Their Relationship to Education
• 3: What Links Education to Enlightened Political Engagement? Cognitive and Positional Pathways
• 4: Integrating and Testing the Model
• 5: Confirming the Enlightenment and Political Engagement Dimensions
• 6: Reconceptualizing Educational Effects
• 7: Education and Democratic Citizenship from the 1970's to the 1990's: Defining and Operationalizing the Measures
• 8: Testing Educational Effects Over Time
• 9: Absolute and Relative Education in Synchronic Studies: Application to Cross-Sectional Surveys
• 10: Education and Democratic Citizenship in Other Nations: An Exploratory Comparative Analysis
• 11: The Future of Education and Democratic Citizenship: Some Implications of Our Findings App. A: 1990 Citizen Participation Study Questions App. B: Weighting Procedures for the 1990 Citizen Participation Study Data Martin Frankel App. C: Basic Model by Race and Gender App. D: Creating the Political Engagement and Enlightenment Scales App. E: Nonrecursive Specifications App. F: Educational Environment and Relative Education Measures Jean G. Jenkins App. G: Documentation of the Over Time Data App. H: Documentation of Unreported Coefficients Bibliography Index.
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Formal education is crucial for creating enlightened and active citizens. However, despite an increase in education attainment since the 1970s, political engagement has not risen at a commensurate level. This text explores how and why education affects citizenship in these ways. The authors seek to provide answers by uncovering the causal relationship between education and democratic citizenship. They argue that citizenship encompasses both political engagement in pursuit of interests and commitment to democratic values that temper what citizens can do to win in politics. Education affects the two dimensions in distinct ways. Especially significant is the influence of education on political engagement through occupational prominence and position in social networks. Formal education orders the distribution of social position and connections, and creates an uneven political playing field.
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• 1. How Does an Idea's Time Come?
• 2. Participants on the Inside of Government
• 3. Outside of Government, But Not Just Looking In
• 4. Processes: Origins, Rationality, Incrementalism, and Garbage Cans
• 5. Problems
• 6. The Policy Primeval Soup
• 7. The Political Stream
• 8. The Policy Window, and Joining the Streams
• 9. Wrapping Things Up
• 10. Some Further Reflections: New Case Studies Thoughts About the Modeling Appendix on Methods: The Interviews-- Coding-- Case Studies-- Noninterview Measures of Agenda Status.
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This text remains the authoritative work on agenda setting and policy formation. This report on original research includes many dow-to-earth illustrations and quotations from interviews, creating enjoyable and informative reading for undergraduate students.
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Re-issued as part of the "Longman Classics in Political Science" series, Kingdon's renowned work features a new Foreword exploring the book's historical and enduring contributions. Kingdon's landmark work on agenda setting and policy formation is now offered in a Longman Classics Edition. This enduring work of original research, drawn from interviews with people in the U.S. federal government over the course of four years, examines the questions of how issues get to be issues for legislators. The book grapples with the questions: How do subjects come to officials' attention? How are the alternatives from which they choose generated? How is the governmental agenda set? Why does an idea's time come when it does? Hailed as one of the finest books about public policy- making, and winner of the 1994 Aaron Wildavsky Award, this book's rich detail and engaging prose make it a text that both students and instructors will savor.
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Anderson's essay shows how the European processes of inventing nationalism were transported to the Third World through colonialism and were adapted by subject races in Latin America and Asia.
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What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality - the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to the nation - has not received proportionate attention. In this widely acclaimed work, Benedict Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality. Anderson explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time. He shows how an originary nationalism born in the Americas was modularly adopted by popular movements in Europe, by the imperialist powers, and by the anti-imperialist resistances in Asia and Africa. This revised edition includes two new chapters, one of which discusses the complex role of the colonialist state's mindset in the development of Third World nationalism, while the other analyses the processes by which all over the world, nations came to imagine themselves as old.
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This volume offers the perspectives of such thinkers as Richard M.Merelman, Judith Torney-Purta, Henry M.Levin, Richard G.Niemi, Roberta S.Sigel, and Stanley A.Renshon. The book is divided into five sections. Part 1 relates political socialization to the functioning of democracy. Part 2 presents three different models for the acquisition of political attitudes and behaviours. In Part 3, the institutional context of political socialization is discussed. The role new movements play as socializers forms the focus of Part 4. And two concluding chapters in Part 5 extend the concerns of this book beyond childhood into responsible adult citizenship. "Political Socialization, Citizenship Education, and Democracy" can be used as a supplemental text in courses on foundations of education, educational psychology, sociology of education, as well as political science. It should be of interest to researchers in those areas, and social scientists in general.
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The best known of Plato's dialogues, "The Republic" applies the principles of philosophy to political affairs. Ostensibly a discussion of the nature of justice, it lays before us Plato's vision of the ideal state, covering a wide range of topics, social, educational, psychological, moral and philosophical. It also includes in the process, some of Plato's most important writing on the nature of reality and the theory of the 'forms'. Plato is critical of Athenian democracy, which had been responsible for the execution of his friend, and teacher, Socrates, and his political ideas, as expressed in "The Republic", started lines of thought which are still relevant today. This translation was first published in 1955 and revised in 1974 and 1987. The translator died in 1993.
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