English | 2022 | ISBN: 0197636721 | 265 pages | True PDF EPUB | 20.28 MB
Many nations that are rich in oil and natural resources are plagued by undemocratic politics, war and civil conflict, corrupt governments, and volatile economies. Scholars have pointed to a "resource curse" as a root of the problem: the notion that valuable natural resources are connected to serious social, political, and economic problems. Entirely missing from the story, however, is an understanding about the role of the public in oil nations--specifically, the attitudes, values, and ideals they hold about important social, political, and economic issues.
In Hydrocarbon Citizens , Nimah Mazaheri tells the story of how the discovery of oil dramatically transformed politics and society in the Middle East. He argues that the creation of oil-dependent economies cultivated a new type of citizen in the region: the "hydrocarbon citizen." These citizens hold attitudes, values, and beliefs about their governments and national politics that are very different from what is observed in countries that do not produce oil. Hydrocarbon citizens tend to view their governments as highly effective, generous, helpful, and responsive to the basic needs of society compared to the citizens of countries without oil. Hydrocarbon citizens also tend to be skeptical about the merits of democratization and more likely to believe that democratic governments are ineffective, unstable, and full of problems.

Growing Tomorrow's Citizens in Today's Classrooms: Assessing Seven Critical Competencies (Teaching Strategies for Soft Skills and 21st-Century-Skills Assessment Methods) by Tom Schimmer
English | December 26, 2018 | ISBN: 1943874727 | 331 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
Rapid innovation is transforming the way people think, work, and connect. For students to succeed today, they must acquire the knowledge and 21st century skills required for college and career readiness. Practical and research-based, this resource will help you design meaningful, relevant skill assessment and instruction that promotes student mastery of critical competencies, including collaboration, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, creative thinking skills, communication skills, digital citizenship, self-regulation, and more.

NHK - Kyiv: The Resistance of Citizens (2022)
English | Documentary | Size: 655 MB

Third World Citizens and the Information Technology Revolution (Information Technology and Global Governance) by Nivien Saleh
English | ISBN 10: 0230103642, 1349287989 | 2010 | PDF | 294 pages | 3.4 MB
This book challenges the widely held view that the information technology revolution has been a blessing for citizens of the Third World. It shows how the governments and corporations of the industrialized countries created the global IT regime by systematically excluding

Amaney A. Jamal, "Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All?"
English | ISBN: 0691149658 | 2012 | 296 pages | EPUB | 864 KB
In the post-Cold War era, why has democratization been slow to arrive in the Arab world? This book argues that to understand support for the authoritarian status quo in parts of this region-and the willingness of its citizens to compromise on core democratic principles-one must factor in how a strong U.S. presence and popular anti-Americanism weakens democratic voices. Examining such countries as Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia, Amaney Jamal explores how Arab citizens decide whether to back existing regimes, regime transitions, and democratization projects, and how the global position of Arab states shapes people's attitudes toward their governments.

Brexit and the Migrant Voice EU Citizens in Post-Brexit Literature and Culture
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003148357 | 229 pages | True PDF | 12.99 MB
Brexit and the Migrant Voice provides a platform for the perspectives of European citizens and migrants living and working in the UK by assessing their representation in British and European cultural productions (literature, drama, the media) and by foregrounding their attitudes, their fears, and their concerns about Brexit.

Angus Ritchie, "Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age "
English | ISBN: 0268105782 | 2019 | 202 pages | EPUB | 193 KB
In this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-right populism of billionaire Donald Trump, reveal fundamental flaws in secular liberalism. Ritchie maintains that both liberalism and this "fake populism" resign citizens to an essentially passive role in public life.

Andrea Geiger, "Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867-1945 "
English | ISBN: 1469659271 | 2022 | 352 pages | PDF | 35 MB
Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Andrea Geiger highlights the role that the North Pacific borderlands played in the construction of race and citizenship on both sides of the international border from 1867, when the United States acquired Russia's interests in Alaska, through the end of World War II. Imperial, national, provincial, territorial, reserve, and municipal borders worked together to create a dynamic legal landscape that both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people negotiated in myriad ways as they traversed these borderlands. Adventurers, prospectors, laborers, and settlers from Europe, Canada, the United States, Latin America, and Asia made and remade themselves as they crossed from one jurisdiction to another.

Peter Gumbel, "Citizens of Everywhere: Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit"
English | ISBN: 1913368076 | 2021 | 78 pages | EPUB | 180 KB
In 1939, as war loomed, Peter Gumbel's Jewish-born grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. But within a matter of decades, their grandson, appalled by the Brexit referendum, had become a citizen of the country they fled eighty years ago. How had it come to this?

Claus Offe, "Citizens in Europe: Essays on Democracy, Constitutionalism and European Integration"
English | ISBN: 1785522388 | 2016 | 512 pages | EPUB | 891 KB
This interdisciplinary collection of essays by a constitutionalist and a political sociologist examines how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate and effective constitutional arrangements providing for bonds of democratic citizenship. Exploring the political order dilemmas of capitalist democracies, the authors address moral and institutional prerequisites on which the deepening of European integration depends. The desirability of such deepening is currently contested, with the membership of some states (and their compliance with the spirit of the Union's treaties) at stake. The authors do not consider the 'renationalisation' of Europe to be a feasible (and even less so a desirable) way out of Europe's current malaise. Yet whatever the way out, charting it calls not just for the vision and imagination of political elites but also for the intellectual efforts of social scientists. With this book, Preuß and Offe contribute to those efforts. Key Features:* original insights on the nature of the European crisis* analysis of how fragmented societies can be held together by appropriate constitutional arrangements * how state sovereignty and federal structures can be merged* account of the moral prerequisites and resources of democratic polities* dilemmas of political order under democratic capitalism