Migration and Integration in Singapore (Routledge Research on Public and Social Policy in Asia)
Between 2000 and 2010, Singapore witnessed a huge influx of foreign migrants. The proportion of permanent residents in the total population increased from 7% to 11%, while the share of non-resident foreigners has risen from 19% to 25%. This was as much the result of the spontaneous movement of labour to economic opportunities, as it was of active policy direction by the Singapore government. The social impact, both beneficial and disruptive, of this movement was felt at all levels of society, an...
This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for power. Eschewing jargon and theoretical abstraction, Mervyn Frost argues that global politics and global civil society must be understood in ethical terms. International actors are always faced with the ethical question: So, what ought we to do in circumstances like these? Illustrating the centrality of ethics to our understanding of global politics and...
Mexico. Lo Que Todo Ciudadano Quisiera (No) Saber de Su Patria
by Denise Dresser and Jorge Volpi
This unique text uses game analogies to illustrate the political process, including the strategies, rules, players and outcomes which affect the process.
Transportation and Deportation (Interface Collection, Vol 15)
by Sharon Floate, Antonio Gomez Alfaro, and Elisa Maria Lopes da Costa
Exile has been a pan-European answer to the problem of malefactors since Roman times. From the age of Discovery it has also been a useful strategy for states to fulfil the manpower needs of the burgeoning colonies of the New World, Africa and Australia. This book brings together historical accounts of the impact transportation and deportation had on the Gypsy populations of England, Spain and Portugal. In the latter two countries the open rounding-up and explusion of complete communities may be...
The friendship between Motlatsi, former president of the National Union of Mineworkers, and Godsell, founder and CEO of AnglogoldAshanti, and now Chairman of Eskom, grew out of troubled times and deep mistrust. Their friendship survived setbacks and major challenges. Now these friends and proud citizens of South Africa, lay out in both inspiration and practice, how we citizenscan forge together a common dream and determination to transform our troubled country. Using personal stories about thems...
Young Citizen's Passport Online - 3-Year Licence - New Subscriber
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the longtime CEO and chairman of Starbucks, a bold, dramatic work about the new responsibilities that leaders, businesses, and citizens share in American society today—as viewed through the intimate lens of one man’s life and work. What do we owe one another? How do we channel our drive, ingenuity, even our pain, into something more meaningful than individual success? And what is our duty in the places where we live, work, and play? These questions are at th...
Whose Citizenship? Report from West Midlands Commission on Global Citizenship
The Media and Politics (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, #546)
This comprehensive reader offers a broad selection of classic and current documents, as well as analytical essays on current political issues. Topics include the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the war in Iraq, affirmative action, the Supreme Court's 2003 ruling on sodomy, the 2004 presidential race, and the Columbia shuttle disaster. In addition, policy-oriented readings appear throughout the text.Introductions to the selections help make even the most difficult topics, such as court cases, more acc...
Die Entstehung Der Landessatzung Von Schleswig-Holstein Vom 13.12.1949 (Verfassungspolitik,, #6)
by Sybille Waller
In Abhangigkeit von einer bestimmten historischen Situation und bestimmten politischen Krafteverhaltnissen entstanden zwischen 1945 und 1950 in Schleswig-Holstein drei verschiedene Verfassungsmodelle: Die -Vorlaufige Verfassung- von 1946 unter dem Einfluss der britischen Kommunalverfassung, der Referentenentwurf von 1947 als einziger Versuch in Schleswig-Holstein, eine -Voll--Verfassung mit den Grundsatzen einer demokratischen Wirtschaftsordnung zu erstellen und schliesslich die -Landessatzung-...
The Quest for an Ideal Youth in Putin's Russia II (Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, #115)
by Jussi Lassila
The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement "Nashi" represents a crucial case of a post-Orange government-organised formation whose values have broad support in Russian society. Yet, at the same time, in view of the movement's public scandals, Nashi was also a phenomenon bringing to the fore public reluctance to accept all implications of Putin's new system. The Russian people's relatively widespread support for his patriotic policies and conservative values has been evident, but this su...
Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement
by Lucas Walsh and Rosalyn Black
Rethinking Youth Citizenship After the Age of Entitlement provides a primer for exploring hard questions about how young people understand, experience and enact their citizenship in uncertain times and about their senses of membership and belonging. It examines how familiar modes of exclusion are compounded by punitive youth policies in ways that are concealed by neoliberal discourses. It considers the role of key institutions in constructing young people's citizenship and looks at the ways in w...
[The book] presents the fundamental structures, processes, and actors in the American political system and shows how these individual entities work both with and against each other to produce an effective, practical, and sensitive government. The text also emphasizes two important themes about democracy: the balance between majority rule and minority rights, and the relationship between self-government and the public interest. Students will find this information stimulating and valuable, allowin...
This book looks at the patterns and trends of participation in Indian elections since 1952 – the first elections held in independent India. It engages with debates around the nature of the multi-party electoral politics in India and its impact on the voting behaviour of Indian voters. The book uses extensive empirical data from the state and national elections to analyze the history and evolution of the country’s electoral systems as well as the challenges and safeguards for conducting fair ele...