Are political parties the weak link in Indonesia's young democracy? More pointedly, do they form a giant cartel to suck patronage resources from the state? Indonesian commentators almost invariably brand the country's parties as corrupt, self-absorbed, and elitist, while most scholars argue that they are poorly institutionalised. This book tests ......
What a Lifetime in Education and Psychiatry HasTaught Me About Restoring Our Future
In Rebooting Democracy, James Comer uses his lifetime of experience to explore how insidious racism limits America's quest to be a democracy of "We the People." Dr. Comer demonstrates how schools can provide a challenging curriculum and meaningful opportunities for social growth among many students from all backgrounds. He uses the Comer School ......
What a Lifetime in Education and Psychiatry HasTaught Me About Restoring Our Future
In Rebooting Democracy, James Comer uses his lifetime of experience to explore how insidious racism limits America's quest to be a democracy of "We the People." Dr. Comer demonstrates how schools can provide a challenging curriculum and meaningful opportunities for social growth among many students from all backgrounds. He uses the Comer School ......
Supporting Diversity and Enhancing Democracy in Education
Many of the nation's most eminent education scholars and researchers describe constructive and effective ways to respond to and resist the attacks on diversity and multicultural education and to support democracy. In this timely volume, James A. Banks and a stellar group of contributors push back on the national and cogent attacks on diversity ......
Supporting Diversity and Enhancing Democracy in Education
Many of the nation's most eminent education scholars and researchers describe constructive and effective ways to respond to and resist the attacks on diversity and multicultural education and to support democracy. In this timely volume, James A. Banks and a stellar group of contributors push back on the national and cogent attacks on diversity ......
Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy's Most Essential Freedom
An incisive examination of free speech's global decline and a framework for preserving expression in democratic societies. The Future of Free Speech confronts a stark truth: the right to speak freely is under siege. Once celebrated as a cornerstone of democratic societies, free expression is now met with growing suspicion and retaliation across ......
The Constitutional Choices That Shape America's Elections
Many Americans today are frustrated, unsettled, or just plain perplexed about the rules governing our democracy and who gets make them. Concern about rigged systems, confusion about the Electoral College, and uncertainty about who's in charge of it all have shaken our faith in elections as a reliable way to peacefully transfer political power in a ......
At a time when universities are being defunded by governments and vilified by ultra-conservative pundits, defining their value has never been more urgent For decades, efforts to quantify the value of universities in dollars and cents led to the corporatization of institutions that are meant to serve their students and society by creating ......
