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  • Lithuania’s Quest for Self-Determination

    Municipal Responses to National Emigration

    de Egle Butkeviciene, Rimantas Rauleckas, Egle Vaidelyte, Jolanta Vaiciuniene, Paulina Budryte, Thomas A. Bryer ...
    Series series Democratic Dilemmas and Policy Responsiveness
    Self-determination in the European Union rests on the strength and skills of a country’s representatives to manage and leverage relationships with other nations, and for individuals it rests on the ability to use autonomy and freedom wisely. To flourish, an individual must consciously determine their own path. Similarly, we can say a country can flourish. Self-determinism for a country is ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Integrating Community Engagement in Public Affairs Education

    Solutions for Professors Working in Divisive Environments

    de Thomas Andrew Bryer ...
    Series series Routledge Public Affairs Education
    Community engaged universities prepare students to participate in societies in ways that are inclusive. This book presents a coherent argument for higher education institutions not only to encourage students to engage in their communities, but also to develop themselves as community engaged institutions. Analyzing the design and implementation of community engaged teaching and learning practices, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Volunteers in the Parks

    Tensions, Challenges and Opportunities in the National Park Service

    de Thomas Andrew Bryer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume provides an in-depth, qualitative analysis of volunteers and volunteerism in the U.S. National Parks Service (NPS). Over the course of the 50+-year history of the Volunteers-in-Parks (VIP) program, there has been no systematic research undertaken about the history or impact of volunteers serving in parks. This book corrects this deficiency, filling a large gap in the scholarly ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Poor Participation

    Fighting the Wars on Poverty and Impoverished Citizenship

    de Sofia Prysmakova-Rivera, Thomas A. Bryer ...
    Series series Democratic Dilemmas and Policy Responsiveness
    This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is that decisions made about those living in poverty or near-poverty are illegitimate, inadvisable, and non-responsive to the needs and interests of the poor if the poor themselves are not involved in the decision-making process. Inside this intuitively ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Higher Education beyond Job Creation

    Universities, Citizenship, and Community

    de Thomas A. Bryer ...
    Higher education in the United States and elsewhere is being forced to respond to several disparate social and economic pressures: social trust and connectedness is down, empathy across citizens is deteriorating, political awareness and participation are low, and job prospects and financial security are sobering for many citizens, even the college educated. The response to these pressures is not ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Citizenship and Ethics

    From the Neighborhood to the City, Country to the World

    de Seongho An, Mahabat Baimyrzaeva, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff, Stephanie Britt, Thomas A. Bryer, Chao Guo, Alfred Tat-Kei Ho, So Hee Jeon, Pradeep Chandra Kathi0, Pamela S. Medina1, Jack W. Meek2, Mehnaaz Momen3, Vishnu Muraleedharan4, Cristian Pliscoff5, Daniel Seigler6, Wanzhu Shi7, Ruechagorn Trairatananusorn8, Feng Wang9, Weijie Wang0, Michael Yusheng Wu1, Wai-Hang Yee2 ...
    Series series Democratic Dilemmas and Policy Responsiveness
    Scholarship is a multi-generational collective enterprise with a commitment to advancing knowledge, inspiring reflection, and facilitating stronger neighborhoods, cities and countries. This book explicitly adopts this lens as a recognition of the contributions of Prof. Terry Cooper to scholarship and practice, and as a mechanism to connect the past to the present and ultimately the future of ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • National Service and Volunteerism

    Achieving Impact in Our Communities

    de Maria-Elena Augustin, Emily Bachman, Koen P. R. Bartels, Jodi Benenson, Valerie Beynon, Julia Carboni, Guido Cozzi, Na’eem H. Crawford-Muhammad, Todd Joseph Currie, Deborah Jospin, Jay D. Jurie0, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg1, Jessica Kleinberger2, Karen Kopera-Frye3, Stephanie Krick4, Myung J. Lee5, Katharine Leonberger6, Peter Levine7, Noemi Mantovan8, Rita Massey9, Sarah Maxwell0, Connie L. McNeely1, Tadar Muhammad2, Alice Neira3, Dorothy Norris-Tirrell4, Shelby Olson5, Jarrad Plante6, Cristian Pliscoff7, Shirley Sagawa8, Sara Strickhouser9, Dennis O. Torbett0, Norma Winston1, James D. Wright2, Thomas A. Bryer3 ...
    National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Promoting Civic Health Through University-Community Partnerships

    Global Contexts and Experiences

    de Thomas Andrew Bryer, Cristian Pliscoff, Ashley Wilt Connors ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    “In their comparative analysis of several universities from different parts of the world, the authors make a case for the critical roles that higher education institutions can play in building the civic framework in a society.”—Kyle Farmbry, Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University-Newark, United States“By defining community, discussing how universities are often ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Teaching Democratic Ideals to Public Affairs Students

    Findings and Reflections from Diverse Course Designs

    Edición de Thomas Andrew Bryer, Timothy J. Shaffer ...
    Series series Routledge Public Affairs Education
    Contemporary public policy challenges are increasingly called “wicked problems,” or problems that cannot be solved by one sector or one agency of government alone. Solutions to wicked problems often further require the recognition and acceptance of tradeoffs or drawbacks, which might include a cost or sacrifice for the whole of society or a subsection of society. Based on the premise that ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Social Media for Government

    Theory and Practice

    Edición de Staci Zavattaro, Thomas Bryer ...
    Social media is playing a growing role within public administration, and with it, there is an increasing need to understand the connection between social media research and what actually takes place in government agencies. Most of the existing books on the topic are scholarly in nature, often leaving out the vital theory-practice connection. This book joins theory with practice within the public ... Leer más

    $224.99 USD

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  • Public Sociology

    Research, Action, and Change

    de Gwendolyn Nyden, Leslie Hossfeld, Philip W. Nyden ...
    This timely resource, written by a team of authors who are working at the forefront of the public sociology movement, provides a contemporary analysis of public sociology. The book highlights a variety of ways in which sociology brings about social change in community settings, assists nonprofit and social service organizations in their work, and influences policy at the local, regional, and ... Leer más

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  • Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers

    de Ibrahim Sirkeci ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers are becoming increasingly common in today's globalizing and fast moving world of business. This book presents a fresh perspective focusing on the transnational character of organizations and firms while underlining the importance of the transnationality of marketing strategies for success. At the same time, it introduces the novel concepts of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD