A Civic Studies Journal
Featuring: “The Emergency Manager: Strategic Racism, Technocracy, and the Poisoning of Flint’s Children” by Jason Stanley “Laudato Si’, Civic Studies, and the Future of Democracy” by Harry C. Boyte “Paradoxes of Public Participation in Climate Change Governance” by Leah Sprain “The Impact of Ghanaian Peacekeeping on Domestic Civil-Military Relations” by Daniel H. Levine “Articulation and …
Our judges played the games, and made their decisions. There were several strong contenders in every category. Each of the winners has been invited to this year’s Frontiers of Democracy Conference, where we’ll be showcasing their efforts.
The Civic Games Committee (Daniel Levine, Joshua Miller, and Sarah Shugars), with the support of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, are proud to announce the 2017 Civic Games contest, a design competition for analog games that seek to promote the understanding and/or practice of good citizenship! The contest starts from two fundamental …
Education is facing a crisis: it is increasingly divorced from efficacious citizenship. This crisis is linked to the widely felt crisis in democracy itself, understood not only as a system of formal governance but as a way of life which sustains and enhances civic agency—the individual and collective capacity for meaningful social action. To address …
We are pleased to announce that The Good Society will be moving to a new home at the University of Minnesota, where it will be housed in the Dean’s Office of the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD). As of the first issue of 2017 the editorship will pass to Dr. Trygve Throntveit, Dean’s Fellow …
Check out friend of and contributor to the journal Dr. Joe Oppenheimer share some thoughts on Rawls via “The Scholar’s Chair”. Prof. Oppenheimer’s own blog is linked here.
Conversations on Participatory Democracy Innovative democratic professionals are encouraging greater participation in some of our most fundamental institutions, yet what they are doing is rarely the focus of political theory, social science research, or what politicians talk about when they are talking about renewing American democracy. The conversations in this series aim to shed light …
Conversations on Participatory Democracy Innovative democratic professionals are encouraging greater participation in some of our most fundamental institutions, yet what they are doing is rarely the focus of political theory, social science research, or what politicians talk about when they are talking about renewing American democracy. The conversations in this series aim to shed light …
Conversations on Participatory Democracy Innovative democratic professionals are encouraging greater participation in some of our most fundamental institutions, yet what they are doing is rarely the focus of political theory, social science research, or what politicians talk about when they are talking about renewing American democracy. The conversations in this series aim to shed light …
Conversations on Participatory Democracy Innovative democratic professionals are encouraging greater participation in some of our most fundamental institutions, yet what they are doing is rarely the focus of political theory, social science research, or what politicians talk about when they are talking about renewing American democracy. The conversations in this series aim to shed light …