Product Description: In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with analyses of film, literature, and ethnographic sources, Lee shows how these abject populations find ingenious and improvisational ways to disrupt and appropriate practices of liberal citizenship...read more

Product Description: Written in a provocative, jargon-free style ideal for stimulating classroom discussion, America's Failing Experiment directly challenges would-be reformers who believe the solution to our current political paralysis is more democracy...read more

Lists various topics in alphabetical order and discusses reasons to vote for or against them, including abortion, illegal immigration, prostitution, taxation, and universal healthcare.

The author of Soverign Virtue identifies and defends the core principles of personal and political morality that all citizens can share in this critical study of how the full promise of democracy can be realized in America and elsewhere.

Product Description: In Downsizing Democracy, Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg describe how the once powerful idea of a collective citizenry has given way to a concept of personal, autonomous democracy. Today, political change is effected through litigation, lobbying, and term limits, rather than active participation in the political process, resulting in narrow special interest groups dominating state and federal decision-making...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)