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Democracy's Midwife

An Education in Deliberation

By: Jack Crittenden

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Democracy's Midwife

An Education in Deliberation

By: Jack Crittenden

Jack Crittenden's excellent new study looks behind the modern democratic rhetoric to reveal a system of government that excludes citizens from participating directly in decision making. The book combines a thorough examination of the rhetorical underpinnings of democratic education with radical solutions for overhauling a system of civic education that dates back to the Founding Fathers.

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Lexington Books

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0739103296

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Direct Deliberative Democracy

How Citizens Can Rule

By: Crittenden Jack Crittenden

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Direct Deliberative Democracy

How Citizens Can Rule

By: Crittenden Jack Crittenden

As American politics becomes ever more dominated by powerful vested interests, positive change seems permanently stymied. Left out in the cold by the political process, citizens are frustrated and despairing. How can we take back our democracy from the grip of oligarchy and bring power to the people? In Direct Deliberative Democracy, Jack Crittenden and Debra Campbell offer up a better way for government to reflect citizens' interests. It begins with a startlingly basic question: "e;Why don't we the people govern?"e; In this provocative book, the authors mount a powerful case that the time has come for more direct democracy in the United States, showing that the circumstances that made the Constitutional framers' arguments so convincing more than two hundred years ago have changed dramatically-and that our democracy needs to change with them. With money, lobbyists, and corporations now dominating local, state, and national elections, the authors argue that now is the time for citizens to take control of their government by deliberating together to make public policies and laws directly. At the heart of their approach is a proposal for a new system of "e;legislative juries,"e; in which the jury system would be used as a model for selecting citizens to create ballot initiatives. This would enable citizens to level the playing field, bring little-heard voices into the political arena, and begin the process of transforming our democracy into one that works for, not against, its citizens.

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190

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Black Rose Books Ltd.

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1551646730

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9781551646732

Stalking White Crows

How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

By: Jack Crittenden

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How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

By: Jack Crittenden

How making up our minds and the makeup of our minds can help us live better and die better. We live in a climate where feelings trump reason and evidence. Lies are treated as “alternative facts.” At the same time, it seems our culture does not want us to treat altered or higher states of consciousness seriously. Focusing both on evidence and on such states of consciousness can reorient our attitudes. Jack Crittenden asks the reader to think about life after death, about the basis of morality and the essence of spirituality, about the meaning of happiness, about the path of dying, and about the proper role of work in our lives and how education connects to that role. What if our memories, thoughts, and whole personality lived on after we died? What if morality were based on reasons and evidence and not on God and sacred texts? What if happiness lies not in what we think, how we feel, and what we long for, but in living in the present and in the dying of the self itself? Experiences of and the evidence on altered and higher states of consciousness can lead us to better lives and better deaths.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789042194

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Democracy's Midwife

An Education in Deliberation

By: Jack Crittenden

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An Education in Deliberation

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Beyond Individualism

Reconstituting the Liberal Self

By: Jack Crittenden

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Beyond Individualism

Reconstituting the Liberal Self

By: Jack Crittenden

In the examination of the conception of human nature, a duality is commonly perceived--the liberal self as atomistic, self-contained, even selfish; and the communitarian self as socially situated and defined through its environment. Crittenden argues that neither view is acceptable, drawing on recent psychological research to expound on a theory of "compound individuality." This work includes a discussion of the compound individual as the self of liberalism, as well as a discussion of the sort of political organization that can generate personal identity constituted by liberal autonomy and communitarian sociality.

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Oxford University Press

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0195360893

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Stalking White Crows

How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

By: Jack Crittenden

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How Evidence and Altered Consciousness Bring Us Better Living and Better Dying

By: Jack Crittenden

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John Hunt Publishing

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Ruth

My Adoptive Family, My Birth Family, My Family ; an Autobiography

By: Ruth Crittenden Wills

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My Adoptive Family, My Birth Family, My Family ; an Autobiography

By: Ruth Crittenden Wills

Etta May Pascoe was born in New Mexico in 1920. Her family moved to Arizona where they were abandoned by their mother. She was immediately put up for adoption and when she was just two years old she was adopted by Ray and Wanda Buyer Crittenden. She had an adopted brother and later married John Wills. They were the parents of four children. Later she was able to be reunited with her six siblings and her biological mother. Information on both her adopted and biological families is given in this volume along with material on several of her ancestors. Limited material is also included on her siblings and children. Today her relatives live in Illinois, Arizona, California, England and elsewhere.

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394

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0929526678

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9780929526676

Strategic Marketing Management Cases

By: David W. Cravens,Charles W. Lamb,Victoria L. Crittenden

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Strategic Marketing Management Cases

By: David W. Cravens,Charles W. Lamb,Victoria L. Crittenden

Focusing on the major decision-making challenges facing marketing managers in the late 1990s, this text's cases include a broad range of companies. It reflects marketing management priorities: market orientation, growth strategies, and target market strategies.

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738

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McGraw-Hill/Irwin

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0256136890

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9780256136890

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