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UNINA9910460338903321 |
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Lerner Josh <1978-> |
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Everyone counts : could "participatory budgeting" change democracy? / / Josh Lerner |
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Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell Selects, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Collana |
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Budget process - United States - Citizen participation |
Political planning - United States - Citizen participation |
Local budgets - United States - Citizen participation |
Political participation - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"Brown Demiocracy Medal Winner"--Cover. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Everyone Counts. Could "Participatory Budgeting" Change Democracy? -- This Is What Democracy Looks Like? -- Money Talks -- Importing Democracy from Brazil -- Coming to a City near You -- The Problems with Potholes -- Scaling Up Local Democracy -- Stepping Up -- Notes -- About the Author and the Participatory Budgeting Project |
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The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-for-profit organization that promotes "participatory budgeting," an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 46,000 people in communities across the United States have decided how to spend |
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UNINA9910464482703321 |
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Autore |
Salmon Yosef |
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Do not provoke Providence : Orthodoxy in the grip of nationalism / / Yoself Salmon ; translated from the Hebrew by Joel A. Linsider |
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Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (450 p.) |
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Judaism and Jewish Life |
Judaism and Jewish life |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Orthodox Judaism |
Zionism and Judaism |
Judaism and state |
Religious Zionism - Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
Palestine In Judaism |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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part one. The land of Israel in Orthodox Jewish thought -- part two. From support to uncertainty in the era of Hovevei Ziyyon -- part four. The national state and society : transforming religious values into national values -- part five. Religious Zionism : a general perspective. |
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Do Not Provoke Providence: Orthodoxy in the Grip of Nationalism deals with the whole complex of relations between the Land of Israel, the Jewish Torah, and the People of Israel from the Pre-Zionist Period until the establishment of the State of Israel. The book examines the dynamics of those relations through the modernization of Jewish society, and the problem of Jewish Identity vis-a-vis modernity. The discussion follows historical events in both philosophy and everyday life. It explores the anti-Zionist sphere and also discusses the attitudes toward the conflict of religion and nationalism in the world of Religious Zionism. The dispute between advocates of a religious concept of the community and proponents of a secular nation revolved primarily around perceptions of the ideal relationship between the religious and |
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national entities. One group sought to make religion a tool of the nation; the other sought to make the nation a tool of religion. |
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