1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457158303321

Titolo

From votes to victory [[electronic resource] ] : winning and governing the White House in the twenty-first century / / edited by Meena Bose

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-60344-226-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BoseMeenekshi <1970->

Disciplina

324.973/093

Soggetti

Presidents - United States - Election - History - 21st century

Presidents - United States - Election - 2008

Political campaigns - United States - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

United States Politics and government 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Navigating presidential nominating contests -- Inside parties : the politics of earning the presidential nomination / Lara M. Brown -- Donors, dollars, and momentum : lessons for presidential candidates in waging a viable campaign for the nomination / Victoria A. Farrar-Myers -- The virtual primary campaign : connecting with constituents in a multimedia age / Diane J. Heith -- Off to the (horse) races : media coverage of the 'not-so-invisible' invisible primary of 2007 / Lori Cox Han -- Winning the White House -- The debate about the debates : sixty years of hopes and laments for presidential colloquies / David Greenberg -- Swing states and electoral college strategy / John Fortier and Tim Ryan -- The road to the White House 2000 : lessons learned for the future / Shirley Anne Warshaw -- Governing in the White House -- Separation anxiety : unified and divided government in layered context / David A. Crockett -- Fighting a war, or managing a problem? : how presidents approach terrorism / Christopher Preble.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790588403321

Autore

Eberly Don E.

Titolo

The soul of civil society : voluntary associations and the public value of moral habits / / Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Oxford, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2002

©2002

ISBN

0-7391-0424-1

0-7391-6112-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (161 p.)

Disciplina

361.3/7

Soggetti

Voluntarism - United States

Associations, institutions, etc - United States

Non-governmental organizations - United States

Social problems - United States

Social ethics - United States

United States Moral conditions

United States Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Voluntary Associations and the Primacy of Moral Habits; PART ONE THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL RENAISSANCE; 1. The Coming Social Renaissance: Restoring America's Civic and Moral Creed; 2. Toward a Human Scale: Making the World Work at the Street Level; 3. Individuals and a Healthy Civic Order; PART TWO VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE MARKETPLACE; 4. Voluntary Associations and the Remoralization of America; 5. Targeting Recovery to Low-Income Families; 6. A Humane Economy: The Moral Dimensions of Enterprise

PART THREE MORAL HABITS AND THE PUBLIC GOOD7. Families, Fathers, and Citizenship; 8. Cultivating Moral Habits: Four Social Virtues Worth the Work; 9. The Reformation of Manners; 10. The Golden Rule: A Universal Moral Ethic for Society; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Americans care about the public value of moral habits. They like to see



virtue rewarded and vice censured, appealing as this does to the nation's deep sense that one's success rests neither in money nor in power but in one's civility. In The Soul of Civil Society Don Eberly and Ryan Streeter look beyond such abstractions as the 'voluntary sector' and superficial communitarian solutions to civic anomie to identify the pivotal role played by local voluntary associations in a civil society. Not only important for the services they provide, these 'little platoons,' as Edmund Burke labeled them, ar