The Ethics of Citizenship in the 21st Century
The Ethics of Citizenship in the 21st Century

Author: David Thunder

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-08

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 3319504150

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This collection of essays offers thoughtful discussions of major challenges confronting the theory and practice of citizenship in a globalized, socially fragmented, and multicultural world. The traditional concept of citizenship as a shared ethnic, religious, and/or cultural identity has limited relevance in a multicultural world, and even the connection between citizenship and national belonging has been put in jeopardy by increasing levels of international migration and mobility, not to mention the pervasive influence of a global economy and mass media, whose symbols and values cut across national boundaries. Issues addressed include the ethical and practical value of patriotism in a globalized world, the standing of conscience claims in a morally diverse society, the problem of citizen complicity in national and global injustice, and the prospects for a principled acceptance by practising Muslims of a liberal constitutional order. In spite of the impressive diversity of philosophical traditions represented in this collection, including liberalism, pragmatism, Confucianism, Platonism, Thomism, and Islam, all of the volume’s contributors would agree that the crisis of modern citizenship is a crisis of the ethical values that give shape, form, and meaning to modern social life. This is one of the few edited volumes of its kind to combine penetrating ethical discussion with an impressive breadth of philosophical traditions and approaches. Chapters “What is the use of an Ethical Theory of Citizenship?” and “An Ethical Defense of Citizenship” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Toward an Ethic of Citizenship
Toward an Ethic of Citizenship

Author: William K. Dustin

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-01-11

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781469742304

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The idea for this book arose out of a little known political scandal, known as "phonegate", that occurred in Minnesota in the early 1990's in which a number of legislators were found to have been abusing their phone privileges. The hubris of the legislature in response to the discovery of this abuse not only made me rather angry, but, since I had been called for jury duty the year before, gave me the idea that service in the legislature ought to be a duty of citizenship like jury duty. Although the idea of the citizen legislature goes back to Aristotle, serious consideration of it raises the question of what is meant by citizenship and representation. This book addresses that question. It is an attempt to develop a model of citizenship in which representation is simultaneously a fundamental right and the highest obligation. After developing these ideas at a rather high level of abstraction, the book concludes with a proposed constitutional amendment for the State of Minnesota to illustrate how the model will work in practice.

21st Century Corporate Citizenship
21st Century Corporate Citizenship

Author: Dave Stangis

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2017-03-27

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1786356090

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This book presents a step-by-step process aimed at helping you create the most successful business possible in the 21st century competitive landscape, empowering corporate citizenship professionals to accelerate their credibility within their company as an effective contributor who understands their company’s strategy and who creates value.

Citizenship and Ethics
Citizenship and Ethics

Author: Thomas A. Bryer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-04-03

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1793613958

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Scholarship is a multi-generational collective enterprise with a commitment to advancing knowledge, inspiring reflection, and facilitating stronger neighborhoods, cities and countries. This book explicitly adopts this lens as a recognition of the contributions of Prof. Terry Cooper to scholarship and practice, and as a mechanism to connect the past to the present and ultimately the future of scholarship in public ethics and citizen engagement. This “multi-generational” approach is designed to reveal the persistent and future ongoing need to engage as a scholarly and practitioner community with these questions. The book is broken into three main sections: citizenship and neighborhood governance, public service ethics and citizenship, and global explorations of citizenship and ethics. Unique in this collection is the explicit linkage across the main focus areas of citizenship and ethics, as well as the comparative and global context in which these issues are explored. Cases and data are examined from the United States, Chile, Thailand, India, China, Georgia, and Myanmar. Ultimately, it is made clear through each individual chapter and the collective whole that research on citizenship and ethics within public affairs and service has a rich history, remains critical to the strengthening of public institutions today, and will only increase in global significance in the years ahead.

Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education
Conceptualizing Environmental Citizenship for 21st Century Education

Author: Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9783030202514

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This Open Access book is about the development of a common understanding of environmental citizenship. It conceptualizes and frames environmental citizenship taking an educational perspective. Organized in four complementary parts, the book first explains the political, economic and societal dimensions of the concept. Next, it examines environmental citizenship as a psychological concept with a specific focus on knowledge, values, beliefs and attitudes. It then explores environmental citizenship within the context of environmental education and education for sustainability. It elaborates responsible environmental behaviour, youth activism and education for sustainability through the lens of environmental citizenship. Finally, it discusses the concept within the context of different educational levels, such as primary and secondary education in formal and non-formal settings. Environmental citizenship is a key factor in sustainability, green and cycle economy, and low-carbon society, and an important aspect in addressing global environmental problems. It has been an influential concept in many different arenas such as economy, policy, philosophy, and organizational marketing. In the field of education, the concept could be better exploited and established, however. Education and, especially, environmental discourses in science education have a great deal to contribute to the adoption and promotion of environmental citizenship.

The Executive’s Guide to 21st Century Corporate Citizenship
The Executive’s Guide to 21st Century Corporate Citizenship

Author: Dave Stangis

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2017-08-31

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1787143007

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The Executive’s Guide to 21st Century Corporate Citizenship provides a major update on how to ‘do’ corporate citizenship, showing senior managers how they can win the reputation battle and deliver value to society while creating the most successful business possible in today’s competitive landscape.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the 21st Century

Author: Gordon Brown

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2016-04-18

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1783742216

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The Global Citizenship Commission was convened, under the leadership of former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the auspices of NYU’s Global Institute for Advanced Study, to re-examine the spirit and stirring words of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The result – this volume – offers a 21st-century commentary on the original document, furthering the work of human rights and illuminating the ideal of global citizenship. What does it mean for each of us to be members of a global community? Since 1948, the Declaration has stood as a beacon and a standard for a better world. Yet the work of making its ideals real is far from over. Hideous and systemic human rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate around the world. Too many people, particularly those in power, are hostile to human rights or indifferent to their claims. Meanwhile, our global interdependence deepens. Bringing together world leaders and thinkers in the fields of politics, ethics, and philosophy, the Commission set out to develop a common understanding of the meaning of global citizenship – one that arises from basic human rights and empowers every individual in the world. This landmark report affirms the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and seeks to renew the 1948 enterprise, and the very ideal of the human family, for our day and generation.

The Citizen in the 21st Century
The Citizen in the 21st Century

Author: James Arvanitakis

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1848882386

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The Citizen in the 21st Century challenges, confronts, comforts and renews the many ways of thinking about citizenship in the 21st century.

Toward a Concept of Global Citizenship in the 21st Century: Multi-Spatial Milieus of Political and Democratic Action
Toward a Concept of Global Citizenship in the 21st Century: Multi-Spatial Milieus of Political and Democratic Action

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Published: 2005

Total Pages:

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Globalisation has had an important role in the transformations on the normative and practical concepts of citizenship, especially when the notion of citizenship is exclusively conceived as delimited to bounded communities - modern nationstates. The world contains a myriad of defined and diffused meanings, where politics has taken an important role within a globalised world context. This has made thus the quest for identity building and political practice within and beyond the nation-state borders become even more relevant today than before - so the construction of concepts of disaggregated notions of citizenship such as global citizenship. I hope this thesis contributes to show that global ethics can be usefully approached in terms of something IR scholars should, perhaps, be rather more familiar with the concept, and practice, of citizenship. The concept I give for global citizenship in this thesis will try to shed some little light on the ethical and practical relationship between the citizen and the state; and how our view of political community could be enhanced, and perhaps challenged, within a context of an international system of nation-states. The term?global? I give to citizenship throughout this thesis relates to the practice of citizenship in diverse and multiple public spaces. For supporting this idea, brief expositions of some theoretical, ethical, and practical approaches on citizenship are displayed with the intent, on the one hand, to explain how the porousness of borders and territoriality can feed into new conceptions of citizenship which are not attached to the nation-state, and these in a disaggregated notion of global citizenship. On the other, they also aim to re-assess how and where the boundaries of political communities are to be set up today. These two analytical standpoints will embody the core endeavour of constructing a plausible and meaningful concept of citizenship in the 21st century.

Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century
Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century

Author: J. Michael Martinez

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-08-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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This volume establishes a foundation for a uniform code of professional ethics for public administrators in the United States. Public Administration Ethics for the 21st Century lays the ethical foundations for a uniform professional code of ethics for public administrators, civil servants, and non-profit administrators in the US. Martinez synthesizes five disparate schools of ethical thought as to how public administrators can come to know the good and behave in ways that advance the values of citizenship, equity, and public interest within their respective organizations. Using case studies, he teaches American administrators how to combine the approaches of all five schools to evaluate and resolve complex ethical dilemmas within the constraints of the U.S. democratic values set. Martinez enunciates the common ethical principles that guide public administrators in their practice within the specific ethical parameters and organizational cultures of a myriad entities at the federal, state, and local levels of government in the United States, as well as in non-profit organizations. Along the way, Martinez addresses a number of crucial issues, including personal gain, conflict of interest, transparency, democratic impartiality, hiring, hierarchical discipline, media relations, partisan pressure, appointments by elected officials, and whistle-blowing. The striking, high-profile case studies—Nathan Bedford Forrest, Adolph Eichmann, Lieutenant William Calley, and Mary Ann Wright—illustrate ethical dilemmas where, for better or worse, the individual was at odds with the organization.