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  • Corruption and Transparency

    Tom Lansford, Heather Kissock

    Library Binding (Lightbox, Aug. 1, 2018)
    Corruption can undermine people's faith in government and erode equality. Transparency, or open government, provides the best means to prevent corruption by ensuring that the decisions and actions of officials are easily understood. Corruption and Transparency, one of the titles in the Foundations of Democracy series, examines one of the greatest dangers to democracy--corruption, and the importance of efforts to improve transparency in government.
    S

  • Authority

    Kenneth Rodriguez

    Paperback (Center for Civic Education, March 15, 2001)
    None

  • Gender Equality and Identity Rights

    Marie Des Neiges Léonard

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Looks at the fight for gender equality and identity rights around the world.

  • Justice, Policing, and the Rule of Law

    Tom Lansford

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Discusses the role of security officials in a democracy and why legal systems continue to struggle to achieve equality, especially among disadvantaged groups.

  • Political Participation and Voting Rights

    Tom Lansford

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Looks at the methods of political participation and voting around the globe and the challenges that citizens can face when trying to voice their opinion.

  • Citizenship and Immigration

    Tom Lansford

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 19, 2016)
    Examines how governments around the world determine who should and shouldn't be a citizen, testing the true meaning of democracy.
    Y

  • Speech, Media, and Protest

    Jr. Pauly, Robert J

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Examines how the rights to free speech, press, and expression are defended around the world.

  • Corruption and Transparency

    Tom Lansford

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Examines the issue of corruption in governments around the world and explains the importance of transparency.

  • Employment and Workers' Rights

    Jack Covarubias, Professor Tom Lansford

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 1, 2016)
    Explores the challenge of balancing the rights of corporations and the rights of the people they employ, and details the various solutions that have been found by the world's democracies.
    Y

  • Religious, Cultural, and Minority Rights

    David H. Holt

    Library Binding (Mason Crest, Aug. 19, 2016)
    Looks at how religious, cultural, and minority rights are defended around the world.

  • Employment and Workers' Rights

    Jack Covarubias, Tom Lansford

    Library Binding (Lightbox, Aug. 1, 2018)
    For most of human history, workers had few, if any, rights. Employment and Workers' Rights, one of the titles in the Foundations of Democracy series, examines the importance of economic liberty and the ways in which employment and workers' rights reinforce equality by guaranteeing opportunity.
    Z+

  • Religious, Cultural, and Minority Rights

    David Holt, Sara Cucini

    Library Binding (Lightbox, Aug. 1, 2018)
    Religion has the potential to provide a moral and ethical compass in a society and even help unify a country. Problems arise, however, if there are many religions or no religious tolerance between the religious and nonreligious people. Religious, Cultural, and Minority Rights, one of the titles in the Foundations of Democracy series, surveys the efforts that democracies have undertaken to integrate disadvantaged groups into the political, economic, and social mainstream.