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It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age of revolutions. A century later local governments embraced this shift due to rapid industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. During the twentieth century, all democratic governments began to perform a range of tasks, functions, and services that had no historical precedent. In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the gap between the wealthy and everyone else. Many of the reforms of that postwar period have been since rolled back because of the belief that government should be more like a business. Jos C.N. Raadschelders provides the information that all citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without it. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking to show the centrality of government in human life.

Political participation. --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical

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In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey's book critically reflects on what is missing from the liberal project with the aim of saving liberalism. It explains that populists have harnessed myth, ritual, magic and tradition to advance their ambitions, and why opponents need to embrace rather than eschew them.

Political participation. --- Populism. --- Political science --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Liberalism --- Social aspects.

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This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Political participation. --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- #SBIB:35H501 --- #SBIB:309H271 --- Bestuur en samenleving: netwerken, inspraak, participatie, interactief beleid --- Politieke communicatie: toepassingsgebieden

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Entre las últimas décadas del siglo xviii y las primeras del xix, el mundo iberoamericano experimentó su mayor mutación cultural desde la Conquista. Triunfan entonces concepciones radicalmente nuevas -revolucionarias- sobre la sociedad y la política y, con ellas, prácticas sociales inéditas que van a configurar un nuevo espacio público. Estas profundas mutaciones trastornan el antiguo espacio público: las maneras que los hombres tenían de relacionarse y de comunicarse entre sí y con sus autoridades. Implícita o explícitamente aparece también entonces la voluntad, a veces abrupta, de transformar el heterogéneo público del Antiguo Régimen -católico, corporativo y monárquico- en un pueblo liberal, individualista y republicano. Transformaciones tan radicales no podían imponerse de golpe y enteramente; por eso las permanencias, las resistencias y las adaptaciones son en este campo tan importantes como las novedades y las rupturas. A unas y otras están dedicados los capítulos de este libro. Algunos estudian las prácticas individuales o colectivas vinculadas a la libertad de imprenta, los periódicos y la lectura, las formas democráticas de sociabilidad, la formación de la opinión pública. Otros muestran, al contrario, cómo las "costumbres"anteriores a la mutación de los años 1810 y 1820, lejos de desaparecer, subsisten en una compleja y ambigua hibridación con las prácticas modernas. Medios de comunicación tan concretos como el pasquín, el rumor o el repique de campanas; formas de movilización codificadas y ordenadas por valores antiguos; las plazas y calles como espacios muy concretos de intercambio sobreviven victoriosamente a la aparición de la información impresa y ala difusión de nuevas formas de sociabilidad cultural y política. Otros, en fin, ponen de manifiesto la paradójica marginación popular que lleva consigo la afirmación de la nueva noción de lo público.

Social change --- Political participation --- History. --- Latin America --- Social life and customs. --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Iberoamérica

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This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies. With the emergence of digital and mobile technologies our conceptions and hopes of what citizen participation entails have changed profoundly. Interactive, networked and affordable technologies have transformed the relationship between knowledge, creativity and power. Citizens use media technologies in playful ways to engage in creative knowledge production and to alter professional roles and power structures.This book, available in Open Access, provides an overview of the potentials and limitations of citizen's engagement in the digital age through a collection of chapters from various academic fields. What connects these contributions is a focus on what we call playful participation. It is through this ludic engagement, we argue, that the contemporary production of knowledge and creative interventions in journalism, research, activism, art, politics, city making, and many other areas, should be understood. The book editors hold positions at Universities in the Netherlands (Utrecht University) and the UK (University of Warwick). They have published widely about digital media technologies, play, and identity.

Media studies --- Political participation. --- Play --- Political aspects. --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Amusements --- Games --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Digital media, play, citizen participation, knowledge, citizen science.