Engaging Citizenship

Lauren Marie Balasco, Ph.D. (University of Delaware), Associate Professor of Political Science (Stockton University): Areas of specialization include comparative politics, rule of law, democratization, transitional justice, human rights, Latin American politics. Claire E. Abernathy, Ph.D. (Vanderbilt University), Associate Professor of Political Science (Stockton University): Areas of specialization include American politics, legislative correspondence management practices. Jennifer Forestal, Ph.D. (Northwestern University), Assistant Professor of Political Science (Loyola University Chicago): Areas of specialization include political theory, effects of digital technologies on democratic politics and how it can shape users' democratic habits and practices.

• Preface: Why Citizenship?1: Unpacking CitizenshipPart 1: Explaining Statehood2: Justifying the State3: Comparing State Strength and Fragility4: Defining Rights in the United States5: Establishing SecurityPart 2: Organizing Political Life6: Defining Democracy7: Comparing Democratic Regimes8: Exploring Democratic Institutions in the United States9: Ordering the Global SystemPart 3: Shaping Participatory Processes10: Structuring Participation11: (De)-Democratizing Political Regimes12: Participating in the U.S. Political System13: Governing Global PoliticsPart 4: Challenging the State14: Resisting State Authority15: Mobilizing Contentious Politics16: Framing Political Conflict in the United States17: Holding States Accountable through International Law

I see this book being a primary text used for Introduction to Political Science courses. ... I think the competitive advantage is that the authors tried to ensure that each subfield in the discipline was adequately represented in the book. I really liked this, because often times authors focus on one or two subfields and ignore the rest." - Henry Tecklenburg, Georgia Southern University