NCPE Town Hall Meeting

Join us on June 28, 2008 for the Third NCPE Town Hall Meeting.

NCPE in the News: 2008

"Given $50,000 He Decides to Run" (Las Vegas Sun)

Acting President Julie Tousa on Jon Ralston's "Face to Face: Ethics Complaint"

Meet the Acting President of NCPE, Julie Tousa

"New Watchdog of Public Ethics Continues Enforcing Vital Unwritten Law" (Las Vegas Review Journal)

"Partying Away As Taxpayers Pay and Pay" (Las Vegas Sun)

Ethics Legislation 2007

NCPE at the 2007 Nevada State Legislature: Summary and Details

"Article 6 Commission" to study and recommend improvements in the Nevada judiciary
See Dr. Craig Walton's summary of May Meeting

NCPE statement about the danger of big donors contributing to Supreme Court justice election campaigns.

Judicial Ethics & the Complaint Processes

Craig Walton's letter, to the Las Vegas Business Journal in favor of the new plan for judicial selection

Candidate Pledge

Email NCPE Treasurer

References on Government, Ethics, and Integrity and other subjects

Citizenship and Public Policy     -    Bibliography         Links

Beiner, Ronald. What's the Matter with Liberalism? Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
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Bickford, Susan. The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict, and Citizenship. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996.
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Callan, Eamonn. Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy. Oxford political theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
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Quigley, Charles N., and Charles F. Bahmueller. Civitas: A Framework for Civic Education. Calabasas, CA: Center for Civic Education, 1991.
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Eberly, Don E. Building a Community of Citizens: Civil Society in the 21st Century. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1994.
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Eberly, Don. The art of the impossible. (Incl. Havel, Václav. The Art of the Impossible: Politics As Morality in Practice : Speeches and Writings, 1990-1996. New York: Knopf, 1997)
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Elkin, Stephen L., and Karol Edward Sołtan. Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
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Greenawalt, Kent. Religious Convictions and Political Choice. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
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Gunsteren, Herman R. van. A Theory of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality in Contemporary Democracies. Boulder, Colo: Westview Press, 1998.
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Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis F. Thompson. Democracy and Disagreement. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
See esp. chap. 6
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Habermas, Jürgen. "Reconciliation Through the Public use of Reason: Remarks on John Rawls's Political Liberalism" The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 92, No. 3. (Mar., 1995), pp. 109-131.
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Langton, Stuart. Citizen Participation in America: Essays on the State of the Art. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1978.
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Macedo, Stephen. Deliberative Politics: Essays on Democracy and Disagreement. Practical and professional ethics series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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Miller, Toby. The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
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Rawls, John. Political Liberalism. Columbia classics in philosophy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
LECTURE IX. "Reply to Habermas" page 372
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Remy, Richard C. Handbook of Basic Citizenship Competencies: Guidelines for Comparing Materials, Assessing Instruction, and Setting Goals. Alexandria, Va: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1980.
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Riesenberg, Peter N. Citizenship in the Western Tradition Plato to Rousseau. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
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Sandel, Michael J. Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Shklar, Judith N. American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.
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Thompson, Dennis F. The Democratic Citizen: Social Science and Democratic Theory in the Twentieth Century. London: Cambridge U.P., 1970.
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Tong, Rosemarie. Ethics and Policy Analysis (Prentice-Hall,Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. “The Scope of Accountability”(Chap. 4 of  Democracy and Disagreement).
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Walton, Craig.  “Social Capital and the Quality of Life in Southern Nevada”, Chap.Twenty-two of Social Health in Southern Nevada, ed. Dmitri Shalin (University of Nevada Press, forthcoming). 
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