The Reith Lectures

Civil and Uncivil Societies

Jul 10, 2012

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I Think the Essence of Modern Democratic Behaviour Is Looking After the People

03:55

The Harlem Success Academy

01:50

The Difference Between a Homogeneous and a Diverse Society

01:39

Introduction

3min

The Black Box - Civil Society

3min

Associations in the United States

4min

The Death of Association Life

4min

Independent Schools Are the Best Institutions in the UK

2min

The Limits of Public Monopoly Providers of Education

3min

The UK's Universities Are in a State of Crisis

3min

Charter Schools - The Next Step in Education Reform

3min

The Education Revolution of the 20th Century

3min

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The Politics of Big Society

4min

11.

We're Out of Joint, Ladies and Gentlemen.

2min

12.

I Think the Essence of Modern Democratic Behaviour Is Looking After the People

4min

13.

The Harlem Success Academy

2min

14.

I've Had a Rude Hickler, and I Didn't Hekl, I Went a Very Good Public Sector School

4min

15.

Is There a Vibrant Civil Society?

2min

16.

Working Class Associational Life in the Working Class

2min

17.

What Are Your Ideas?

1min

18.

The Difference Between a Homogeneous and a Diverse Society

2min

19.

The Power of Civil Society

2min

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Colin, Would We Have Got Where We Ended Up if We'd Goed to Air Academy?

2min

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The Degeneration of Western Institutions

2min

The historian Niall Ferguson examines institutions outside the political, economic and legal realms, whose primary purpose is to preserve and transmit particular knowledge and values. In a lecture delivered at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he asks if the modern state is quietly killing civil society in the Western world? And what can non-Western societies do to build a vibrant civil society?

Producer: Jane Beresford.

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The Reith Lectures

Civil and Uncivil Societies

I Think the Essence of Modern Democratic Behaviour Is Looking After the People

The Harlem Success Academy

The Difference Between a Homogeneous and a Diverse Society

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