From Marketing to Movement-Building: Ground Game and Community Organizing in Party Politics
It’s been said that “the ground game can only take you so far”. But what if the right kind of ground game can count for more than we realize?
Democracy
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Organizing to Win the Movement — not the Moment with LaToia Jones
LaToia Jones stays true to progressive values and organizes beyond the win or the loss to build resilient movements.
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Possibilities of Power: A Retrospective of the Ontario New Democratic Government, 1990 to 1995
Reflecting on the ONDP government led by Bob Rae from 1990 to 1995, it is clear that the success of today’s ONDP depends on its ability to deliver on substantive reforms that materially benefit Ontario’s diverse working-class.
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Escaping the Consulting Trap
Chris Hurl and Leah Werner reveal the consulting industry’s hand in hollowed-out public services and draw an escape plan for Western democracies hoping to emerge from consultants’ nebulous grasp.
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A Coherent Alternative for a Just and Equal Society?
In ‘Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?,’ Daniel Chandler sets out on a contemporary alternative to the social and economic policies of the right, drawn from the work of John Rawls.
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Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
Professor Nancy Fraser argues that the political arena is important because it is here that collective regulatory powers are exercised.
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Globalization, democracy and Robert Kuttner
By decommodifying health services, pensions, the right to unions, and other social services, they showed that with political will in these aspects of life the power of the market could be and should be broken if real democracy is to be achieved.
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Shifting to the centre is no way to fight right-wing populism
The problem with this narrative that elections are won by appealing to the mushy centre is that it fails to come to grips with the electoral appeal of Donald Trump and other right-wing populist.
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Defending democracy in the age of social media
We must reimagine the civic sphere as a pluralist space with both online and offline states—which often blend and sometimes become indiscernible from one another.
