Democracy demands new ideas. We have answers.
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In Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat, political scientist Jennifer L. Hochschild analyzes key policies in four major U.S. cities to explore when race and class influence urban politics, when they don’t, and what other factors can drive city policy decisions.
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In this volume, Julie Battilana and her co-authors compellingly argue that workplace democracy holds the key to restoring balance between the economy and society.
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In Julie Battilana’s book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business, she aims to make power more accessible to all kinds of people and empower them to affect positive and long-lasting change
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Ash Center’s Marshall Ganz examines common misconceptions in the social sector about power and structural change.
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In People, Power, Change, Marshall Ganz explores how ordinary people can join forces to transform the resources they have into the power needed to create meaningful change in their lives.
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In his working paper, Eric Maskin and Partha Dasgupta show that, among all voting rules, majority rule is uniquely characterized by strategy-proofness, the Pareto principle, anonymity, neutrality, independence of irrelevant alternatives, and decisiveness.
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As threats to democracy grow globally, Julie Battilana’s recent essay — marking ASQ’s 70th volume — calls for organizational research to more deeply examine how democratic or authoritarian organizations themselves are, and the consequences of these differing models.
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In Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat, political scientist Jennifer L. Hochschild analyzes key policies in four major U.S. cities to explore when race and class influence urban politics, when they don’t, and what other factors can drive city policy decisions.
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From leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism.
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Maya Sen argues that federal courts are unlikely to protect democracy from threats posed by Trump and Musk, as the judiciary’s power to check executive overreach is limited and increasingly challenged.