Book
Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy
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.
Democracy Exchange Resources
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The Resilience of Democracy’s Third Wave
Steve Levitsky argues that, despite widespread pessimism and alarming reports of democratic decline, the so‑called “Third Wave” democracies have demonstrated remarkable resilience—maintaining historically high levels of democratic governance—thanks to structural forces like economic development and enduring electoral competition
Book
Legitimacy: The Right to Rule in a Wanton World
In his book, Arthur Isak Applbaum argues that government legitimacy requires more than procedural consent—it demands the protection of rights, political equality, and coherent governance.
Policy Brief
Information Inequality Can Be a Matter of Life or Death
In this paper, Mary W. Graham, co-director of the Center’s Transparency Policy Project, examines how unintended information inequities undermine critical health and safety alerts. Focusing on three key policies — wildfire alerts, drinking water reports, and auto safety recalls — she identifies common roots of these disparities and highlights efforts by policymakers to address them.
Book
Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy
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.
Book
Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business
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
Article
Are You Building Something?
Ash Center’s Marshall Ganz examines common misconceptions in the social sector about power and structural change.
Book
People, Power, Change
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.
Additional Resource
Elections and Strategic Voting: Condorcet and Borda
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.
Article
On Democratic Organizing and Organization Theory
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.