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..., New York City, Philadelphia, and the Transformation of Public Space Timothy P. R. Weaver. ABSTRACT In recent years, social movements have taken to the streets to protest various forms of economic and racial injustice. However, these attempts to exploit the political opportunities public spaces afford...

... these new participatory democratic spaces are embedded, and articulate the conditions that might lead to more meaningful outcomes. Who participates? For whose benefit? The articles in this symposium, on participatory budgeting in New York City (PBNYC), highlight both strengths and challenges of the largest...

...Ron Hayduk; Kristen Hackett; Diana Tamashiro Folla Abstract Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a welcome experiment in participatory democracy in New York City (NYC), one that could produce greater civic engagement of traditionally marginalized groups and more equitable resource distribution...

... socially just spending. However, little research has examined whether and how PB shifts spending priorities. This study leverages publicly available records on New York City council districts’ capital project allocations over ten years (2009 through 2018), comparing spending within and across PB and non-PB...

.... 790716 David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, New York: Verso, 2012, 206 pp. David Harvey's Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution offers an insightful look at the current global financial climate in relation to urban life. While working...

...Andy Scerri New Political Science, 2014 Vol. 36, No.3, 406-411, httpdx.doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2014.924245 Review Essay Should We "See Like a City"? "If Mayors Ruled the World," Would It Be a Better Place? Benjamin Barber, If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities, New Haven...

...Douglas A. Medina Abstract Between 1969 and 1976 the City University of New York (CUNY) experienced two monumental policy transformations. These transformations were a result of changes in the political economy of New York City and State leading class struggles to erupt between and among groups...

...Timothy P. R. Weaver Abstract Social justice in the city has re-emerged as a critical issue in recent years. Especially important has been Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom’s 2011 edited volume, Justice and the American Metropolis, which contains essays by a series of leading urbanists...

...John C. Berg Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities , by Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman , Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2015 ,445 pp., $32.00 (cloth), $24 (paper), $17 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-262-02972-8 © 2017 John C. Berg 2017 @NEW POLITICAL...

...Isaac Jabola-Carolus Abstract Within five years of its launch, Participatory Budgeting in New York City (PBNYC) spread from four to thirty-one of New York’s fifty-one council districts, enabling city residents to directly allocate thirtyeight million dollars in public funds. During this period...

... College, City University of New York, Long Island City, NY, USA ABSTRACT Revisiting Andre Gorz's Destroy the University (1970) offers an opportunity to reconsider the concept of edu-factory explained by the respective authors of the Edu-factory Collective and Toward a Global Autonomous University (2009...

... of pop culture, political economy, and electoral politics © 2010 Caucus for a New Political Science 2010 Nezu Political Science, Volume 32, Number 1, March 2010 Frotn the Silver Screen to the Recall Ballot: Schwarzenegger as Tertninator and Politician Jeffrey Broxmeyer Graduate Center, City...

... Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY, USA ABSTRACT A strain of racist, xenophobic populism is sweeping through many democracies, jumping from the fringes of political discourse to the mainstream. Understanding how Donald Trump was able to take power while...

... Baruch College, City University of New York Abstract The fortunes of organized labor in the United States are on the decline. Union density has been steadily falling for decades, and even a concerted effort by innovative unions and new leadership at the AFL-CIO since 1995 has failed to reverse the losses...

... Political Science, Volume 26, Number 4, December 2004 {iii Carfax Publishing Taylor & Francis Group Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the US* Ronald Hayduk Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York Abstract This paper examines the politics of noncitizen...

... Intersectionality: Towards an Understanding of Discursive Marginalization Matthew Dean Hindman University of Minnesota- Twin Cities, USA Abstract In recent years, political science research on "intersectionality" has breathed new life into perennial debates about group politics, inequality, and marginalization...

... raised new questions for participatory democracy, as the contributors to this special issue highlight. In this article, I lift up the key impacts and challenges that they discuss, and their practical implications. I argue that for PBNYC and other PB processes to grow up, city leaders need to invest...

... Sciences, Borough ofManhattan Community College, CUNY, The City aUniversity ofNew York, New York, NY, USA [email protected] © 2017 Geoffrey Kurtz httpdx.doLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2017.1301320 © 2017 Geoffrey Kurtz 2017 Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left , by Gareth Dale , New York, NY...

...María Pía Lara © 2017 Caucus for a New Political Science 2017 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2017 VOL. 39, NO.2, 283-288 httpdx.doLorg/l0.l080/07393148.2017.1301324 SYMPOSIUM On Trendy Fascism Marfa Pfa Lara Department of Philosophy, Universidad Aut6noma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico The book...

... model of knowledge production," 426 Review Essay (p. xxiv) favoring the voices of sex workers themselves as active agents challenging social mores, prudery, and hypocrisy, changing cities, supporting broad-based social movements, and helping redefine norms of public and private space. In this respect...