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... and problems of the Caucus are discussed in five major areas of concern: the national organization, CNPS programs, chapter-building, New Political Science, and liaison. A position paper on CNPS goals and strategies for the 1980s follows. Responses to both documents are encouraged. National Organization...

... approaches to coalition. The first are coalitions grounded in shared or overlapping interests or goals; in such coalitions, groups identify common ground and then work together towards the achievement of mutual goals or interests. The second is grounded in a process of what María Lugones (2003) calls...

... with eighteen members of the black lesbian organization Free Gender, in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, I argue that Free Gender’s organizational goals can usefully be understood as asserting the commensurability of the identity “black lesbian” with “community member,” “African,” and “woman.” In applying a theoretical...

... needed. From the perspective of effective modern democracy, the goal of constitutional change should be seen as imperative: consideration should be given to alter the countermajoritarian and unrepresentative features of the Constitution. These counter-majoritarian constraints in the U.S. Constitution...

... changes needed to stem or reverse the continued enactment of these wider goals. This paper offers that insight: using responses to an original survey administered to faculty at major research universities across the United States in 2008–2009, certain values and beliefs held by academics across many...

... uprisings to the goals of equalizing power between citizens and instituting democratic ownership and control over the economy. This framework enables radical democracy to respond to longstanding criticisms concerning the need for a more robust articulation of the injustices caused by capitalist relations...

...Nolan Bennett Abstract The goal of this essay is to situate the radical George Jackson’s views on violence within his political thought and practice, with particular attention to his position as an incarcerated witness indicted by a legal system he would not recognize. The first section sketches...

... show that white middle-aged, middle-class groups participate most. Moreover, PB funds have been scaled back in both cities, limiting benefits and their potential to achieve PB’s equity goals. These results mirror outcomes in other jurisdictions. We conclude, nevertheless, with discussion of how PB’s...

...Vladimir Bortun Abstract Over the past decade we have witnessed the rise of radical left parties (RLPs) in several European countries. According to the prevalent definition in the literature, the key feature of this party family is the goal to overcome capitalism. However, based on content analysis...

... a strong integration goal, these policies bolster the second interpretation of Brown: one that allows segregation to occur, so long as it is not outwardly deliberate. © 2016 Caucus for a New Political Science 2016 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2016 VOL. 38, NO.1, 44-60 httpdx.doLorg/l0.l080...

...: what kinds of governments and political movements do US leaders support? What kind do they oppose and seek to destroy? And what socioeconomic goals do they pursue upon successfully intervening? Rather than seeing US policy as befuddled and contradictory, we observe that it is often remarkably...

...Tom Malleson Abstract This paper advances three arguments. First, current working-time patterns are destructive of justice, especially in terms of environmental sustainability, gender equality, and personal autonomy. Second, making fundamental progress towards these goals requires secure, quality...

... of each form of oppression is supported by other forms of oppression. One of the goals of this plenary was to help participants focus on the theme of the conference, critique and praxis, by envisioning new possibilities for theory, critique, praxis, and pedagogy in our time. To this end, we attempted...

... relationship to Marxism, a relationship often portrayed as unambiguously negative. And third, the goal is to demonstrate how principles developed in Maoist political activism are not only realized in Foucault’s activities within the GIP, but also in his lecture-hall formulations of genealogy, power...

... over meaningful participation are on-going, and that of all of PBNYC’s multiple goals, equity has proven to be the most elusive. © 2017 Caucus for a New Political Science 2017 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2017 VOL. 39, NO.1, 67-75 httpdx.doLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2017.1278854 From Porto Alegre to New...

... in the United States today.The New Politics episode can help clarify the goals and tactics involved in realigning American politics in a more progressive direction. NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2016 VOL. 38, NO.2, 141-159 httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2016.1153186 Searching for a New Politics: The New Politics...

... the philosophical mainstream and the actual public. The purpose of this article was to inject new intellectual effort in closing this gap. The goal is the ambitious one of a comprehensive demolition of the notion of distributive desert. To this end, I put forward seven critical arguments. Four of them are common...

... lightly with critiques of entrenched methods, established scholarship, and renowned journals, it argues that substantive analyses of this less than “ideal world” are still urgently interwoven with provocative interrogation of this less than ideal discipline. Beyond critique however, the goal...

.../structural view of the office, this expansive-restrictive debate, while important, misses the central point that regardless of party, personality, or management style, all presidents seek the same structural goals. If, as Theodore Lowi has argued, the president is the “state personified,” then we need to ask...

... of power, the colonial patriarchy, and our participation in perpetuating it. The “collective good” continues as a dream and as a goal for the anti-colonial Chicana feminist. © 1998 Caucus for a New Political Science 1998 New Political Science, Volume 20, Number 4, 1998 379 Anti-Colonial Chicana...