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... districts. Multi-level regression models show that, on average, when council districts adopted PB, greater proportions of their discretionary capital budgets were allocated to schools, streets and traffic improvements, and public housing. PB was associated with decreases in spending on parks and recreation...

... the promise of its title. PETER STONE Trinity College Dublin, Ireland © 2012 Peter Stone httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2012.646027 Clarence Lusane, The Black History of the White House, San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 2011, 575 pp. The Black History of the White House is a deft history of race...

... at the Grass Roots: Why Progressive Third Parties Rarely Win State House Elections Janathan Martin Framingham State University, USA Abstract This article addresses why US progressive third parties today seldom win state legislative elections, despite apparent opportunities to the contrary. It analyzes...

...Margaret Levi; Morgen Myrdal; George Robertson New Political Science, Volume 29, Number 4, December 2007 Retnodeling the House of Labor Margaret Levi, Morgen Myrdal, and George Robertson University of Washington Even though many workers toiled under one roof the owners subcontracted much work...

... of fusion by most states around 1900 undermined third parties, and that the continued use of fusion in New York State is a primary reason why third parties remain strong there. In this paper, which is based on a district-level analysis of all elections to the House of Representatives since 1870, I argue...

... assemblage of street protests in Thai political history. Each protestor donated ten cubic centimeters of blood to be poured at several sites, including the Government House of Thailand, the ruling Democrat Party headquarters, and the Prime Minister’s residence. Other vials were used to paint murals along...

...Çiğdem Çıdam Abstract In 2013, Gezi Park housed perhaps the most significant democratic protest of the Turkish Republic’s history. The Gezi protests have drawn the attention of many democratic theorists since then. What is surprising about these theorists’ commentaries on Gezi is that in none...

.... In so doing, this article considers what viewing urban social justice through a social citizenship lens implies about the domains of health, housing, and economic security, and examines how various cities have attempted to promote social justice in these areas. I argue that an urban social citizenship...

...Peter N. Funke; M. Scott Solomon Abstract This article contextualizes Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement that emerged in the fall of 2014. We argue that first, the Umbrella Movement was not merely about democracy but must be understood in the context of widening inequality and an ongoing housing...

...Eric Boehme Abstract Neoliberal policies generated the conditions for the Great Recession, an economic downturn that hit the housing and construction industries particularly hard, disproportionately impacting the foreign-born and the undocumented populations in the US. The recession also created...

... Clinton health-care initiative, the 1997–2002 Jospin-Left program, with attention to the 35-hour workweek and associated policies, and the 2000–2006 Putin policy agenda, with attention to health care and housing measures, serve as national case studies to illuminate our arguments. © 2007 Caucus...

..., and real estate increasingly functions as an investment opportunity, causing housing prices to skyrocket. The resulting political-economic crisis dynamic constitutes fruitful ground for populist opposition voices. Adopting Ernesto Laclau’s framework, the article analyzes the 2021 election programs of three...

... economic times, disproportionately fallen on the poor, especially among racially identifiable minorities. Their marginalizing effects include measurable changes such as increased housing instability, wage loss, and student mobility as well as experiences with stress and trauma that sometimes stem from...

... are non-European. Similarly, in the area around Nice, and in the Marseilles region, immigrant children are just above the national average; but more than two thirds are non-European, mostly from North Africa. x The concentration of primary school children emerges from housing patterns, and the development...

... in a sea of mainstream Republicans and Democrats, and in a House of Representatives organized along strict two-party lines? This article offers an analysis of Congressman Sanders's role within the House, the constraints he faced during his first term as an outsider on the inside of this conventional...

... in the roof of her Treme house and bar, still covered with blue tarp, while more quietly and desperately searching for her brother, not seen since the storm. Antoine Baptiste (Wendell Pierce), a trombone player, searches for gigs. The show dramatizes for us the difficulties facing New Orleans. It presents...

... national multifamily portfolio. The mortgages were large, relative to the buildings' values, and the group's organizers and leaders feared the impact they might have on Bronx housing conditions. The arson and abandonment that plagued the Bronx in the 1970s-the central problem around which the Northwest...

... by the environmental justice movement. The movement has instead fashioned an understanding of environmental justice which incorporates these problems along with many other concerns of these communities. Tenants and housing organizations, labor unions, and community groups are linking their organizing against hazardous...

.... 6 Ibid., p. 24. 7 Ibid. 8 Carlos Rodriguez-Fraticelli and Amilcar Tirado, "Notes Towards a History of Puerto Rican Community Organizations in New York City," Centro IV:1 (1991), p. 42. 9 Jose Sanchez, Housing Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945 to 1984: A Study in Class Powerlessness, PhD...

... with brazen arrogance. The Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves, not merely because of Bush's blatant erosion of that system, but also, perhaps more, because of Congress's failure to protect the Constitution. The Republican party, tightly in control of both Houses of Congress, is particularly...