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...Judson Abraham Abstract As environmental legislation threatens energy-related jobs, unions may seek to assure just transitions for their workers. Just transitions are programs to guarantee decent, well-paying new jobs or early retirement for workers displaced by environmental regulations. Militant...

... somewhat weakened, there is little evidence to suggest that the three mechanisms, through which neoliberalism is socially embedded, have been significantly eroded. The implication for progressive politics is that, just as neoliberalism is socially embedded, so would a successful progressive non-neoliberal...

... of such humanitarian finance, the article analyzes a SIB that sought to improve outcomes for homeless persons in London. It argues that, instead of relying on sentimental stories, the project was animated by a results-oriented, technocratic culture geared at solving social problems (rather than just alleviating...

...), American aspirations involving digital communications are shown to be more than just contradictory; they are dangerously misguided. New Political Science, 2013 I~ ~~oouP Vol. 35, No.1, 1-18, httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2012.754666 Digital Engagetnent: Atnerica's Use (and Misuse) of Marshall McLuhan...

... theory, it also demonstrates how intersectional formations of gender, sexuality, and race have played a central role in making Tea Party performances of anger politically intelligible and powerful. The analysis highlights not just how white men and white women are able to enact public anger, but also how...

... of war that have been scattered across disciplines, buried in government documents and in the reports of government watchdogs groups, or are just beginning to emerge in the press, and suggests some areas for investigation that are being ignored. Far from “protecting our American way of life...

... just political economy through an appeal to the American tradition of civic republicanism. However, his project is fundamentally incoherent. First, Sandel’s narrative conflates the republican and religious aspects of the American founding, ignoring the fact that civic republican political theory...

... institutional development. Too often it has been viewed as a structural inevitability not amenable to democratic action. Just as in previous historical moments, capitalism and democracy enable and constrain one another in developing liberal societies. The American Populists farmers’ response to their time...

...Lasse Thomassen Abstract Going beyond conventional conceptions of political representation, Ernesto Laclau takes representation to be a general category and not just limited to formal political institutions, and he takes representation to be performative in that it also brings about what...

... framework of intersectional citizenship to South Africa, it becomes clear that Free Gender’s activism reveals differential access to identities necessary to be seen as citizens entitled to rights. More than just extending juridical citizenship, black lesbians must have socially and politically legitimate...

...Bradley J. Macdonald; Katherine E. Young Abstract When Marx proclaimed the importance of not just interpreting the world but actually changing it, he initiated an important imperative that has existed within all forms of critical theory up to today. Drawing upon the work of Theodor Adorno...

.... Rather, they are just one expression of a far more pervasive phenomenon, novel variations on centuries-old practices by which common or public land has been enclosed. I suggest that four forms of enclosure -for profit, of behavior, of community, and of the public realm- degrade the status of public...

... that it is less far-fetched than it may initially appear to be. In Dworkinian terminology, everyone is entitled to equal concern and respect under the Constitution. Judges can read its abstract language morally when they decide real constitutional cases to make the country more just. In egalitarian liberalism...

... future. B-girls help build the networks of support upon which hip- hop artists rely. However, despite its challenge to racial and economic hegemonies, much of hip-hop culture excludes women. How do b-girls use hip-hop to mobilize for a socially just future under such conditions? This article suggests...

...Richard Meagher Abstract The American Right’s speedy political recovery after the historic 2008 election was driven in part by Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. Yet conservative media are just one key component in the broad political networks built over the past few decades. Conservative...

... a form of oligarchy. From this perspective, a wide range of audiences (not just participatory democrats) can recognize a crisis of political inequality and the need for participatory reforms. © 2013 Caucus for a New Political Science 2013 New Political Science, 2013 Vol. 35, No.4, 547-566...

... underway since the 1970s and the ascendence of neoliberalism; a process that is not captured by the allied concepts lIunfettered” and financialization. Capitalism has been untethering itself from not just the regulations that curtailed action (llfettered” it) across the twentieth century, but also...

..., the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been a guarantor of profitability in an almost mercantile sense. The fact that the CCP is also an instrument of monumental oppression is not just incidental to this arrangement. The specifically anti-democratic nature of CCP authority is in fact its strongest...

... Liberation Army. The focus of this study is to examine the influence and participation of BPP members and supporters on the revolutionary armed movement, the Black Liberation Army. This study asserts the activity of the radical faction of the BPP through the form of the Black Liberation Army existed just...

... 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...