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...Jill Gregory; April Lewton; Stephanie Schmidt; Diane “Dani” Smith; Mark Mattern Abstract The Clothesline Project uses t-shirt art to address the issue of violence against women. Others have argued that the Clothesline Project empowers women in general and female victims of violence in particular...

..., a conception of power, and an open project of omnicracy. Ultimately, this paper discusses the opportunities presented in future research and action by re-conceptualizing nonviolence. © 2022 Caucus for a New Political Science 2022 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2022, VOL. 44, NO.2, 283-296 httpsdoi.org/l 0.1 080...

... of civil society—is a necessary condition of democratic life. © 1998 Caucus for a New Political Science 1998 New Political Science, Volume 20, Number 2, 1998 233 Volunteerism and the Project of the Left: A Response to James Petras and Chronis Polychroniou Joseph Kling St Lawrence University Abstract...

..., improve deliberation in decision-making, and strengthen the process and outcomes of PB. This article will discuss Participatory Action Research principles used by the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center, explore the applicability of these principles to the Participatory Budgeting...

... in equity, expand project eligibility and funding, and scale PB up to the city level. © 2017 Caucus for a New Political Science 2017 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2017 VOL. 39, NO.1, 156-160 httpdx.doLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2017.1278860 Conclusion: Time for Participatory Budgeting to Grow Up Josh Lerner...

... with the process that has led to a book like this one and its publication. DAVID LEMPERT Southeast Asia Cultural Heritage Protection Project © 2014, David Lempert httpdx.doi.org/l 0.1 080/07393148.2014.886454 Book Reviews 287 Notes on Contributor David Lempert's works on social movements date back to the 1980s...

... result in different budgetary priorities than standard practices? Second, do projects meet normative social justice outcomes? It is clear that allowing citizens to determine municipal budget projects results in very different outcomes than standard procedures. Importantly, citizens in the 49th Ward...

... 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...

...Tom Malleson Abstract While the notion that parts of the economy should be subject to democratic oversight is not particularly new, it is only recently that the term “economic democracy” has begun to emerge as a political label and a political project in its own right. Interest in economic...

... attention to how social constructions of the “good project” shape the discourses around community priorities and winning projects—especially in the areas of security/policing and education. While the New York PB process has successfully reached out to and effectively enfranchised traditionally marginalized...

... cyanide opencast mine in Europe. Through attempts at privatizing and commodifying whole areas of social life, the market logic promoted by the corporation in the last twelve years portrays the mine as the “only alternative” for the development of the region. Rosieni and activists have blocked the project...

...R. Claire Snyder Abstract Michael Sandel’s Democracy’s Discontent strives to contribute to the project of “democratic theory,” which aims to bring people together across ideological differences. Sandel wants to revitalize citizenship by uniting religious conservatives and those committed to a more...

... of neoliberalism”—a moment of political-economic volatility brought about by the Great Recession. We argue that the Tea Party’s political purpose is to hold together the New Right coalition of business elites and white working- and middle—class Americans that undergirds the neoliberal political project...

... to propose and decide on projects to fund with tax dollars. Does PB achieve a form of empowered participatory governance? This article examines this question by focusing on the degree to which PB engages marginalized groups in two Bay Area cities, using survey and interview data. We find that marginalized...

...Leo Panitch Abstract Erick Olin Wright’s Real Utopias Project was concerned to establish the intellectual grounds for an open-ended politics that was still inspired by the goal of replacing capitalist systems by socialist ones.Conceived when ‘civil society’ was still all the fashion, its emphasis...

... 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...

.... Through communicative processes of mediatization, organizations pay homage to the existence of a movement, but only afford thin forms of participation. Using the framework of media advocacy to explore Human Rights Watch and the Enough! Project, we argue that social media becomes a topdown platform...

...-structural present. While the “cultural turn” promised to give voice against structuralist silencing, the critical subject of emancipation has been defaced, eradicated such that we currently have no theoretical place from where to build an emancipatory project. We must clear an analytical space through which...

...John M. Friend Abstract This article argues that advances in biotechnology and the life sciences, particularly the ongoing neuro-revolution, have changed the relationship between science and politics. Since the “Decade of the Brain” project of the 1990s, new neuroscientific terms and biological...

...Neil A. Burron Abstract This article argues that Haiti’s new president, Michel Martelly, represents a populist-authoritarian project that combines limited forms of inclusion with repression in an effort to stabilize Haiti’s polarized social structure. Nearly a decade after a UN stabilization...