Citizen politics aims to spur a democratic resurgence at the grassroots. But as other forms of democratic participation decline, can citizen organizing make a difference?
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Posted inLaw and Justice
Constitutional Politics and the Conservative Court
A leading scholar in constitutional law examines the future path of the Supreme Court. The Court’s right turn is nothing to celebrate, but liberals should welcome the return of issues to the political arena.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
AIDS and the Moral Economy of Insurance
AIDS is only one of many conditions that new diagnostics tests predict. But what is the purpose of insurance if people who might get sick are judged unacceptable risks?
Posted inEconomic Policy
An Outward-Looking Economic Nationalism
Yes to open trade; no to laissez-faire domestic policies.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Affordable Housing: Lessons from Canada
How Canada manages to build scandal-free nonprofit housing
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Vanishing Voters
In 1990 and 1992, the eligible nonvoters will likely outnumber the voters in national elections. A political scientist sorts out the different explanations of the long turnout decline—and what might be done to reverse it.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Real Welfare Problem
A new study documents that in major cities, a welfare check barely pays rent and utilities.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Race-Neutral Policies and the Democratic Coalition
Race-neutral programs offer the best way to help the truly disadvantaged and to win back the truly disenchanted.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Liberal Opportunity
The startling collapse of communism, not with a bang (except in Romania) but a whimper, presents the democratic world with a new array of challenges. For the United States, an age of military competition with the Soviet Union is coming to an end. In its place looms a new age of economic competition. The chief […]
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Environmental Risk and the World Economy
When countries trade goods, they also trade environmental and health risks. Why we need a new international framework to preserve both the public’s health and the world’s commerce.
