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The second was the fact that it was possible to paint the issue, as Moses had already done, not only as park supporters vs. park deniers, but also as wealth vs. lack of wealth, privilege vs. impotence, influence vs. helplessness, “rich golfers” vs. the sweating masses of the cities.

If groups do not develop intentional “democratic structuring,” Freeman argued, informal power structures will form, usually reinforcing existing hierarchies and privilege.

If the altered demographic profile of the two parties in the 2016 election—almost perfectly replicated in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections—is signaling America’s newest political realignment, it would be the first since the Nixon-Reagan elections of 1968 to 1980, roughly forty to fifty years earlier. By Walter Dean Burnham’s count (as we saw in C

John Dewey and Paulo Freire in articulating the interrelation of politics and education.

La construction d’un champ politique clivé non pas entre des progressistes (ou des « libéraux », au sens américain du terme) plus ou moins radicaux, et des conservateurs plus ou moins décidés, entre l’électorat du parti démocrate et celui du parti républicain (ou, en termes européens, entre la gauche et la droite), mais entre un centre modéré et ra

There I took part in setting the school’s rules at the weekly “town meetings” and had the opportunity to lead the design of a new admission policy

By definition, more people support the majority view than support the minority one. But for some questions there is also a long tradition of requiring super majorities rather than simple majorities. Jean-Jacques Rousseau held that “the more grave and important the questions discussed, the nearer should the opinion that is to prevail approach unanim

A 2015 study by the American Sociological Foundation found that the highest level of segregation is between blacks and whites, the lowest is between Asians and whites, and the level between Latinx and whites occupies an intermediate position. A majority of whites, in both the expression of their beliefs and the practice of their lives, do not want