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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Economic Democracy"”.
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A theory of economic democracy
What is economic democracy? What, if anything, justifies it? This thesis argues that liberal theories of justice are objectionable insofar as they emphasize the distribution of resources, having little to say about how production is governed. The commitments central to liberal democracy call for …
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Designing economic democracy Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process
This client-based thesis analyzes Participatory Budgeting processes in two cities to help guide the institutional design of Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process. Grassroots-led organization Boston Ujima Project is developing a democratically-governed Capital Fund by integrating …
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Building a platform for economic democracy : a cooperative development strategy for the Bronx
… Initiative in Cleveland, I present a cooperative economic development framework made up of three components: defining a geographic area, developing a cooperative network, and designing policies based on an endogenous, import replacing economic development model. Using this framework, I then offer …
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Overcoming inequality in regional innovation ecosystems : the Basque country and the advance of economic democracy
… on designing and implementing place-based economic development strategies for clustering innovation and entrepreneurship. This rising trend can be seen in the proliferation of Innovation Districts and Regional Innovation Ecosystems across many metropolitan regions in the US, Europe, and …
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Infrastructure and agency : rural electric cooperatives and the fight for economic democracy in the United States
How do cooperative businesses influence economic and community development in practice? Recent calls for a "new economy" argue that co-ops and other kinds of distributed ownership should be capable of transforming neoliberal market relations into place-based, community-centered, and nonextractive …
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Race and place : green collar jobs and the movement for economic democracy in Los Angeles and Cleveland
Faced with the problem of growing economic inequality in America and the threat posed to democracy, a number of planning scholars have put forth the idea of building progressive civil society capacity in the economic sphere to broaden stakeholder control and accountability of capitalist markets. …
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The Contested Relationship of Democracy and the Economy : Debates on Economic and Industrial Democracy in Finland and Sweden, 1960s–1990s
… analyzes the contested and changing relation of democracy and the economy in Finnish and Swedish political thought and rhetoric from the 1960s until the 1990s. More specifically, it investigates how composite concepts such as ‘economic democracy,’ ‘industrial democracy’ and ‘enterprise democracy’ …
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A blueprint for building a multi-generational movement for social transformation in Boston
… organizations are taking to foster economic democracy and transform the political economy of society in Boston. Using a mixed methods approach of participant observations, interviews, and an academic literature review, this thesis explores the overlaps and bridges the gaps between …
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Henry Agard Wallace and Latin America (1932-1946): The Limits of American Liberalism
… was supposedly proof of this fact. Political and economic democracy which Wallace believed to be at the foundation of the liberal principles guiding the Democratic party were only a myth. The conservative elements within the Democratic party, worried over the idealistic rhetoric Wallace used, …
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The Prairie Campaign and Kennedy Caucus: A Study of Amateur Groups in North Dakota
… one of whether or not the Prairie Campaign for Economic Democracy and Kennedy caucus members at the 1980 State Democratic-NPL Convention were political amateurs who placed issues and ideology above winning. The Prairie Campaign for Economic Democracy and the Kennedy for President Caucuses were …
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Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗΣ ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΗΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ ΜΕΤΑΠΟΛΕΜΙΚΑ (1974-79)
… ON SOME PREREQUISITES WHICH ARE FOUND ON SOCIOECONOMIC (SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT), HISTORICAL-POLITICAL AND SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL LEVEL. IN THE CASE OF GREECE IN POSTWAR PERIOD THESE PREREQUISITES THERE WEREN'T ON THERE WERE BUT IN A DEGREE NO SUFFICIENT. THE INCREASE OF ECONOMIC MAGNITUDES …
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Show me what community looks like! : designing a popular education curriculum for a Los Angeles-based CLT
… LA and explores radical alternative housing, economic democracy, land use and rights, and the legacy of US housing discrimination. It aims to empower residents to establish community control in their transition from being renters to becoming joint owners and representatives of a community. The …
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From Vacant to Valuable: Building Community Wealth through Brownfield Redevelopment in Legacy Industrial Cities
… in domestic manufacturing have renewed economic interest in legacy industrial cities across the United States. As these places attract new development, it is critical to safeguard against repeating the harms of the 20th-century exodus of industry and manufacturing jobs—when offshoring, …
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Uncle Sam on the Family Farm: Farm Policy and the Business of Southern Agriculture, 1933-1965
… and South Carolina. It argues that restricted economic democracy in the Farm State - the full array of agriculture regulations, programs, and agencies associated with the federal government - enabled policy makers to adhere strictly to the principles of progressive farming and parity in the …
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Securitizing suburbia : the financialization of single-family rental housing and the need to redefine "risk"
… and helps advance a more proactive vision of economic justice and economic democracy.
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Exceptionally un-American? why co-operative enterprises struggle in the United States, but scale elsewhere
In response to record economic inequality and climate change, global actors are turning to alternative institutions to build a just, sustainable "new economy", predicated on "economic democracy". These alternatives include cooperative ownership of enterprise, promoted by social movements, …
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The Roles of a Basque-inspired Cooperative in the Community Based Economic Development in Cleveland, Ohio
… to suit the local contexts including socioeconomic characteristics and culture.
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Freedom, Markets, and Equality in Eighteenth Century Philosophy
… It reconstructs their defense of liberal economic reforms, including free trade (domestic and foreign) and the deregulation of markets in labor and land. Through this reconstruction, I demonstrate how the normative foundations of early free market thought were contested throughout the …
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Estudio y avance de experiencias de construcción de riqueza comunitaria para la ciudad de Madrid
Los economistas creen que las ciudades y las metrópolis estimulan el crecimiento económico a través de círculos virtuosos de atracción de población, densificación del espacio, fomento de la innovación, especialización y rentabilidad social y económica de inversiones públicas y privadas. Sin …
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Employee participation and voice in companies : a legal perspective
… with a view to achieving the triple bottom-line (economic, social and environmental performance) and, thus, should manage the business in a sustainable manner. An important question in company law today: In whose interest should the company be managed? Corporate governance needs to address the …