Building a Political Constituency for Urban School Reform

Building Capacity for Urban Education Reform in Promise Neighborhoods

n t h e l e a d-u p to the presidential election, then-presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama outlined a comprehensive place-based agenda he would, if elected, pursue to improve the lives of low-income residents in urban neighborhoods across the country. In that speech, delivered in July 2007, Senator Obama proposed to infuse poor neighborhoods with a mix of maternal and early childhood fa...

Political Will, Constituency Building, and Public Support in Rule of Law Programs

Building a Constituency for State Parks : The Missouri Experience

t a time of ever more constrained finances and increasing demands on state parks, the support of a constituency with a statewide focus on the health and integrity of a park system as a whole can be critical. This paper assesses Missouri’s experience with constituency groups, including, in the past two decades, a citizen organization devoted solely to state parks and historic sites, the Missouri...

Political Liberalization without Democratization: Pan Wei’s proposal for political reform

This paper is a response to Pan Wei’s rule of law regime reform proposal. It agrees with Pan that the direction of political reform taken and discussed inside China is indeed different from the democratization that has been pushed by outside pro-democracy activists, including Chinese dissidents. While some Chinese scholars and think-tank analysts talk about political reform, they are not propos...

Pension Reform and Political Risk