Democracy at work

Democracy at Work ? School Board Elections and Reform

Debates over urban school reform have become voluminous and heated, and scholarly research has focused primarily on the impact of various reforms. Research should also trace the impact of conflicts over political reform on voting in school board elections. We examine three school board elections in St. Louis between 2003 and 2006. In each election, the mayor organized a supported a slate of ref...

Rituals of Stalinist Culture at Work: Science and the Games of Intraparty Democracy circa 1948

T h e Lysenko case has become a symbol of the ideological dictate in science and its damaging consequences. It is often explained that in the years following World War 11, the Stalinist leadership launched an ideological and nationalistic campaign aimed at the creation of a Marxist-Leninist and/or distinctively Russian, non-Western science. Concepts and theories which were found idealistic or b...

How to make medicine work--autocracy or democracy?

Widening Inequality Means a Democracy at Risk

Cuba’s Attempts at Democracy: the Colony

One interesting question in Cuba's history is -Why did Cuba fail to become independent in the early part of the nineteenth century, at the same time as most countries in Latin America? Simple explanations such as slavery, economic conditions at the time or the special relation between Cuba and Spain are not very convincing by themselves. We present a framework recently developed for the analysi...