Intersectionality at the grassroots

Electronic Government at the American Grassroots - 2002

Advancing E-Government at the Grassroots: Tortoise or Hare?

American grassroots governments have rushed to join the e-government revolution. Although there is a growing body of e-government literature, little of it is empirical. Using data from two nationwide surveys, we conduct a longitudinal examination of local government adoption of egovernment, Web site sophistication, the perceived impacts of e-government, and barriers to the adoption and sophisti...

Intersectionality and Leadership

The overall body of existing leadership diversity studies has focused only on one or two diversity attributes, missing the effects of multiple intersecting attributes. This study uses intersectionality theory to examine the interactions of surface level diversity attributes to dissect leader identity. Based on qualitative narratives and a substantial literature review, this study examines pheno...

Multiple Inequalities, Intersectionality and the European Union

The European Union (EU), a pioneer in gender equality policies, is moving from predominantly attending to gender inequality, towards policies that address multiple inequalities. This article argues that there are tendencies at EU level to assume an unquestioned similarity of inequalities, to fail to address the structural level and to fuel the political competition between inequalities. Based u...

GIS Implementation in the Grassroots

Sieber 15 Introduction Increasingly nonprofits are following the lead of public agencies and private industry by implementing a GIS. They are drawn to a GIS because it can combine large amounts of data from disparate sources and on different media, order them into layers or themes, and analyze or display various relationships. The greater promise of the technology, to nonprofits such as grassro...