William Lloyd Garrison: Abolition, Democracy, and Radical Reform

Values, Participatory Democracy, and Health Care Reform

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this essay is to look at health reform using a framework of values. Values are the elements or characteristics that we find desirable or good about a system; they are the ideals that we strive to make a reality. Values lie at the core of any system. Values shape the organization and financing of health services. As we work to reform our health care system, a fundamen...

The Grimké Sisters: Radical Defenders of Women’s Rights and Abolition

Albania's radical agrarian reform.

The agrarian reform in Albania included free distribution of land to rural households and the complete break up of the former collective and state farms. These key features of the Albanian reform are in sharp contrast with other Central and Eastern European countries. Our paper explains the choice of the Albanian agricultural privatization and land reform process and the radical decollectivizat...

Social democracy and market reform in Australia and New Zealand

Social democratic governments in Australia and New Zealand adopted policies of radical free market reform, including financial deregulation, privatisation and public sector reform in the 1980s. Because of the absence of institutional obstacles to government action, reform was faster and more comprehensive in New Zealand than in Australia. The New Zealand reforms were associated with increasing ...

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...