Prevailing policies and practices in teaching suppress teachers’ autonomy in the classroom, leaving students subjected to scripted programs, standardized curricula, and passive rote learning (Leistyna, Lavandez, & Nelson, 2004; Sleeter, 2005). Such forms of teaching often run counter to those that support critical thinking, joy, and equity-oriented learning (Christensen, 2009; Nieto & Bode, 200...

We ran principal component regressions of growth and income on existing measures of institutions to assess which institutions are the most important for economic performance. We varied the sets of variables to search for robust effects of institutions. Our major finding is that broadly defined institutions of checks and balances limiting the power of the executive are the most robust institutio...

This contribution to Science & Society's special issue on socialist economic organisation brings together the basic model proposed in Devine (1988) and subsequent work developing and elaborating that model (Adaman and Devine 1994, 1996, 1997, mimeo; Devine 1992, 1997, forthcoming). It is part of a project which is designed to assist in the revival of the movement for socialism by developing a w...

Social movements rarely start out by posing radical challenges to dominant social warrants. They generally focus on modest and melioristic reforms, on immediate obstacles rather than abstract enemies. But the practical activities of struggle produce new possibilities and prohibitions that compel activists to change themselves in the process of changing societies. Rebels need revolutions, argues...

This paper examines some of the ethical problems involved in undertaking Internet research and draws on historical accounts as well as contemporary studies to offer an analysis of the issues raised. It argues that privacy is a misleading and confusing concept to apply to the Internet, and that the concept of nonalienation is more resourceful in addressing the many ethical issues surrounding Int...

Geo-collaboration appears when individuals or groups of individuals work together to solve spatial decision-making problems facilitated by geospatial information technologies. In this paper we focus on current developments in geo-collaboration where we take an example of public participatory geoinformation systems (PP GIS). This research field focuses on the issues related to the participation ...

This paper draws on examples of successful stakeholder collaboration in existing projects to reason the importance of collaboration in education quality improvement. Stakeholder collaboration in the definition, implementation, measurement, and evaluation of education quality improvement projects arguably increases the likelihood that the resulting policy will more effectively meet the needs of ...

Health promotion researchers are increasingly conducting Community-Based Participatory Research in an effort to reduce health disparities. Despite efforts towards greater inclusion, research teams continue to regularly exclude diverse representation from data analysis efforts. The DEPICT model for collaborative qualitative analysis is a democratic approach to enhancing rigour through inclusion ...

This article introduces this special issue on Participatory Democracy and Inequality, identifying both the primary claims made by modern iteration of participatory democracy, as well main challenges faced democrats, drawing a range literature, empirical theoretical. Despite these challenges, it finds cause for optimism, based trajectory recent research suggests there might be number potential m...