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Reading List: Strengthening Democracy Through Social Innovation

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Within the social sector, nonprofit organizations and philanthropists are facing demands for greater inclusion, power-sharing, and more democratic governance. The Power of Political Innovation March 15, 2023 at 10 a.m. Philanthropy Needs to Stop Its Toxic Intellectualizing. March 16, 2023 at 9:05 a.m.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. A 1996 political science journal article, for example, argued that policies were most likely to be effective in addressing race and economic inequality if they were targeted to benefit Black Americans but “advanced and defended on universalistic grounds.”

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

4 But considered more broadly, corporate capture extends far beyond the capture of a few government agencies; indeed, over time, it has developed a stranglehold on our economy and life. But even absent open dictatorship, US government today is less a democracy than a plutocracy, ruled by the wealthy few.