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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. Philanthropy Needs to Stop Its Toxic Intellectualizing. March 16, 2023 at 9:05 a.m. Place-Based Strategies for Reviving America by Seth D. Kaplan (Subscriber-only article.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Until quite recently, many economic justice movement organizations were “race neutral” in their approach. This was seen as a politically smart means to avert White backlash. 21 In other words, until quite recently, it was considered politically smart for economic justice groups to avoid talking about race. Sniderman et al.,

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Corporate Capture—Can We Find a Way Out?

NonProfit Quarterly

Going even further back, in 1977, Charles Lindblom, onetime American Political Science Association president, authored Politics and Markets: The World’s Political-Economic Systems , in which he argued that in capitalism, business occupies a “privileged position” that offers business elites disproportionate policy influence.