Progressive Politics

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“The Tools You Need To Discover Who Your Are”

“The Tools You Need To Discover Who Your Are”

Aboriginal Learners in Selected Adult Learning Centre in Winnipeg

From: In Their Own Voices

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Local Strategy, SWOT, and Target Voters
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Local Strategy, SWOT, and Target Voters

Part 3. Beginning Your Campaign

From: Women Winning Office

In Local Strategy, SWOT, and Target Voters Nash examines different strategies to win. Topics discussed include inspiring, organizing, mobilizing, and the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and … 7 $0.70 Add
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Mirrors or Mirage

Mirrors or Mirage

Political Parties and Grassroots Movements

From: Quiet No More

Chapter four surveys the relationship between progressive political parties and grassroots activism; a case is made that a grassroots influence in electoral politics is emerging, but one … 46 $4.60 Add
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Modernizing the Party: 2000–2008
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Modernizing the Party: 2000–2008

From: From Layton to Singh

Chapter 1 examines the state of the New Democratic Party (NDP) as it entered into the twenty-first century. The chapter covers topics including a brief history of the NDP, the NDP’s success … 23 $2.30 Add
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Moving Forward

Moving Forward

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

Overcoming Impediments, Choosing Pathways – Connecting to Community – Criteria for Taking Action – Concluding Remarks on the Happiness Movement ; ; 8 $0.80 Add
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Neoliberal Common Sense
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Neoliberal Common Sense

The Stubborn Persistence of Neoliberalism

From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge

This chapter looks at the persistence of neoliberalism despite financial crises and electoral change, the existence of cultural hegemony in normalizing neoliberalist policies as mere common … 25 $2.50 Add
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Alexa!
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New Beginnings

From: Alexa!

Focusing more on her personal life, this chapter chronicles Alexa’s divorce, the loss of her father to Alzheimer’s, and the twilight years of her time as the leader of the NDP. 31 $3.10 Add
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One Piece of Advice
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One Piece of Advice

Part 7. Afterwords

From: Women Winning Office

In One Piece of Advice as the books conclusion Nash shares advice from some progressive activists and elected officials who have inspired her and this book. This includes people such as Dr. Jill … 9 $0.90 Add
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Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal Election
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Orange Crash: the 2015 Federal Election

From: From Layton to Singh

Chapter 4 examines the NDP’s failure to maintain the surge in popularity experienced under Layton’s leadership in the 2015 Federal Election. The chapter covers topics including … 19 $1.90 Add
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Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the media

Our bodies, our minds, mental shortcuts, and the media

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter Four focuses on why it is so difficult to make well informed discussions. The chapter explores our biological and psychological motivations behind our abilities towards good political … 27 $2.70 Add
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Our institutions

Our institutions

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter Six focuses how political institutions are formed, maintained, and how they condition the way we think and behave. Institutions set up rules, expectations, norms, punishments, and … 23 $2.30 Add
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Our milieu

Our milieu

From: Too Dumb for Democracy?

Chapter Five explores the conditions under which we tend to make the best decisions about complex issues, political or otherwise. We do best when we have lots of time and resources at our … 11 $1.10 Add
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Outcomes and opportunities
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Outcomes and opportunities

From: The Scandalous Rise of Inequality in Canada

In this chapter, the author asks to what extent we as a society should be concerned about factors affecting inequality of opportunity (such as race, ethnicity, gender, class) or instead about … 26 $2.60 Add
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Part 1: Mobilizing For Sustainability
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Part 1: Mobilizing For Sustainability

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 1 includes the following chapters: The Global Context for Sustainability – Sustainable Community Development – Policymaking for Sustainable Community Development – Planning … ; ; 91 $9.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development

Part 2 Section 1: Environmental Sustainability (Place)

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 2 Section 1 includes the following chapters: Natural Capital (Land, Water, Air, Waste, Energy) – Built Capital (Buildings, Landscapes, Travelways) ; ; 67 $6.70 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development

Part 2 Section 2: Economic Sustainability (Prosperity)

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 2 Section 2 includes the following chapters: Organizational Capital (Public, Nonprofit, Business, Civic) – Political Capital (Authority, Influence, Empowerment) – Financial … ; ; 68 $6.80 Add