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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Mark Carney, Stephen Gordon and the Globe and Mail’s credibility problem
I’ve been following Stephen Gordon since he was the first to really publicize the Harper government’s unconscionable scrapping of the mandatory long-form census. His economic analyses in the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and Worthwhile Canadian Initiative have been for the … Continue reading
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What a century-old political science theory can tell us about the future of online activism (spoiler: a heck of a lot)
One of my old Carleton professors, Glen Williams, always used to make time in his first-year political science intro course to teach about Robert Michel’s Iron Law of Oligarchy, which Michels came up with almost a century ago, in 1911. … Continue reading
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Tagged charismatic leadership, internet activism, Internet blackout, iron law of oligarchy, occupy-wall-street, online activism, SOPA
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