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Public Diplomacy and Soft Power
(Sage Publications, 2008)
Soft power is the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction rather than coercion or payment. A country's soft power rests on its resources of culture, values, and policies. A smart power ...
A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
(American Political Science Association, 2000)
Voters in the Crosshairs
(The American Prospect, 2001)
New technologies were supposed to enable campaigns to reach more voters. Instead, they ended up fragmenting and alienating much of the electorate.
Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture, 1959-1966
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Duty to the Race: African American Fraternal Orders and the Legal Defense of the Right to Organize
(Project Muse, 2004)
In 1904, leaders of three major white fraternal orders launched a nationally coordinated legislative and legal campaign to force their black counterparts out of existence, a struggle that spread to at least 29 states and ...
The Effects of College Counseling on High-Achieving, Low-Income Students
(2009)
This paper reports the results of a pilot study, using a randomized controlled trial to provide college counseling to high-achieving students from relatively poor families. We followed 107 high school seniors through the ...
Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality
(Springer-Verlag, 2009)
For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of African Americans. The position that one takes often reflects ideological bias. ...
Linking International Agricultural Research Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market ...
Evolution of Models to Support Community and Policy Action with Science: Balancing Pastoral Livelihoods and Wildlife Conservation in Savannas of East Africa
(National Academy of Sciences, 2009)
We developed a “continual engagement” model to better integrate knowledge from policy makers, communities, and researchers with the goal of promoting more effective action to balance poverty alleviation and wildlife ...
Johannesburg and Beyond
(2002)