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the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Hartmut Rosa (2016),
Steffen Mau • The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
Starting projects and embracing “theories of change” became de rigeur .
Paul Musgrave • Move Slow and Fix Things
This leads directly to the second often underestimated democratic institution is civic education.
Albert Wenger • We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
Stiglitz employs Isaiah Berlin’s positive and negative freedoms, and later threads the needle: neoliberalism believes only in ‘freedom to do’, and disparages the need of government to constrain corporations and the wealthy for the good of the rest:
workfutures • Doing Too Little
A peaceful transition of power between elected governments is one of the crucial aspects of representative democracies.
Albert Wenger • We Must Strengthen Our Democratic Institutions
escalatory perspective