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Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding

K. Sabeel Rahman, Hollie Russon Gilman, and Joelle Gamble discuss tying policies to programmatic decision-making and stakeholder participation; democratizing and expanding community control of public goods; and creating more responsive, accountable governments.

The Struggle to Overcome Racism

By SSIR Editors 1

The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers has ignited protests and focused the national discourse on institutional racism and how to eradicate it. SSIR's editors have assembled a list of resources to help leaders of social change and activists trying to put an end to this intractable American scourge.