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Swarming and Followership; Distance Leading

Public Policy Blog

Image: Faggard, 2013. As Faggard concludes his 2013 paper [diagram], “the process of forming online groups capable of creating tension to overwhelm decision makers or government forces through a communication-based social swarm is possible. 2007) In Athena’s Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age, Santa Monica: RAND.

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28 September 2017 | Rebuilding after the storms: The constitutional foundation, By Robert K. Christensen*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Some of these include: reducing citizen estrangement by practicing democratic administration over bureaucratic administration (Durant and Ali 2013); [v] fostering citizen engagement (King and Stivers 1998); facilitating deliberative democracy (Nabatchi 2010); [vi] and creating communities of participation and inclusion (Feldman and Khademian 2007).

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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Social Media Definitions. 2013) suggests that social activism in online spaces such as YouTube is not easily defined, but is adapted to suit movement needs—which makes social media a popular and flexible venue for activism but also highlights the challenges for scholars studying such venues. A study by Vragara et al.,

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Government Mortgage Interest Rates: A Serious Discussion about the Intertwined Topics of Risk Adjustment and Cross-subsidies

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is important to clearly state that the analysis in this article is based on the economic reality that if a loan does not have an interest rate that is appropriately risk-adjusted for its creditworthiness, then by definition there will be cross-subsidies in operation, even if that is not overtly stated.