New York City has the largest council-sponsored Participatory Budgeting (PB) processes in North America. From its inception in Brazil, PB was a process that empowered the least-advantaged members of the community by providing a way to propose budget allocations through voting. This book reports...

This essay examines the discourse of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, two of the most prominent political comedians in America. Kenneth Burke's theories of perspective by incongruity and the comic frame provide a general structure for surveying Stewart and Colbert's comic strategies on their...

Over the past decade a remarkable number of revolutions worldwide imitated the touchstone youth movement Otpor, which played an influential role in ousting Serbian President Slobodan Milošević in 2000. Given the continual presence of Western organizations and resources in Otpor's uprising, I...

In this paper, we show that God is portrayed in the Hebrew Bible and in the Rabbinic literature — some of the very Hebrew texts that have influenced the three major world religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — as One who can be argued with and even changes his mind. Contrary to...