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Democratic Organizing and Political Change: Toward a Research Agenda

Abstract Democracy depends on people having the capacity to act collectively and navigate difference, yet political science often overlooks the transformative work that enables this. This essay foregrounds democratic organizing: sustained, relational, and strategic work that transforms people – reshaping their identiti...

Educating for character in imperfect societies: the right and responsibility to learn to say that 2 + 2 = 4

The End of DEI

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is one of the most polarizing issues in business and society. Advocates claim that DEI enhances fairness, while critics argue it undermines meritocracy. The problems often stem from the practice of DEI—reducing it to demographic diversity—rather than its principle. This paper pr...

«Soft Collectivism»: An Ethical Critique of the ESG Regime

The ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) regime has consolidated as the principal normative architecture of corporate activity in Europe. Academic critique of the phenomenon has been predominantly technical—divergence among rating agencies, agency problems, and empirical ineffectiveness—ethical critique remains...

How the Land Speaks: “Native Culture” as Mediating Politics in Individual–Group Relationality

Indigenous peoples are often valorized as automatically politicized collective subjects, backgrounding the precise mechanics of individual-to-group political formation. In the case of “Native Hawaiian culture”, a locally invoked category of norms, practices, and knowledge, this article examines its semiotic bases for...

BRICS development: multicentricity, network structure and expansion

The article discusses the organizational evolution of the BRICS association in the context of a fundamental transformation of global political organization. The authors proceed from the premise that contemporary global politics is increasingly moving away from a purely hierarchical model toward a more complex, multicen...