Margaret Levi

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How labor unions create worker power (w/ Margaret Levi) YouTube video by TED Audio Collective

We’re in #bettertogether!
If you feel helpless, buried under an orange wave, or just need a boost check out this @chrisiduffy.bsky.social interview with @mlevi.bsky.social on the importance of communities of fate, organized labor, and trade unions
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Opinion | It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either (Gift Article) How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”

Takes on the tech oligarchy from @himself.bsky.social @dacemoglumit.bsky.social me and others: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

Political scientists’ letter about Trump administration: drive.google.com/file/u/0/d/1...

The Five Steps Towards Autocracy How Machiavelli can help us understand Trump.

As CASBS visiting scholar & fmr U.S. Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich expertly elucidates in the Persuasion substack, we're not witnessing chaos. Rather, we're witnessing a "deliberate and coherent application" of an infamous 500-year old playbook...

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The Social Science of Caregiving Caregiving is essential to the health and well-being of society. It shapes how we raise our children and how we tend to the ill, elderly, and disabled in our families and communities. We rely on paid ...

See the latest issue of Daedalus for what we coeditors believe should be the start of a far richer and science based discussion of the many facets of care, carers, and caregiving. www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...

NEW RELEASE

@alisongopnik.bsky.social, leader of CASBS's Social Science of Caregiving project, edits the new issue of Dædalus w/ @mlevi.bsky.social & Zachary Ugolnik

16 essays rethink the philosophical, psychological, biological, political & economic foundations of care

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When politics dams feedback The cybernetic approach to bureaucracy is promising, but we need to account for politics, too.

Stanford's Margaret Levi says Davies' work is key for public management but adds: our crisis isn’t just info issues—it’s also about whether those in power ignore hard truths.
hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/when-polit...

The piping of American government has multiple channels: civil service, contractors, consultants.

That system was built to make orgs run lean, but it came with a fatal flaw: communication.

In Hypertext, we unpack that.

The Global Quest for Educational Equity The explosive growth in the number of migrant, refugee, and marginalized students globally has put great stress on the schools tasked with educating them. Schools and teachers rarely have the knowledg...

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Check out this issue of Daedalus edited by distinguished academic and former @casbsstanford.bsky.social fellow Professor James Banks