In a previous post, I outlined the main ideas of Thomas Piketty’s monumental book Capital and Ideology. In this blog, I seek to outline ideas based on Piketty and others for addressing inequality going forward. What should we take away from Capital and Ideology? Perhaps Piketty is setting up the sequel to Capital and Ideology,…
This is a longer post, but the book is 1000+ pages. This post focuses on the main ideas from Piketty’s book, while the following blog focuses on the key insights for current efforts to address inequality. “Inequality is neither economic nor technological; it is ideological and political…These choices [about policy, markets, role of the state,…
This post first appeared on the International Budget Partnership’s blog here Governments around the world are at a critical juncture. Democracy is continuing to erode in countries across the globe, with increasing threats to citizens’ freedoms and restrictions on civic organizations. At the same time inequality is high and rising. Frustration with governments (democratic or…
Public audits are important tools for accountability, but whether they are effective depends on the analysis that shapes them and the strategies through which they are leveraged.
Since I seem incapable of writing blogs these days, I thought I would go back to basics. Read a book, write a review. Here’s hoping this helps me get back in the habit of blogging more regularly. In the book Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis, author George Monbiot…
Civil society around the world struggles to democratize budgets. Here’s what we are learning.
Given the events of the last 24 hours, seemed appropriate to repost this blog here (originally posted on the International Budget Partnership site). Change a few words and it applies to the U.S. context, not just today or on Jan. 20, but always. There’s been a slow-dawning realization among open governance advocates that pushing for…
In their introductory essay to the recent IDS Bulletin on Opening Governance (the entire issue is open access), Duncan Edwards and Rosie McGee critically appraise developments in the open government/governance space over the past several years, since the landmark 2010 review commissioned by the Transparency and Accountability Initiative. The authors reflect on recent debates and…
Back in September, T/AI organized a roundtable in Delhi with members of the TALEARN and COPASAH communities of practice and activists from several notable Indian social movements, such as Right to Food, Right to Information, Right to Health, Dalit rights, etc. Over the two days of the ‘Mobilizing Accountability’ meeting, we reflected on the experiences…
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