After having made a profound impact throughout the United States as well as across the globe, the Occupy movement confronted evictions at all of the major 'occupy' locations. Within days Occupy movements were disrupted by police action in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The...
(23) Comments | Posted November 29, 2011 | 2:41 PM
In the concluding remarks of his lecture "Capitalism and Democracy" (1991), Gabriel Almond, one of the most prominent political scientists of the 20th century, stated "that democracy and capitalism are both positively and negatively related, that they both support and subvert each other." Almond reached this conclusion after examining the...
(38) Comments | Posted November 11, 2011 | 4:21 PM
Since the emergence of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement a great deal of attention has been focused on establishing what this movement wants. To understand and get at this movement's demands, we asked the following open-ended question of respondents at three Occupy locations:
(263) Comments | Posted October 28, 2011 | 5:14 PM
In his recent article Polling the Occupy Wall Street Crowd, prominent pollster Douglas Schoen makes the case that embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement would cost President Obama and the Democratic Party leadership the 2012 elections. Schoen argues that the protesters "are bound by a deep commitment to...
(15) Comments | Posted January 19, 2012 | 10:08 AM