What are the conditions and causal processes by which international financial remittances can promote development in migrant-sending countries? This dissertation develops an explanation for the …
Dailey overviews challenges and successes of community organizing at the several organizations she has worked with. Her early interests around domestic civil rights, global economies, …
Highlighted the challenge of building a base for an advocacy campaign with a small constituency; difficulty of isolation when not connected to other organizers or …
Organizer & Director of Northwest Community Organization (formed by Alinsky & Jack Egan), helped form National People’s Action, helped form and direct Metro Area Housing …
Long career with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI). Iowa CCI has had working relationships with National Peoples’ Action, Western Organization Resource Council; Center for …
The dissertation looks at the intersection of the economics of crime, policing and politics. Chapter 1 studies how police reported crime numbers respond to a …
This dissertation documents two important externalities of drug-related violence in Mexico: its effects on freedom of press that arise through the murder of journalists by …
Faith as a motivation for organizing; organizers develop skills that are useful and needed in other occupations. Worked for NPA in Chicago, Oregon Fair Share; …
Good explanation of the rationale behind forming organizing networks: as support organizations for local community organizing and as coordinators of statewide and national campaigns. Initially …
Dick Harmon worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) for 40 years and independently as the Director/Lead Organizer of Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives for 7 years. …
