Populist Agenda Research Articles

A Guide to Ethnic Minority Neighborhood Outreach

American Health Decisions, 505 South Main Street, Orange, CA 92668, USA, $15, pp 32 A Guide to Ethnic Minority Neighborhood Outreach derives from the “Oregon experiment,” that bold attempt to open up health policy making to a more populist agenda. This booklet is intended as a “candid straight-from-the-heart assessment of what works and what doesn't” in community based initiatives. It sounds ideal for the new, evidence led, primary care driven, community caring NHS. As in Britain, the Americans found a low turnout of “minority people” at public meetings. Their solution was a positive strategy of outreach. To arrive at this conclusion, they make the point that “though it may be difficult to openly recognise, everyone …

Revolutionary communications in Cuba: Ignoring new world orders

One of the changes brought by the 1959 Cuban Revolution (July 26th Movement) against the Batista dictatorship was the reorganization and reconstitution of the country's communication and information infrastructure. Facing an almost immediate siege from the efforts of the Eisenhower and Kennedy governments, the CIA and Cuban exiles to overthrow the new government, the revolution was propelled on the basis of a permanent threat from the United States. The threat perception helped legitimate a socialist, internationalist, and populist agenda, leading to a politics of command in the treatment of mass media and other communication functions. This analysis looks at current structures of Cuban communications in the context of the social programs attempted by the Castro regime and the historical and continuing legacies of American interventionism.

The Uncomfortable Truth about NAFTA: It's Foreign Policy, Stupid

likely consequences of the agreement, nor is the debate's outcome likely to turn on any serious examination of the evidence. It is as hopeless to try to argue with many of nafta's opponents as it would have been to try to convince William Jennings Bryan's followers that free silver was not the answer to farmers' problems. Indeed, the parallel is quite close. The populism of the 1890s represented a des perate attempt to defend agricultural America against deep economic forces that were changing it into an industrial nation. The choice of a monetary standard had very little to do with the real problems of the farm sector; a burst of inflation might have given some highly indebted farmers a brief respite, but it would have done nothing to reverse or even materially slow the industrializing trend. Nonetheless, the opposition between free silver and the standard was an easily understood symbol?you shall not crucify this country on a cross of gold was the nineteenth-century equivalent of a sound bite. And so the almost irrelevant demand for free silver became the core of the populist agenda. Similarly, the hard-core opposition to nafta is rooted in a modern populism