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Mapping the Past, Present, and Future of Teaching Leadership Chairs in Canada: A Report

Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
We explore the advent and initiatives of teaching leadership chairs – modeled after the Canada Research Chair framework – to instill individuals or small groups of teaching leaders at various centres across the country to stimulate educational change. In
David M. Andrews, Judy A. K. Bornais, Ken M. Cramer   +2 more
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Examining the Role of Social Justice Grantmaking on Childcare Advocacy and Community Organizing Among Women of Color

Social Work and Society, 2018
The Ms. Foundation for Women funds U.S. grassroots-led organizations to improve systemic conditions and ensure the safety, health, and economic opportunity for all.
Nicole Robinson, Aleyamma Mathew
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Transformational Leadership Qualities of Effective Grassroots Refugee-Led Organizations

Social Sciences
This qualitative study investigates the behaviors and strategies of effective leadership teams within ethnic community-based organizations (ECBOs) operating in the United States that consist of leaders who are themselves former refugees. Through analysis
Eugene Judson, Meseret F. Hailu, Nalini Chhetri   +2 more
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Participation of Women Leaders in Local Decision-Making Structures in Tanzania: A Case of Dodoma Urban and Bahi Districts

Journal of African Politics
Women participation in politics has captured the attention of many scholars and women rights activists world-wide. However, the question whether women political leaders make impact in local governance decision making structures or not remains under ...
Lily Makalanga
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Party leadership selection and party leaders’ powers: Empowered grassroots or leader-centric parties?

Parliamentary Affairs
Abstract This paper explores whether parties’ leadership selection procedures carry broader implications for intraparty power. Prior scholarship has documented an ongoing shift in the ways that parties select their leaders, with a growing tendency to include grassroots supporters in such decisions, sometimes described as ‘plebiscitary ...
Thomas Poguntke, Susan Scarrow, Paul D Webb   +2 more
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Alternative, Grassroots, And Rogue Leadership: A Case For Alternating Leaders In Organizations

Journal of Applied Business Research (JABR), 2011
<p>The article examines traditional understanding of top-down organizational leadership against spontaneous, self-initiated leadership/followership theory. It also denotes the relationship between spontaneous and self-initiated expression of alternative, grassroots, and rogue leadership as a construct of alternating leadership behaviors.
Darlene Andert, Alan Platt, George Alexakis   +2 more
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Finding Political Opportunities: Civil Society, Industrial Power, and the Governance of Nanotechnology in the European Union

Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2016
The European Union encourages and institutionalizes participation by environmental, consumer, and labor organizations in the governance of nanotechnology.
Anna Lamprou, David J. Hess
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Resilience of Grassroots Leaders Involved in LGBT Issues at a Catholic University [PDF]

Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2017
This case study examined the sources of resilience utilized by staff and faculty grassroots leaders at a Jesuit, Catholic university addressing the LGBT campus climate. Interviews with 31 grassroots leaders uncovered how self-authorship helped participants reconcile tensions between Church teachings and LGBT concerns, self-efficacy to make a difference
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Township Politics

African Journal of Political Science
This book review explores "Township Politics: Civic Struggle for a New South Africa," offering a comprehensive assessment of its content and significance.
Mpho Moalamedi
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Anti-leaders(hip) in Social Movement Organizations: The case of autonomous grassroots groups [PDF]

Organization, 2013
Through the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, the idea of horizontal, leaderless organization has come to the attention of the mass media. In this article we explore radical, participative-democratic alternatives to leadership through an empirical study of four Social Movement Organizations (SMOs).
Sutherland, Neil, Land, Christopher, Böhm, Steffen   +2 more
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