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'''New Vision Institute for Policy and Progress''' is a national network of young as well as established scholars who encourage progressive public policy. The network works on institution-building, generating strong bonds between progressive academics and intellectuals and progressive politicians and policy-makers.<ref>[http://www.newvisioninstitute.org/about/ About]</ref> | '''New Vision Institute for Policy and Progress''' is a national network of young as well as established scholars who encourage progressive public policy. The network works on institution-building, generating strong bonds between progressive academics and intellectuals and progressive politicians and policy-makers.<ref>[http://www.newvisioninstitute.org/about/ About]</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 02:55, 7 July 2017
Template:TOCnestleft New Vision Institute for Policy and Progress is a national network of young as well as established scholars who encourage progressive public policy. The network works on institution-building, generating strong bonds between progressive academics and intellectuals and progressive politicians and policy-makers.[1]
It is made up of a team of approximately 20 doctoral students and professors at Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Michigan, and the University of California.[2]
Soros connection
On November 29, 2006 Open Society Institute held a roundtable discussion entitled "How Do Progressives Connect Ideas to Action?"
- Individuals and organizations with similarly progressive goals often dilute their power by working alone or even working at cross-purposes. As Americans who are politically left of center move forward, questions of infrastructure, communication, and collaboration are particularly important.
Participants included several key leaders of the "progressive" movement:[3]
- Deepak Bhargava Center for Community Change
- Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future.
- Rosa Brooks Open Society Institute
- Anna Burger Service Employees International Union
- Eric Foner Columbia University, Department of History
- Michel Gelobter Redefining Progress
- Hendrik Hertzberg The New Yorker
- Alan Jenkins Opportunity Agenda
- Gara LaMarche Open Society Institute
- Jal Mehta New Vision Institute for Policy and Progress
- David Moss The Tobin Project
- Iara Peng Young People For
- Stephanie Robinson The Jamestown Project at Yale
- Joel Rogers University of Wisconsin Law School
- Andrea Batista Schlesinger Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
- Katrina vanden Heuvel The Nation editor.
- John Podesta Center for American Progress
- Michael Waldman The Brennan Center for Justice
- Matthew Yglesias The American Prospect