title: Political Plan of Taking over the USA Congress by Democratic Socialists in the Post-Obama Era
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metadata.value: Zhezhko-Braun, Irina
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-05-26T13:05:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-05-26T13:05:00Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: Zhezhko-Braun I. Political Plan of Taking over the USA Congress by Democratic Socialists in the Post-Obama Era. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2020, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 160– 177.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu23.2020.110
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17877
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) offered a new political agenda for the USA,
  the Green New Deal, which was picked up by the 2020 Democratic candidates running for President.
  The article analyzes the case of AOC and deals with the following questions: What organizations
  stand behind this project? What technologiеs and tactics did they use? Can their political
  technologies be considered as manipulative towards democratic elections? Our analysis reveals
  the two organizations behind the Cortez’s elections, Justice Democrats and The Young Turks,
  as well as their new polittechnological project known as a Brand New Congress. It’s goal is to
  replace members of Congress who do not share their radical socialist agenda with new members
  supported by their organizations. Thesе organizations of social organizers have participated in
  several presidential elections since 2004 and have invented political technology called “big organizing”
  or “distributed organizing.” The distributed organizing model moves away from the traditional
  hierarchical management structure, or the top-down model, and opts for the bottom-up
  model where volunteer leaders are assigned more autonomy in local campaigning efforts while
  they are still supervised by campaign managers. The authors of distributed organizing model also
  call it revolution tactics. The article describes other new political technologies used in the project:
  casting candidates from protest minorities, writing political and legislative initiatives for them as well as proposals, and assigning elected candidates their staffers. Social organizers claim that
  the revolution they work for tends to revitalize the democracy in the USA while, as it shown in
  the article, they in fact work around the democratic institutions, including elections, and aim to
  fundamentally transform the social system in the USA. The analysis makes these technologies
  visible and therefore open for professional and public discussion as well as for working out countermeasures
  to their manipulations.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 16; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Big Organizing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Brand New Congress
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Party of Democrats of the USA
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political technology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Justice Democrats
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: presidential elections
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Zack Exley
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Political Plan of Taking over the USA Congress by Democratic Socialists in the Post-Obama Era
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metadata.value: Article
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