Peter Levine has an interesting post about the levers of democracy, published last week. It's a very interesting angle on the problem of changing our political system, and it is closel related to my discussion of transformational politics earlier. There are a few things I could nitpick over, like his omission of religion and the workplace as levers of change (unless you count unions), a bit too much abstraction in the line about "nonprofits", an inability to account for the importance of family and friends in shaping political change (and the effect of such family-altering movements as the feminist movement or the evangelical movement), and a technical inaccuracy about the growth of unions (they are not shrinking any more.) But it's a good list, and very interesting.
Someone should really take a look at this list and flesh it out with good examples and more serious consideration of how to employ all of these various levers in concert. I'd love to see something like that.
(H/t Mike Connery, though for some reason I can't find the actual blog post.)
