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The Broadbent Institute is Canada’s preeminent social democratic think-tank, founded in 2011 by Ed Broadbent, and guided by the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy.

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Perspectives is a journal for political economy and strategy for building a world that is just and equitable. Guided by the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy, the journal refines analysis and progressive inquiry of political economy, public policy, history, and social movements, to bring them into public debates and political fora.

Fraser has argued that much scholarship in political science and democratic theory on these issues is hampered by “politicism”: an inclination to view the political in separation from other social spheres, which fails to appreciate the structural nature of contemporary crises. Fraser argues that the political arena is important because it is here that collective regulatory powers are exercised, however it needs to be situated within a broader understanding of the social totality to understand how it is affected by crisis dynamics in other spheres and how it might contribute to attenuating, or resolving, these.

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