{"id":35294,"date":"2026-02-18T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=35294"},"modified":"2026-02-18T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:33:44","slug":"the-civic-stakes-of-organizational-disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=35294","title":{"rendered":"The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new <em>Stanford Social Innovation Review<\/em> series examines how organizations should handle disagreement. Tufts University&#8217;s Tisch College of Civic Life is proud to be a co-presenter of this series. Tisch College Professor of the Practice <a href=\"https:\/\/tischcollege.tufts.edu\/people\/faculty\/ahmmad-brown\">Ahmmad Brown<\/a> is the curator and editor, and our colleague Nancy Marks even provided the professional art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first article is by our dean, Dayna Cunningham, and me. It is entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ssir.org\/articles\/entry\/organizational-disagreement-civic-stakes#\">The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement<\/a>.&#8221; We consider the value of disagreement and dissent in different kinds of organizations (a social movement, a firm, and a university). We advocate for pluralism&#8211;not neutrality&#8211;as the guiding ideal. We argue that how organizations handle disagreement matters not only for their performance but also for the democracy more broadly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The citation: is Levine, P., &amp; Cunningham, D. L. (2026). The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement.\u00a0<em>Stanford Social Innovation Review<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.48558\/EYWC-EA67<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Stanford Social Innovation Review series examines how organizations should handle disagreement. Tufts University&#8217;s Tisch College of Civic Life is proud to be a co-presenter of this series. Tisch College Professor of the Practice Ahmmad Brown is the curator and editor, and our colleague Nancy Marks even provided the professional art. The first article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35296,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35294\/revisions\/35296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}