Aging has long lacked the kind of vocal constituency that raised awareness of H.I.V. and breast cancer; as a species, we stink at mobilizing against a deferred collective calamity (see: climate change).
But there's been a surprising twist in the life of the classic book: "A Pattern Language" is becoming a dot-com, one that may serve as a launchpad to build the kind of global constituency Mr. Alexander has always hoped for.
One of the challenges we have as a party, unlike the two larger parties, is they can kind of disperse constituencies and candidacies for winnable seats a bit like consolation prizes around to candidates.
Both tactics carry risks for leaders who have been criticized for quickly resorting to obstructionism and for failing to concentrate on building the kind of broad constituencies that would allow them to mount a significant challenge to the Brotherhood's popularity.
He has long been one of the computer industry's most respected executives and his new role as the anti-Microsoft faction's front man has turned him into a kind of corporate statesman--his constituency being Silicon Valley, or, more precisely, a loose federation of companies that collaborate on new technologies known as NOIS, after its 4 leading members--Netscape, Oracle, I.B.M., and Sun.
"I think both parties kind of are married to their constituencies and their powerful interests, and they're unwilling to challenge them in the way I did as mayor".
The owners have cultivated a constituency among the kind of gallery circulators and style trackers who turn up in Paper magazine.
There was a constituency for the kind of liberalism that has seemed predominant in the quarter century since Bill Clinton and Tony Blair — globalist and committed to free markets, while also dedicated to the project of social justice — but it wasn't an especially large one.
"They're a very amenable constituency for that kind of taxation," he said.
There is a bigger, more disturbing truth here: that there is a constituency for this kind of politics in America.
