Editing New World Alliance (section)

==== Political platform ====
{{quote box|width=35%|quote="The Transformation Platform of the New World Alliance is different from conventional political platforms in fundamental ways. ...  It is an attempt to ''go beyond the polarity of left-against-right'' by integrating the highest values in our nation's conservative and liberal heritage with the learning that has taken place in recent social movements. ...  It begins – but only ''just'' begins – a reconceptualization or paradigm change ''regarding the very nature of politics''.  We recognize that public policy is only one "face" of politics.  Equally important political work takes place in the community, the workplace, and in personal development and interpersonal relationships."|source=– New World Alliance, introduction to ''A Transformation Platform: The Dialogue Begins'', 1981.<ref>Paulson, ''Odyssey'', p.&nbsp;501 (quoting the Alliance's platform, emphases in Paulson's quoted text).</ref>|style=padding:8px}}

The Alliance produced a 98-page political platform that achieved what one commentator claimed was wide circulation.<ref name=Paulson />  ''A Transformation Platform: The Dialogue Begins'' discussed crime and justice, economics, science and technology, health, the environment, global affairs, and more.<ref name=Lipnack />  It made about 300 specific policy proposals.<ref name=Stein />  But it sought to do more than provide good ideas.  Bob Olson, chair of the Alliance, tried to explain to the [[Association for Humanistic Psychology]] why he felt the platform was unique:

<blockquote> ... we call [it] a ''Living Platform''.  The platform offers concrete political proposals, but doesn't purport to offer final answers.  It includes commentary and dissenting opinion, and it asks readers to criticize it and help improve it, so that over the years ahead it can serve as a focus for thousands of people to cooperate in thinking through the changes we need to make.<ref>Olson, "The New," p.&nbsp;15.</ref></blockquote>