Editing New World Alliance (section)

=== Naming the Alliance's politics  ===
The New World Alliance has been described by many terms other than transformational – among them, [[Paradigm shift|new paradigm]],<ref>Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, ''Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out'', Ballantine Books, 1994, p.&nbsp;70. {{ISBN|978-0-345-36983-3}}.</ref> [[Marilyn Ferguson|Aquarian Conspiracy]],<ref name=Olson>Bob Olson with Marilyn Saunders, interviewer, "[https://web.archive.org/web/20180711021842/http://www.ahpweb.org/images/stories/archive_pdfs/1980/December1980.pdf The New World Alliance: Toward a Transformational Politics]", ''AHP Newsletter'', December 1980, pp.&nbsp;14–16.  A publication of the [[Association for Humanistic Psychology]].</ref>{{refn|The reference is to Marilyn Ferguson's book ''The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s''.<ref name=Ferguson>Marilyn Ferguson, ''The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s'', Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc., 1980.  {{ISBN|978-0-87477-191-6}}.</ref>  Of the seven "Related books of interest" listed in Ferguson's chapter on politics,<ref>Ferguson, ''Aquarian'', p.&nbsp;434.</ref> two were by members of the Alliance's Governing Council,<ref name=Ogilvy>James Ogilvy, ''Many Dimensional Man: Decentralizing Self, Society, and the Sacred'', Oxford University Press, 1977.  {{ISBN|978-0-19-502231-5}}.</ref><ref name=Satin>Mark Satin, ''New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society'', Delta Books / Dell Publishing Co., 1979.  {{ISBN|978-0-440-55700-5}}.</ref> and a third was by a founding sponsor of the Alliance's newsletter.<ref name=Vasconcellos>John Vasconcellos, ''A Liberating Vision: Politics for Growing Humans'', Impact Publishers, 1979.  {{ISBN|978-0-915166-17-6}}.</ref>|group=nb}} [[New Age]]-oriented,<ref name=Wells>Alison Wells and Stanley Commons, "Moving Politics With Spirit (And Greyhound)," ''New Realities'' magazine, June–July 1979, pp.&nbsp;23–25.  The authors are identified as journal editor and executive director, respectively, of Self Determination, a California-wide organization advocating personal and political change.</ref>{{refn|Self Determination was characterized as an exemplary transformational political organization in Marilyn Ferguson's book ''The Aquarian Conspiracy''.  According to Ferguson, it was founded in 1976 by California state assemblyman [[John Vasconcellos]] and other politicians and citizens to encourage Californians to take responsibility for their lives.<ref name=Self />|group=nb}} postliberal,<ref>Mark Satin, ''New Options for America: The Second American Experiment Has Begun'', The Press at California State University, Fresno, 1991, p.&nbsp;6.  {{ISBN|978-0-8093-1794-3}}.</ref> post-socialist,<ref name=Middle>Mark Satin, ''Radical Middle: The Politics We Need Now'', Westview Press and Basic Books, 2004, p.&nbsp;29.  {{ISBN|978-0-8133-4190-3}}.</ref> and [[Green politics|Green]].<ref name=Parkin>Sara Parkin, ''Green Parties: An International Guide'', Heretic Books Ltd., 1989, p.&nbsp;294. {{ISBN|978-0-946097-27-2}}.</ref>  A [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] magazine found the Alliance's newsletter to be "surprisingly libertarian,"<ref>Robert Poole, Jr. and Christine Dorffi, "[https://archive.org/details/sim_reason_1981-11_13_7/page/20/mode/2up?q=new+age+budget+biting+robert+poole+jr+and+christine+dorffi New Age Budget Biting]," ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason: Free Minds and Free Markets]]'', vol. 13, issue no. 7 (November 1981), p.&nbsp;20.</ref> and a book about [[radical centrism]] characterized the Alliance as radical centrist.<ref name=Ivor>Satin, ''Radical'', pp.&nbsp;187–88.</ref>

However, "transformational" has been the term most frequently used to describe the Alliance's politics, both by political scientists<ref name=Stein>Arthur Stein, ''Seeds of the Seventies: Values, Work, and Commitment in Post-Vietnam America'', University Press of New England, 1985, pp.&nbsp;134–38. {{ISBN|978-0-87451-343-1}}.  The author is identified as a political scientist at [[University of Rhode Island]].</ref><ref name=Preface>"Preface: Paths to Transformational Politics," in Stephen Woolpert, Christa Daryl Slaton, and Edward W. Schwerin, eds., ''Transformational Politics: Theory, Study, and Practice'', State University of New York Press, 1998, p.&nbsp;ix.  {{ISBN|978-0-7914-3945-6}}. The lead editor is identified as a political scientist at [[Saint Mary's College of California]].</ref> and by the Alliance itself.  For example, an article from the Alliance's chairperson was entitled "The New World Alliance: Toward a Transformational Politics,"<ref name=Olson /> and the Alliance's political platform is entitled "A Transformation Platform: The Dialogue Begins."<ref name=Paulson />