
Building “Mass Governance” in Zohran Mamdani’s New York City
Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, director of the Urban Democracy Lab, has spent two decades studying participatory democracy and international examples of municipal socialism. He was part of the transition team’s committee on Community Organizing for the Mamdani administration.

Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.