Research/Training/Power Structure Research

Power Structure Research

Introduction

Why use Power Structure Research? Because it helps to mobilize and educate people to challenge unequal power and privilege. Conspiracy theory, on the other hand, undermines movements for progressive social change; avoids challenging the structures, institutions, and systems of unfair power and oppression; and distracts attention away from the real culprits. Real social change requires hard work, not surreal Internet gossip. Read more about the failures of conspiracy theory as an analytical model.

Power Structure Research Resources

• G. William Domhoff: Power Structure Research and the Hope for Democracy
• Val Burris: Internet Guide to Power Structure Research
  • Policy Formation
  • Money & Politics
• Impact Research - The Data Center
• Action Research Weblinks - COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference On Community Organizing and Development
• Elite Power Structures
  • Social Stratification
  • Social Stratification Course 1
  • Social Stratification Course 2
  • Links to Stratification Related Sites

Elites, the State, and Blocking Progress

Conservative and right-wing elites work with both the state apparatus and right-wing countermovements to repress and block action for progressive social change

Bibliography of books that discuss how conservative and right-wing countermovements work with elites and state actors to blunt gains and demands made by labor, left, women's, environmental, and gay groups in the United States. It's just a partial list

Roots of Researching Right-Wing Power

Applied Power Structure Research

[Under Construction]

Sociology

Influenced by Rousseau, Marx, & Durkheim

Student Power Movement

How Harvard Rules

U.S. Foreign Policy

NACLA

Race

Gender

Class

Specific Models

• Alinskyism: What's Good, What's Not
  • Industrial Areas Foundation
• Power Structure Research
• Midwest Academy
• Social Movement Theory
• Critical Race Theory
• Critical Feminist Theory
• Deep Ecology Theory
• Critical Legal Theory
• Critical Queer Theory
• Libertarian Socialism

Pioneers

Partial List

• George Seldes
• I.F. Stone
• Forester & Epstein
• Gordon Hall & ]]] Hoag
• Richard Hofstadter
• Michael Paul Rogin
• Counterspy
• Sasha Gregory Lewis 1975
• NACLA
• R2N2
• Steve Fanchuken
• Sara Miles
• Public Eye Network
• Covert Action Information Bulletin
• Jerome Himmelstein
• Kathleen Blee
• The Black Scholar
• South End Press
  • Z Magazine
  • Z Media Institute
• National Anti-Klan Network
• Applied Research Center
• Loretta Ross
• Jean Hardisty 1979
• Political Research Associates
• Southern Exposure
• Center for Democratic Renewal
• Data Center
• Holly Sklar
• Fred Clarkson
• Suzanne Pharr
• Urvashi Vaid
• Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment
• Coalition for Human Dignity
• Leonard Zeskind
• Daniel Levitas
• Russ Bellant
• Diamond:
  • Spiritual Warfare
  • Roads to Dominion, 1990

Back Flips

• The Tea Party Citizen Journalism Project
• Journalism Training
• Power Structure Research
• Studying the U.S. Political Right

Spotlight On