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In 2018, far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro came to power in Brazil by building a socially and geographically heterogeneous electoral coalition. A crucial and largely overlooked…
Vol. 49, Issue 8, Pages 3101-3121
We examine the types of risk that organizers seeking to build people-based political power take and describe how organizers cultivate habits of courage in themselves and others to…
How do leaders translate collective action into political power—or not? How do they build a constituency of people that stands behind them, and then wield the power of that…
Grassroots organizing and collective action have always been fundamental to American democracy but have been burgeoning since the 2016 election, as people struggle to make their…
How can organization leaders make strategic choices that allow them to exercise power in politics? Our book, Prisms of the People, attempts to answer this question by drawing on…
Leaders like Alex Gomez and Tomás Robles connected the party to issues voters cared about
Vol. 35, Issue 6, Pages 610-631
This article examines three types of organizations – the party, the labor union, and the church – to help explain how right-wing authoritarianism returned to power in Brazil, once…
Vol. 18, Issue 1, Pages A9–A11
Powerful organization, rather than efficient mobilization, is the way to re-center people in our political life.
Vol. 14, Issue 3, Pages 750-757
This paper considers the challenges and opportunities of conducting a thick, qualitative study of a twenty-first century presidential ground campaign. Our goals in the study were…
Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2.2 million volunteers into a grassroots…