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Au cours des dernières décennies, un accord de plus en plus large s’est fait, dans la théorie politique et les sciences politiques empiriques, pour dire que la démocratie tire en…
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…
Vol. 14, Issue 1, Pages 196-208
In this paper, I respond to the editors request that I look back on the concept of soft power that I first published in 1990. I describe my approach to power; explain the origins…
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…
Among our greatest leaders are those driven by impulses they cannot completely control - by lust. Lust is not, however, an abstraction, it has definition. Definition that, given…
Vol. 18, Issue 1, Pages A9–A11
Powerful organization, rather than efficient mobilization, is the way to re-center people in our political life.
The promise of American democracy is at greater risk than at any time since the 1930s. Among the most important factors of America’s democracy crisis is an acute erosion in the…
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…