We develop the concept of the satellite political movement (SPM), a form of movement-party interaction that emerges in support of a…
At a moment when our democratic abilities seem to have eroded, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened the capacity…
Elizabeth McKenna, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has been awarded a prestigious Carnegie Fellowship,…
Since 2020, the Democracy & Power Innovation Fund (DPI) and our learning partners in organizing, philanthropy, and academia have been…
Benefits of legislation meant to help all veterans were routinely denied to Black veterans.
We examine the types of risk that organizers seeking to build people-based political power take and describe how organizers cultivate…
Guided by this historical view, this chapter has two main aims. In the first section, our goal is to situate global social movements in a…
Powerful organization, rather than efficient mobilization, is the way to re-center people in our political life.
Social movements drive economic, social, political, and cultural change. But who – or what – makes movements? This chapter argues that…
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…