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POWER AND
CHANGE IN AMERICA is a study of the dynamic relations between
political economy and social structure and the formation and impact
of social movements, politics, and ideologies in modern America.
Substantive themes covered this semester: repression of labor and
the left, race relations in the post-Civil Rights period, the
character of the "new right" countermovement, and the problem of
inequality. Major project: Exposé on a right wing foundation, think
tank, or activist group, its history, political economic
affiliations, ideological character, policy agenda, and influence on
public policy. Selections are analyzed against the background of the
overall policy-making context, its imperatives and its constraints. |