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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.