Sociology Faculty and Staff Publications

Authors

Richard L. Wood

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2007

Abstract

This chapter studies an organizing effort of the PICO National Network, which organizes in poor, working-class, and middle-class neighborhoods in the United States, mostly in urban areas. PICO engages in faith-based community organizing to generate democratic pressure to advance the interests of its nonelite, highly multiracial participants. The research reported here goes beyond other studies of grassroots organizing through its focus on efforts to influence policymaking on health care, public safety, education, immigrant rights, and housing at the state and national levels.'

Publisher

University of Kansas Press

Publication Title

Richard L. Wood. 2007. Higher Power: Strategic Capacity for State and National Organizing, in Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change, edited by Marion Orr; Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press: pp. 162-192.'

First Page

162

Last Page

192

Language (ISO)

English

Keywords

religious communities, community organizing

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