Sociology Faculty and Staff Publications
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
Recommended Citation
Wood, Richard L.. "Higher Power: Strategic Capacity for State and National Organizing." 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.' (2007): 162-192. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/soc_fsp/7
