The goal of this research is to use a human rights framework to build democratic civil society, and assist groups and individuals defending and extending democracy, liberty, and equality.

Chip's Current Online Projects

• Organized Wealth (Click on the Exclamation Point!)
• Barricade Journalism

Recent Writing Projects

Chip Berlet. 2012. “Reframing Populist Resentments in the Tea Party Movement.” In Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.

• Anders Breivik, Political Murder, and Right-Wing Demagogues (under journal review)
• _______. 2012. “Collectivists, Communists, Labor Bosses, and Treason: The Tea Parties as Right–Wing Populist Countersubversion Panic. In Critical Sociology.
• _______. 2011. “Protocols to the Left, Protocols to the Right: Conspiracism in American Political Discourse at the Turn of the Second Millennium.” In Richard Landes and Steven Katz, The Paranoid Apocalypse: A Hundred-year Retrospective on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. New York: New York Univ. Press.
  _______. 2011. “Muckraking Gadflies Buzz Reality” In Ken Wachsberger, ed., Voices from the Underground: Insider Histories of the Vietnam Era Underground Press, Part 1, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State Univ. Press, pp. 267-297.
• _______. 2011. “Analyzing Breivik’s Ideology with Social Network Research.” In e-Extreme, the online journal of ECPR, the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Vol. 12, No. 3, (October), pp. 7-8.
  _______. 2011. “Taking Tea Parties Seriously: Corporate Globalization, Populism, and Resentment.” In Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, Global Studies Association of North America, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 11-29.

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I am currently doing some major housekeeping, and a number of pages will show broken links for a few days. apologies...practice your medition mantra.

Browse our updated resource collection on Journalism as a craft or jump to one of the links in the right column.

Power Structure Research

Power Structure Research is a method of analysis based on criticizing unfair systems, structures, and institutions in society.

Power Structure Research rejects conspiracy theory as a useful form of analysis and instead looks at social, political, economic, and cultural practices that create, expand, defend, or restore inequalities based on race, gender, or class.

Power Structure Research unveils the social costs of corporate activities in terms of work, government policies, the quality of life, and the sustainability of a healthy planet.

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What they Say to Their Allies

Want to see and hear what the current leading Republican Presidential candidates say when the speak to the leading Christian Right activists?

Held annually in Washington, DC, the Values Voter Summits are the most important public meeting of the organized Christian Right in the United States.

These are huge, raw, unedited video files that I videoed for notes and fact-checking quotes for my articles.

Videos:

• Newt Gingrich 2010 (with introduction)
• Ron Paul 2011 (excerpt)
• Mitt Romney 2009 (excerpt)

More to come...

The GOP & Racist Producerism

• What is Producerism?

Studying Right-Wing Movements

You can rely on the information found at these online resources:

• Applied Research Center
• Data Center
• Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies
• Center for New Community
• Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights
• Political Research Associates
• Research for Progress
• Right Web
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Montana Human Rights Network

List of libraries and archives with materials on the Political Right

Movement Building Collection

• Movement Building
• Movement Vision Statements
• Analysis of Right-Wing Social and Political Movements
• Methods
• Using Social Movement Theory as an Analytical Tool
• Social Movements Need and Infrastructure to Survive

Journalism Resource Collection

Tools of the Craft

• Fact Checking
• Getting Started - Keeping Current
• Don't Limit Your Audience
• How to Interview
• Protecting Your Sources
• What is Investigative Journalism?
• The Muckraking Tradition
• Using Style Sheets for Publication
• Power Structure Research

Basics of Responsible Journalism

• Fairness and Accuracy rather than "Objectivity"
• Ethics for Journalists
• Legal Stuff
  • Defamation, Libel, Slander, etc.
  • Copyright & Intellectual Propert
• Logic
• Conspiracism is not Journalism
• Background Research: Toxic to Democracy: Conspiracy Theories, Demonization, & Scapegoating
  

This Series

• Progressive Journalism Project Home Page
• Journalism Training Home Page
• Credits for this Resource Section

Related Resources

Introduction to Power Structure Research

Resources

• Frameworks for Understanding the US Political Right
• Power Structure Research
• Conspiracism

Movement Building

• Vision Statements - Contemporary
• Vision Statements - Historic
• Human Rights, Systems of Oppression, and Social Justice
• Uniting to Defend the Four Freedoms

Other Websites Curated by Chip

Building Human Rights

Building Liberty

StopSpying.US

Organized Wealth
Click on the Exclamation Point!

Barricade Journalism

Underground Press Syndicate Archive

Chip Berlet's Home Page
& Biographical Information

Democracy is a process,
not a specific set of institutions

Democracy is a process that assumes
the majority of people, over time,
given enough accurate information,
and the ability to participate
in a free and open public debate,
reach constructive decisions
that benefit the whole of society, and
preserve liberty,
protect our freedoms,
extend equality, and
defend democracy.