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Power Structure Research

Power structure research is a type of research which often uses Social Network Analysis
http://www.uoregon.edu/~vburris/whorules/
==Background==
Pioneered by C Wright Mills and subsequent sociologists such as William Domhoff in the US and John Scott in the UK. According to Domhoff:
:There are two general aspects of any study that attempts to delineate a power structure and understand its workings. The first aspect is a "network analysis." A network analysis provides an empirical picture of (1) the interconnections among the key organizations and people in the power structure and (2) the operations of that network on policy issues. Such studies can reveal power structures to be more or less tightly knit, more or less focused in a few organizations or individuals, and more or less linked to a single social class. The second aspect of a power structure study is a "content analysis" of what is said and done within the power network. Such studies can provide information on the substance of new policies and an understanding of the strategies and values that underlie the policy planning of the power elite.’Domhoff, G. W. (2005) 'Power Structure Research and the Hope for Democracy' Who Rules America, April.
==Resources==
*Val Burris homepage and publications, University of Oregon. 
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point
*http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Runs-This-Place-Anatomy/dp/0719565642
*http://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Rules-Britain-John-Scott/dp/074560563X
*http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/corporate_community.html
*http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/may2007/id20070504_739507.htm
*http://investing.businessweek.com/research/company/overview/overview.asp
*Who Rules America http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/
*They Rule http://www.theyrule.net
*Exxon Secrets http://www.exxonsecrets.org
==See Also==
Investigative Research | Social Network Analysis
==Further Reading==
*Cohen, S. (1988) ‘The last seminar’ in Against Criminology, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction books.
*Lee, R. (1993) Doing Research on sensitive topics, London: Sage.
*Peter Phillips, August 14, 2003 'Inside Bohemian Grove US Elites Celebrate Patriarchy, Racism and Class Privilege', CounterPunch http://www.counterpunch.org/phillips08142003.html 
*Phillips, P, A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club A Doctoral Dissertation (1994) http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/faculty/phillips/bohemianindex.html 
*Scott, J. (1990) A matter of record, Cambridge: Polity.
*Simpson, C ‘Scholars Perfect Psychological Warfare Techniques’ Excerpt from Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 by Christopher Simpson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 48-51: http://www.cia-on-campus.org/social/simpson.html 
*Walraff, G. (1978) Walraff: the Undesirable Journalist, London: Pluto.
*Williams, K. (1989). Researching the powerful: problems and possibilities of social research. Contemporary Crises, 13(3), 252-274.
==Notes==
Category:Research MethodsCategory:Research
Category:Power structure research
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Poyry

Poyry is an energy consultancy. In February 2014 it published a report claiming that the UK's 'nascent shale gas industry will die without an overhaul of the planning system'.
:Pöyry circulated its findings last week to the House of Lords economic affairs committee, which is holding an inquiry into fracking. In a 2012 report, Pöyry predicted shale gas production would begin by 2014. It now says planning delays and public opposition make production unlikely to start before 2020. Danny Fortson Planning delays ‘hinder fracking’, The Times, 16 February 2014, acc 17 Feb 2014 
==People==
*Matt Brown
==Clients==
==Lobbying firms==
==Affiliations==
*Carbon Capture and Storage Association
*Poyry Capital
==Publications==
==Contact==
:Name & Registered Office:
:POYRY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING (UK) LIMITED
:KING CHARLES HOUSE
:PARK END STREET
:OXFORD OX1 1JD
:Company No. 02573801
:Website:http://www.poyry.co.uk/
==Resources==
==Notes==
Category:Nuclear SpinCategory:Fracking
Pradeep Kar

Pradeep Kar is an Indian businessman who is a director of United Business Media and active with the World Economic Forum. He was the founder, chairman and managing director of Microland . Microland is one of India’s leading providers of outsourced IT infrastructure management and technical support services, employing more than 1,600 staff. Pradeep Kar is the 2006 President of the Bangalore chapter of The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE). He is an alumnus of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur.
More complete profiles of Pradeep exist on Microland's website Pradeep Kar and United Business Media's website Karen Thomson and Pradeep Kar appointed to the Board of United Business Media.
==External links==
* Bio details at World Economic Forum
* Article from rediff about Pradeep Kar heading the IPO committee
* Businessworld article about Pradeep Kar's serial entrepreneurship 
* Story about indya.com, promoted by Pradeep Kar
* STAR buying out indya.com - Article in Businessline from The Hindu 
* News item about appointment as independent director
* Kar heads TiE chapter, B’lore 
* Microland's outsourcing deal with a UK firm
Prague Security Studies Institute Washington

Prague Security Studies Institute Washington was set up in 2006. It is the US branch of the Prague Security Studies Institute a leading European neoconservative organisation. The think tank's mission is to enhance "US understanding of the security challenges facing the Czech Republic and other post-communist states".PSSI Washington, Homepage, PSSI Washington, Accessed 03-June-2009
==Contact==
:PSSI Washington
:The Townhouse, Levels 3&4
:1002 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
:Washington, DC 20007
:Phone: 202-342-0668
:Fax: 202-342-0883
:Email: info AT pssiwashington.org
:Web: http://www.pssiwashington.org
==Notes==
Category:Think Tanks
Pratap Shirke

Pratap Baburao Shirke is the chairman of ASP Ship Management, as well as chairman of the board for The North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association. 'Pratap Shirke', Bloomberg, accessed 28 June 2016 
Shirke also donated to Vote Leave, the anti-EU campaign in the UK's EU referendum of June 2016. 
==Donations==
Donated £9,994 on 3 June 2016 to Vote Leave, the lead eurosceptic campaign which persuaded voters to leave the EU in the UK's membership referendum on 23 June 2016. Electoral Commission, Vote Leave Donations, accessed 28 June 2016 
==Notes==
 
Shirke, Pratap Shirke, PratapCategory:Brexit ‘leave’ donor
Pravy Sektor

Pravy Sektor (Right Sector) is a far-right political group in Ukraine.Shaun Walker, Ukrainian far-right group claims to be co-ordinating violence in Kiev, theguardian.com, 23 January 2014.
==People==
===Leader===
*Dmitro YaroshDoug Saunders, Have Ukraine's protests been taken over by this ultra-right-wing group?, The Globe and Mail, 7 February 2014.
==Notes==
category:Ukraine
Precise Public Affairs

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==Background==
==People==
*Robbie MacDuff
==Resources==
*Precise Public Affairs, Staff and Clients, 01.12.03 to 31.05.04
*Precise Public Affairs, Staff and Clients, 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008
==Notes==
Category:Lobbying firms
Back to Lobbying Portal
Precise Public Affairs, Staff and Clients, 01.12.03 to 31.05.04

Precise Public Affairs 
==Address(es) in UK==
Contact: 
Robbie MacDuff 
Beaumont House 
Kensington Village 
Avonmore Road 
London W14 8TS 
Tel: 020 7605 1207 
Fax: 020 7605 1101 
e-mail: 
rmacduff@precisepolitical.co.uk 
 
Felicity Goodey 
Laser House 
Waterfront Quay 
Salford Quays 
Manchester M50 3XW 
Tel: 0161 874 5700 
Fax: 0161 888 2242 
e-mail: 
felicity@fgassoc.demon.co.uk 
 
Website: http://www.precisepolitical.co.uk
===Offices outside UK ===
 
N/A
==Staff (employed and freelance) providing consultancy services 01.12.03 to 31.05.04 (list is actual at 31.05.04) ==
*Robbie MacDuff 
*Chris Lowe
*Helen Childs
*Justin Johnson
*Felicity Goodey, DL, CBE 
*Elizabeth Mailey (freelance) 
*Mark Pendlington (freelance) 
 
==Fee-Paying clients for whom UK consultancy services provided 01.12.03 to 31.05.04 (list is actual at 31.05.04)==
*The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) 
*Betfair 
*Compass Group 
*First Step Trust 
*Greater Manchester County Fire Service 
*Medirest 
*Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service 
*Pfizer (Europe) 
*Scottish & Newcastle plc 
*Vertex 
*East London & City Mental Health Trust 
*National Secretariat of the Regional Development Agencies 
*Hampshire Fire Service
==Fee-Paying Clients for whom only UK monitoring services provided 01.12.03 to 31.05.04 ==
None
Category:APPC Register
Precise Public Affairs, Staff and Clients, 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008

Precise Public Affairs
==APPC Register Entry for 1 December 2007 to 29 February 2008==
===Address(es) in UK===
Contact
The Registry
Royal Mint Court
London EC3N 4QN
Name:
Tel:
Fax:
Email:
Robbie MacDuff
020 7866 7871
020 7866 7900
robbie.macduff@precisepolitical.co.uk
Website: http://www.precisepolitical.co.uk
===Offices outside UK===
None
==Staff (employed and sub-contracted) providing PA consultancy services this quarter==
Robbie MacDuff
Chris Lowe
Helen Childs
Sarah Long (& Compliance Officer)
Robert Russell-Pavier
Sophia Wilson
==Fee-paying clients for whom UK PA consultancy services provided this quarter==
* Capital On Site
* Cemex
* EU-Russia Centre
* Hilton Hotels Corporation
* MGT Power Limited
* Sapior Ltd
* Scottish & Newcastle plc
* Scottish & Newcastle UK
* South East London Primary Care Trusts, comprising Lewisham PCT, Greenwich PCT, Bexley Care Trust and Bromley PCT
==Fee-paying Clients for whom only UK monitoring services provided this quarter==
None
==Notes==
Category:APPC Register
Precom

Precom is a PR firm based in the Nederlands. In 2008, they report affiliations with the following agenciesPrecom Aangesloten bureaus Accessed 25th february 2008...
* BB Communicatie
* Bex Communicatie
* Bijl, partners in public relations and voorlichting
* Boer and Croon Corporate Communication
* Burson-Masteller 
* Edelman
* Euro RSCG Bikker
* Hill and Knowlton Nederland
* Hollander en Van der Mey/MS&L
* Pauw Sanders Zeilstra Van Spaendonck
* Porter Novelli
* Publicis Van Sluis Consultants 
* Tappan Communicatie
* Van Hulzen Public Relations Adviseurs
* Van Luyken Communicatie Adviseurs
==References==
Category:PR Industry
Category:Public relations firms
Prema Gurunathan

::Formerly a parliamentary researcher to a Labour MP and more recently a lobbyist, Ms Gurunathan is now at King's College London pursuing an MA in Intelligence and International Security. She was Chair of the Young Fabians, the under-31s of the Fabian Society 2005/6, and a member of the executive for 3 years prior, starting off as Editor of their quarterly journal 'Anticipations'. Born in Singapore, she speaks Mandarin and was educated at the LSE and Birkbeck College, where she did a MSc in American Politics.
::As a self-confessed Americanophile, she has worked on both a Presidential and Senate race, in Washington and Iowa respectively. However she is better known for her baking skills, and is as passionate about patisserie as she is about politics. She also volunteers as a kitchen help for the Food Chain, a HIV/AIDS charity; is involved in the Westminster Challenge, a cross-party charity; and is a school governor at a local primary school.YPFP London Officers - Young Professionals in Foreign Policy, accessed 22 March 2008
==Affiliations==
*Young Professionals in Foreign Policy
==Notes==
Premier Oil:Links, contacts & resources

For information on Premier Oil’s involvement in Burma:
The Burma Campaign UK
3rd Floor, Bickerton House
25-27 Bickerton Road
London N19 5JT
Tel: 020 7281 7377
Fax: 020 7272 3559
www.burmacampaign.org.uk
For information on Premier Oil’s involvement in Pakistan:
Friends of the Earth
Craig Bennett
FoE England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Tel: 44 20 7566 1667
Pager: 07654 588 862
E-mail: craigb@foe.co.uk
or
Paul de Clerck
FoE Netherlands
Tel: 31 20 550 7300
E-mail: Paul.de.Clerck@milieudefensie.nl
www.foei.org/
Project Underground
www.moles.org/
Monitors mining and oil companies. All issues of Drillbits & Tailings referred to above can be found on their site.
‘UK Cash Fuels Burma’s Suffering’ by David Cohen
Article on Premier Oil in Burma from issue 10 of Corporate Watch magazine.
www.corporatewatch.org.uk/magazine/issue10/cw10f3.html
For a financial analysis of Premier Oil, visit www.corporateinformation.com and choose from one of the profiles.
http://search.corporateinformation.com/cgi-bin/cosearch.asp
Total Denial Continues
Report by Earth Rights International (ERI) on the effects of Total’s pipeline building. The report features first hand testimonies from several hundred victims, witnesses and army defectors interviewed in the pipeline corridor.
The report is available online at www.earthrights.org/pubs/td2000.html
2012 Massachusetts Ave.NW Ste. 500
Washington DC 20036
Tel: +1 202 466 5188
Fax: +1 202 466 5189
infousa@earthrights.org
Category: Transnational CorporationsCategory: Oil Industry
Premier Oil: Influence / Lobbying

==Lobbying groups==
Premier Oil is a member of UK Offshore Operators Association (UKOOA, www.ukooa.co.uk). UKOOA sees as its mission: 'To provide leadership to maintain the development of a forward-looking, profitable, thriving and responsible offshore oil and gas industry and to enhance its reputation and develop relationships with government, public and other stakeholders'[17].
==Influencing research and education==
Essex University Human Rights Centre did human rights training for Premier in Burma (this involved giving people in Burma training in human rights). Professor Tom Sorrel of Essex University (philosophy dept.) was involved in this as a consultant for Premier. The Human Rights Centre was asked to do a second round of training, but turned this down. Professor Sorrel, however, pushed hard for accepting another round of training [18].
The corporate unit of Warwick Business School verified the social audit, even though their own Professor Alyson Warhurst had been part of framing the scope of the consultations in Burma [19].
==PR companies==
*College Hill
*EQ Management did social audit in Burma, a process verified by the Corporate Citizenship Unit of Warwick University's Business School (see above). EQ have previously worked with Waitrose and the New Economics Foundation [20].
==Legal firms retained==
*Berwin Leighton Paisner
==Notes==
[17] UK Offshore Operators Association homepage, www.ukooa.co.uk/ukooa/
[18] The Burma Campaign UK
[19] Spinning and pumping (Premier Oil publicity makes the case for constructive engagement in Burma in its social performance report), by David Buchan, Financial Times, 16/05/01
[20] 'Destructive Engagement: Premier Oil's Social Report and Burma', John Jackson, The Burma Campaign UK
Category: Transnational CorporationsCategory: Oil Industry
Premier Oil: Products and Projects

==Projects==
Premier Oil has licence interests in eight countries: Albania, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Pakistan and the UK [4].
They have ongoing projects in the following countries: Albania, Burma, Indonesia, Pakistan and the UK (several in the North Sea, Wytch Farm and Wareham) [5].
==References==
[4] Premier Oil, Annual Report & Accounts 2000, p.60.
[5] See pp. 8-13 in Premier Oil, Annual Report & Accounts 2000, for a brief summary of the activities in these countries.
Category: Transnational CorporationsCategory: Oil Industry
Premier Prison Services

Premier Prison Services was a joint venture between Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (part of The Wackenhut Corporation) and Serco Plc.Stephen Nathan, Prison Privatization in the United Kingdom, Capitalist Punishment, Zed Books, 2003, p168 
In May 2002, The Wackenhut Corporation was acquired by Group 4 Falck. Through this acquisition, Group 4 got a 57% stake in Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC), and took over WCC's 50% stake in Premier Prisons. 
This meant Premier Prisons was jointly owned by Group 4 and Serco, until Serco won the right to full ownership of Premier in a legal dispute.
(In 2003, WCC re-bought the 57% of the company that Group 4 had acquired, and changed its name to the Geo Group Inc.)
Premier Detention Services ran Dungavel IRC from 2001 to 2006, and Colnbrook IRC, which opened in August 2004.Christine Bacon, The Evolution of Immigration Detention in the UK: The Involvement of Private Prison Companies, University of Oxford, September 2005, p8
==Notes==
Category:Security Industry
Category:UK Immigration Detention Contractors
Category:Detention Industry
Preparing for Power

Preparing for Power was a pamphlet version of the RCP manifesto produced in July 1983 just after the June 1983 General Election and republished in a second and third edition in November 1983 and August 1984. The text first saw the light of day in the June 1983 'election special' issue of the party paper The next step.The next step Revolutionary Communist Party [UK], June 1983, No. 36, 16pp. (A3)
The party stood four candidates in the General Election in Birmingham, Sheffield, London and Ashton-under-Lyme.
*Constituency | Candidate	| Party | Votes | % Compiled from data at: ENGLAND - - - BOROUGHS - ALDRIDGE-BROWNHILLS to LEEDS, WEST; ENGLAND - - - BOROUGHS - LEICESTER, EAST to YORK; LONDON - - - BOROUGHS
*ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE | D.P. Hallsworth	| Rev CP | 407 | 1.0
*BIRMINGHAM, SPARKBROOK | Miss F. Eden | Rev CP | 281 | 0.9
*SHEFFIELD, CENTRAL | Miss C. Barrett | Rev CP | 226 | 0.5
*SOUTHWARK, SOUTHWARK and BERMONDSEY | A. Farehk | Rev CP | 54 | 0.2
The title 'Preparing for Power' was also used for the annual party conference until at least 1990.
==Resources==
*Preparing for Power: The Programme of the Revolutionary Communist Party, London: Junius Publications, first published July 1983, Second ed. November 1983, Third ed, August 1984. ISBN 0 9508404 2 4
*Preparing for Power 1989
*Preparing for Power 1990
==Notes==
Category:LM network
Preparing for Power 1989

thumb|right|200px|Front cover of Preparing for Power, published by the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1989.
Preparing for Power was published by the Revolutionary Communist Party. It was used to highlight a week of 'discussion and debate about the current state of the world and how to change it.' The event ran from 21 - 28 July 1989 and was held at the University of London.Revolutionary Communist Party Preparing for Power, Summer 1989 The full document can be viewed on Scribd.
==Speakers / Schedule==
* Friday 21 July
:Registration. A choice of sessions starting at 8pm including 'An absolute beginner's guide to the RCP'.
* Saturday 22 July
:Morning: Opening plenary 10.30am. 1789-1989: Hard-learned lessons for today.
:Afternoon: Various workshops and debates on key issues of British and international politics:
::Designer Capitalism
::Agenda for women's liberation
::Britain's Secret State
::Freedom and the individual
::The Greening of British politics
::Workers and their unions
::Peace breaks out? Angola, Afghanistan, Kampuchea
::Is fascism a threat?
::Ireland: 20 years of resistance
::What is a revolution?
::Ten years of Thatcherism
::The Bush presidency
::1992 made simple
::Armenia erupts
::What about the British left?
::Inside South Africa
* Sunday 23 July - Thursday 27 July
:Morning: Specialist courses running from Sunday to Thursday:
::Frank Richards - Introduction to Marxism
::Mike Freeman - Social movement and class politics
::John Gibson - Marxism and the environment
::Daniel Nassim - Imperialism in the nineties
::Joan Phillips - New thinking and Marxism
::Alan Harding - The French Revolution and its legacy
::Tony Kennedy - The making of Marx's Capital
::Charles Longford - The Irish War for non-beginners
:Afternoon: Specialist courses running from Sunday to Thursday:
::Anne Burton - Women's oppression and liberation
::Phil Murphy - An introduction to the Irish War
::Kenan Malik - The roots of racism
::John Fitzpatrick - Marxism and culture
::Helen Simons - Issues in contemporary capitalism
::Rob Knight - The Soviet Union in the glasnost era
::Mick Hume - Strategic problems of the British revolution
::Christina Braun and Sabena Norton - Germany today
==Notes==
Category:LM network
Prescription Painkiller

Prescription Painkillers that contain morphine and codeine can cause dependency and addiction. In the U.S. figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that prescription drugs cause most of the more than 26,000 fatal drug overdoses each year. The number of overdose deaths from opioid painkillers — opium-like drugs that include morphine and codeine — more than tripled from 1999 to 2006, to 13,800 deaths that yearLiz Szabo, Prescriptions now biggest cause of fatal drug overdoses, USA Today, 10-February-2009, Accessed 04-February-2010.
==Notes==
Category:Addictions
Presence Switzerland

Presence Switzerland is part of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), and "responsible for presenting and fostering a positive image of Switzerland and for implementing the Federal Council’s strategy on Switzerland’s communication abroad".
==Activities==
According to the FDFA's website:
:The statutory tasks of Switzerland’s communication abroad are to promote Switzerland’s visibility, clarify to the foreign public Switzerland’s political concerns and positions, as well as create and further develop Switzerland’s network of decision-makers and opinion-leaders in other countries.
:Presence Switzerland fulfils its remit through carrying out projects abroad, organising visits by foreign decision-makers and opinion-leaders to Switzerland, developing and distributing information material about Switzerland abroad, and stage-managing Switzerland’s appearance at major international events such as world expos (Swiss Pavilion) and the Olympic Games (House of Switzerland). The basis of all Presence Switzerland’s communication activities abroad is “Brand Switzerland” through which the main messages as well as Switzerland’s visual profile abroad are determined.
:On 3 September 2008, the Federal Council assigned new tasks to the FDFA (specifically Presence Switzerland) to deal with threats to its image. In the event of Switzerland’s reputation abroad coming under serious threat or of an actual image crisis, the FDFA is required to submit a communication concept to the Federal Council. In collaboration with representations abroad, Presence Switzerland bases its communication concept on strengthened monitoring and analyses of reports both about Switzerland and issues relevant to Switzerland in the foreign media (“Issues Monitoring”). Presence Switzerland, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), accessed 18 May 2012 
==Lobbying agencies==
*Weber Shandwick - in 2012 won the brief to promote Switzerland's official guesthouse at the 2012 London Olympic Games, which is reportedly worth £100,000. 
*Fleishman-Hillard - 2010
*Ogilvy PR - 2008
 John Owens, Weber Shandwick scoops Swiss brief as Olympic countdown continues, prweek.com, Monday, 16 January 2012, accessed 18 May 2012 
==People==
*
==Publications==
:Website:http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/dfa/orgcha/gensec/prs.html 
==Resources==
==Notes==
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