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| '''Political Research Associates''' (PRA) is an independent non-profit research group located in ], which studies the ] political ], including ], ] groups, and ] organizations. It was founded in 1981 by Dr. Jean V. Hardisty, and has a full-time staff of six. The director is Katherine Hancock Ragsdale. ] is the group's senior analyst. Researchers include Pam Chamberlain. |
'''Political Research Associates''' (PRA) is an independent non-profit research group located in ], which studies the ] political ], including ], ] groups, and ] organizations. It was founded in 1981 by Dr. Jean V. Hardisty, and has a full-time staff of six. The director is Katherine Hancock Ragsdale. ] is the group's senior analyst. Researchers include Pam Chamberlain. | ||
| PRA publishes a journal, ''The Public Eye'', three times a year, which reports on specific movements or trends, and also produces special reports, past examples of which include "Calculated Compassion," which details attacks on ]s and ]s, and "Decades of Distortion," about the ]ing of welfare recipients. | PRA publishes a journal, ''The Public Eye'', three times a year, which reports on specific movements or trends, and also produces special reports, past examples of which include "Calculated Compassion," which details attacks on ]s and ]s, and "Decades of Distortion," about the ]ing of welfare recipients. | ||
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| ]'s conservative DiscovertheNetworks.org (DTN) organization accuses PRA of engaging in "smear tactics" and promoting a "hard left agenda." According to DTN PRA has ] political leanings including the promotion of the ] doctrine of "]." DTN also accuses PRA of supporting "] ]," promoting and defending ] into the United States, and discouraging political cooperation between liberals and conservatives "regardless of the underlying cause." | ]'s conservative DiscovertheNetworks.org (DTN) organization accuses PRA of engaging in "smear tactics" and promoting a "hard left agenda." According to DTN PRA has ] political leanings including the promotion of the ] doctrine of "]." DTN also accuses PRA of supporting "] ]," promoting and defending ] into the United States, and discouraging political cooperation between liberals and conservatives "regardless of the underlying cause." | ||
| PRA funding is derived from foundation grants, individual contributions, and the sale of research materials. Among its major donors are the Public Welfare Foundation |
PRA funding is derived from foundation grants, individual contributions, and the sale of research materials. Among its major donors are the Public Welfare Foundation, the ]. | ||
| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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Political Research Associates (PRA) is an independent non-profit research group located in Somerville, Massachusetts, which studies the U.S. political right wing, including white supremacists, anti-Semitic groups, and paramilitary organizations. It was founded in 1981 by Dr. Jean V. Hardisty, and has a full-time staff of six. The director is Katherine Hancock Ragsdale. Chip Berlet is the group's senior analyst. Researchers include Pam Chamberlain.
PRA publishes a journal, The Public Eye, three times a year, which reports on specific movements or trends, and also produces special reports, past examples of which include "Calculated Compassion," which details attacks on gays and lesbians, and "Decades of Distortion," about the scapegoating of welfare recipients.
The group provides public speakers, and has staff on hand to answer queries from journalists, researchers, and activists.
PRA is supported by a number of progressive and liberal activists, including Anne Braden of the Southern Organizing Committee, and Suzanne Pharr of the Highlander Research Center. Pharr has written that PRA "sets the standard for researchers and political analysts of integrity," and describes the group's research as "thorough, thoughtful, carefully researched, and presented within a broad context of understanding of the complex relationships and activities of the Right."
Critics include Daniel Brandt, the founder of Google Watch, who has described PRA as a "private intelligence agency," a type of organization that will "generally inbreed with their adversaries and mutate into a peculiar political animal." .
David Horowitz's conservative DiscovertheNetworks.org (DTN) organization accuses PRA of engaging in "smear tactics" and promoting a "hard left agenda." According to DTN PRA has communist political leanings including the promotion of the Marxist doctrine of "dialectical materialism." DTN also accuses PRA of supporting "Palestinian anti-Semitism," promoting and defending illegal immigration into the United States, and discouraging political cooperation between liberals and conservatives "regardless of the underlying cause."
PRA funding is derived from foundation grants, individual contributions, and the sale of research materials. Among its major donors are the Public Welfare Foundation, the Ford Foundation.
References
- Website of Political Research Associates
- PRA 2004 Annual Report, p. 16 (PDF).
- "Cyberspace Wars: Microprocessing vs. Big Brother" by Daniel Brandt, Namebase.org
- Political Research Associates profile on DiscovertheNetworks.org