Richard Healey & Sandra Hinson, ‘Rhyming Hope and HIstory’ 2005

The tools that groups use for power analysis tend to be one-dimensional snapshots – forcefield analysis, mapping the alignment of groups and resources, and so on. Power maps are a particularly useful tools for developing issue campaigns. However, these one-dimensional tools do not lend themselves to an analysis that pushes the theoretical boundaries beyond the groups’ pluralist assumptions.