0 a way in which power is organized or shared in an organization or society:
The president has promised a new constitution and the creation of democratic power structures.
Rather, to mitigate this function, the underlying economic power structure must be changed.
The main issue is that in ethnically conscious societies, the ' ethnic security map ' strongly influences the power structure.
He identifies five models of the village power structure.
They destroyed the power structure, leaving the masks lying on the floor, impotent without their bundled remains.
Though we were outsiders, once at the orphanage we too became enmeshed in this nested power structure.
All this appears to challenge the party's domination of the village power structure.
There was a very productive equality in our working relationship, partly because the power structure between different genders and knowledges was almost entirely absent.
Such views fail to recognize that any achievement was subject to the constraints set down by a white power structure, for instance.
