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.
The power structure implicitly, and often explicitly, devalues primary or generalist medical care and relationship-centered approaches to practicing medicine.
The power structure is, if anything, more intractable.
Common attributes that are deemed to be universal are likely to be reflections of the existing power structure.
The initial postwar behavior of most veterans revealed the extent to which they believed they had become a part of the colonial power structure.
This "power structure" compelled the ones to please the other, not to contradict him even at the expense of science.
The dynamism of policy change leads to the emergence of new political issues, and to changes in the power structure among political players.
This set-up, which was very democratic on paper, could not conceal the fact that the impartial petit bourgeois unions usually had an oligarchical power structure.
Such views fail to recognize that any achievement was subject to the constraints set down by a white power structure, for instance.
