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Description

1. xv, 329 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Although grass-roots social movements are an important force of social and political change, they quite often fail to achieve their lofty goals. Similarly, the inability of research to systematically explain the impact of such movements stands in sharp contrast to their emotional appeal. "Protest, Opportunities, and Mechanisms" attempts to rejuvenate current scholarship by developing a comprehensive theory of social movements and political change. In addition to reviewing the existing literature on the political outcomes of social movements, this volume analyzes the examples of the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts in eighteen countries to forge a new understanding of their momentous impact.

Alternative title

1. Political outcomes of social movements

Subject

1. OECD
2. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
3. Social movements
4. Protest movements
5. Civil rights movements

Contents

1. Causal Mechanisms and Social Science Theory 2 -- The Political Outcomes of Social Movements 4 -- A Literature That Grows but Does Not Accumulate 6 -- Part I A Partial Theory of Social Movements and Political Change -- 2 Collective Goods, Public Policies, Political Institutions, and Political Change 21 -- Can We Assess the Political Outcomes of Social Movements in Terms of Success? 22 -- A Typology of Substantive Political Outcomes 25 -- A Typology of Institutional Political Outcomes 32 -- 3 Social Movement Strength, Tactics, and the Viability of Political Goals 38 -- Social Movement Strength 39 -- Strategy and Social Movement Outcomes 44 -- 4 Opportunities and Constraints in the Environment of Social Movements 52 -- The Political Context of Social Movements 53 -- The Cultural and Economic Context of Social Movements 67 -- 5 Causal Mechanisms of Political Change 72 -- The Disruption Mechanism 73 -- The Public Preference Mechanism 76 -- The Political Access Mechanism 80 -- The Judicial Mechanism 86 -- The International Politics Mechanism 89 -- Part II The Civil Rights Movement -- 6 The Judicial Mechanism 97 -- Constraint I: The Limited Nature of Rights 98 -- Constraint II: The Lack of Judicial Independence 102 -- Constraint III: The Judiciary's Lack of Powers of Implementation 104 -- 7 The Disruption Mechanism 115 -- Creating Crisis in the South: From Montgomery to Selma 116 -- Creating Crisis in the North: The Ghetto Riots 124 -- The Political Context of Disruption 133 -- 8 The Public Preference Mechanism 140 -- Mobilizing Public Opinion 141 -- Explaining Public Opinion on Civil Rights Policies 143 -- The Impact of Racial Attitudes on Civil Rights Policies 149 -- 9 The Political Access Mechanism 159 -- Mobilizing for Electoral Empowerment 160 -- The Electoral Empowerment of African Americans 161 -- The Political Impact of African American Electoral Empowerment 165 -- 10 The International Politics Mechanism 175 -- The Role of International Politics in the Struggle of the Civil Rights Movement 176 -- The Effects of the Cold War on Civil Rights 183 -- Explaining the Leverage of International Politics over the Executive Branch 186 -- Part III The Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement -- 11 The Context and Potential Political Impact of Anti-Nuclear Protest 193 -- Operationalizing the Political Impact of the Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement 194 -- Explanatory Hypotheses and the Measurement of Independent Variables 204 -- 12 Explaining the Political Impact of Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements 216 -- Anti-Nuclear Mobilization before the Chernobyl Accident 217 -- The Political Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident on Nuclear Power 229 -- 13 The Political Impact of Court Action, Mass Disruption, and Public Opinion 238 -- The Judicial Mechanism 239 -- The Disruption Mechanism 245 -- The Public Preference Mechanism 252 -- Social Movements and Political Change 274 -- Insights from Studying the Civil Rights and the Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements 277.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Note

1. Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Freie Universität Berlin, 2006.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-329).

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