Journal ArticleDOI
Cross-Cutting Influences of Environmental Protest and Legislation
Susan Olzak,Sarah A. Soule +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper examined the influence of types of protest activities, Congressional hearings and political characteristics on environmental legislation enacted from 1961-1990 and found that protest has no direct effect on the passage of legislation, but institutional protest activities significantly raise the rate of Congressional hearings on the environment.Abstract:
This research examines the influence of types of protest activities, Congressional hearings and political characteristics on environmental legislation enacted from 1961–1990. We find that rates of environmental protest rise with increases in the amount of previous institutional activities, but extra-institutional activities do not raise the overall rate of protest. Protest has no direct effect on the passage of legislation, but institutional protest activities significantly raise the rate of Congressional hearings on the environment. When comparing all environmental laws to those designated as having a major impact, we find both similarities and differences. For example, prior legislative activity decreases both rates, but increases in criteria air pollutants and partisan characteristics of Congress significantly affect only the rates of major environmental legislation.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
The Political Consequences of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this article, the authors take stock of this research with a focus on movements in democratic polities and the United States in comparative and historical perspective and make more comparisons across movements and issues.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Movements, Civil Society and Corporations: Taking Stock and Looking Ahead
TL;DR: The relationships between social movements and civil society on the one hand and the corporate world on the other hand are often shaped by conflict over the domination of economic, cultural and social life as mentioned in this paper.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics: Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges
TL;DR: The authors argue that when firms are chronically targeted by social activists, they respond defensively by adopting strategic management devices that help them better manage social issues and demonstrate their normative appropriateness, which in turn increases a firm's receptivity to future activist challenges.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Dynamic Process Model of Private Politics Activist Targeting and Corporate Receptivity to Social Challenges
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether and how corporations become more receptive to social activist challenges over time, and suggest a dynamic process through which contentious interactions lead to increased receptivity, and test their theory using a unique longitudinal dataset that tracks contentious attacks and the adoption of social management devices among a population of 300 large firms.
Journal ArticleDOI
Protesting While Black? The Differential Policing of American Activism, 1960 to 1990
TL;DR: This article explored the idea that race and ethnic relations affect how police respond to protest events, drawing on the protest policing literature and on theories of race-and ethnic relations, and found that the race of protesters affects the response of police to protests.
References
More filters
Book
An Economic Theory of Democracy
TL;DR: Downs presents a rational calculus of voting that has inspired much of the later work on voting and turnout as discussed by the authors, particularly significant was his conclusion that a rational voter should almost never bother to vote.
Journal ArticleDOI
From Mobilization to Revolution.
J. Craig Jenkins,Charles Tilly +1 more
TL;DR: The recent fallecimiento del sociólogo e historiador Charles Tilly (Lombard, Illinois, 1929-Bronx, Nueva York, 2008) puede servir de pretexto for rememorar una trayectoria investigadora sin duda excepcional, plasmada a lo largo de medio siglo en más de 600 artículos and 51 libros and monografías, that le convirtieron en el más influyente especialista
Book
From mobilization to revolution
TL;DR: In the offensive case, a group pools resources in response to opportunities to realize its interests as discussed by the authors, which is the most top-down form of mobilization, whereas in the preventive case, the group pool resources in anticipation of future opportunities and threats.
Book
Agendas and instability in American politics
TL;DR: Baumgartner and Jones as mentioned in this paper extended their work to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States and pointed out that short-term, single-issue analysis cast public policy too narrowly as the result of cozy and dependable arrangements among politicians, interest groups, and the media.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Strategy of Social Protest.
Gerald Finch,William A. Gamson +1 more
TL;DR: The meaning of success in the political arena, the limits of solidarity, the strategy of thinking small, the success of the unruly, and the historical context of challenges as mentioned in this paper.