Social movement

About: Social movement is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 23103 publications have been published within this topic receiving 653076 citations. The topic is also known as: movement & syndical movement.

The Role of Collective Identification in Social Movement Participation: A Panel Study in the Context of the German Gay Movement

Abstract: The authors conducted a panel study with two points of measurement throughout a 12-month interval in the context of the German gay movement to test the predictive power of collective identification in subsequent actual social movement participation. Regression analyses including cross-lagged panel analyses clearly confirmed the hypothesized unique predictive value of identification with a formal social movement organization above and beyond the role the collective, normative, and reward motives traditionally considered in social movement research. Of the three motives, the normative motive was particularly predictive. Moreover, data from an additional telephone follow-up (3 years after the initial measurement) suggests that when the conflict with political opponents becomes particularly fierce, identification with the broader recruitment category, which was previously ineffective as a unique predictor, can politicize to such an extent that it also becomes a strong predictor of participation.

Waves of Democracy: Social Movements and Political Change, Second Edition

Abstract: 1 A Quick History of Modern Democracy 2 States, Social Movement Challengers, and Elite Reformers 3 Eighteenth-Century Revolution, Nineteenth-Century Eddies 4 Twentieth-Century Pendulum Swings 5 Semidemocracy, Pseudodemocracy, Democracy 6 Beyond the Great Democratic Wave 7 Into the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges, New Opportunities

Participatory Publics: Civil Society and New Institutions in Democratic Brazil

Abstract: Brazil is home to some of the most successful experiences in participatory local government. The proliferation of civil society organizations in Brazil during the transition to democratic rule was accompanied by the development of new political values and strategies that fostered institutional renewal at the municipal level. Brazil's 1988 constitution decentralized political authority, thereby granting municipal administrations sufficient resources and political independence to restructure policymaking processes. Coalitions of civil society organizations and political reformers have taken advantage of this flexibility to experiment with new institutional types. The political strategies of civil society organizations are often driven by the need to find immediate solutions to dire social problems and by a broader interest in increasing the access of ordinary citizens to key decision-making venues. The strategies of the political reformers, often led by the left-of-center Workers' Party (PT), have been based on transforming how and to whom public goods are distributed. Scholars in the theoretical debate on democratization have missed key linkages among civil society activists, local participation, governing coalitions, and institutions because they have conceived of only two mutually exclusive options, the demobilization of civil society in posttransition settings and the emergence of counterinstitutional civil society organizations of a social movement type. These theoretical frameworks are unable to show how Brazil's civil society is linked to efforts to expand the institutional terrain on which citizens compete for political resources. This article identifies cases in Brazil where civil society organizations challenge old practices, such as clientelism and patronage, while simultaneously offering concrete alternatives for new practices, strategies, and institutions. The specific political strategies developed by civil society organizations during Brazil's transition to democracy fostered the creation of deliberative policymaking institutions. One institutional type, participatory budgeting, incorporates citizens into deliberative decision-making venues. Political activity within civil society has led to significant political and social change in municipal government in Brazil, belying claims that Brazil finds itself trapped in a "deadlocked democracy."' Participatory budgeting was initiated in 1989 in the municipality of Porto Alegre

The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle

Abstract: Introduction -- Singing civil rights : the freedom song tradition -- Scenarios for revolution : the drama of the Black Panthers -- The poetical is the political : feminist poetry and the poetics of women's rights -- Revolutionary walls : Chicano/a murals, Chicano/a movements -- Old cowboys, new Indians : Hollywood frames the American Indian movement -- "We are [not] the world" : famine, apartheid, and the politics of rock music -- Acting up against AIDS : the (very) graphic arts in a postmodern epidemic -- Environmental justice ecocriticism : race, class, gender, and literary ecologies -- Will the revolution be cybercast? : new media, the battle of Seattle, and global justice -- Reflections on the cultural study of social movements.