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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.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors resolve a theoretical puzzle that characterizes the political preferences of members of social groups by demonstrating that political homogeneity is a variable to be explained, and that political preference is not a fixed variable.
Abstract: The authors resolve a theoretical puzzle that characterizes the political preferences of members of social groups by (a) demonstrating that political homogeneity is a variable to be explained, (b) ...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the expansion of social movement organizations, or organizational density, is also an essential component of protest cycles and that an enduring organizational niche and political allies in power are necessary for protest to spread beyond single movements and create protest opportunities for other challengers.
Abstract: Conventional accounts of protest cycles posit a demonstration effect-successful protests incite other constituencies to activism. The author offers an alternative theory that builds on population ecology models of organizational behavior. He argues that the expansion of social movement organizations, or organizational density, is also an essential component of protest cycles. Multivariate analyses of the effects of civil rights protest and organizational growth on feminist protest and organizational foundings between 1955 and 1985 demonstrate that organizational density promotes the diffusion of protest. Protest also engenders activism by others, but only under favorable political conditions. This implies that an enduring organizational niche and political allies in power are necessary for protest to spread beyond single movements and create protest opportunities for other challengers
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10 Apr 2003TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the dangers of political inclusion: Moderation and Bureaucratization, and the dynamics of Democratization in the four countries of the United States, Movements, and Democracy.
Abstract: 1. States, Movements, and Democracy 2. Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Four Countries 3. Cooptive or Effective Inclusion? Movement Aims and State Imperatives 4. The Perils of Political Inclusion: Moderation and Bureaucratization 5. The Dynamics of Democratization 6. Evaluating Movement Effectiveness and Strategy 7. Ecological Modernization, Risk Society, and the Green State Conclusion
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01 Jan 1998
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the status of foreigners: a shibboleth, abuse of power by the advocates of reason, the left hand and the right hand of the State.
Abstract: To the Reader. The left hand and the right hand of the State. Sollers tel quel. The status of foreigners: a shibboleth. Abuse of power by the advocates of reason. The train drivera s remark. Against the destruction of a civilization. The myth of "globalization" and the European welfare state. The thoughts of Chairman Tietmeyer. Social scientists, economic science and the social movement. For a new internationalism. Return to television. The government finds the people irresponsible. Job insecurity is everywhere now. The movement of the unemployed, a social miracle. The negative intellectual. Neo--liberalism, the utopia (becoming a reality) of unlimited exploitation. References.
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TL;DR: The authors argue that existing critiques of communicative planning become more salient when we consider the challenges posed by neoliberalization, which is understood here as the ongoing process of "reformulation".
Abstract: This article argues that existing critiques of communicative planning become more salient when we consider the challenges posed by neoliberalization, which is understood here to mean the ongoing pr...
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