Social movements occupy a shared ideational and resource space, which is often referred to as the social movement sector. This paper contributes to the understanding of the relational dynamics of the social movement sector by demonstrating how ideational linkages are formed through protest events. Using a dataset of protest events occurring in the United States from 1960 to 1995, we model the mechanisms shaping why certain movement issues (e.g., women’s and peace, or environmental and gay rights) appear together at protest events. We argue that both cultural similarity and status differences between two social movement issues are the underlying mechanisms that shape joint protest, and the resultant ideational linkages between issues. Finall...
The wave of sit-ins that swept through the American South in the spring of 1960 transformed the stru...
The current political moment has given birth to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other forms of resi...
The current political moment has given birth to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other forms of resi...
Staging events with a large number of participants is a central means by which collective action mov...
Why do social movements take the forms they do? How do activists\u27 efforts and beliefs interact wi...
Social movement spillover is an internal social movement sector outcome in which movements influence...
Social movements typically consist of several diverse organizations, with each using subtly differen...
Social movement spillover is an internal social movement sector outcome in which movements influence...
This thesis investigates the social forces that shape and sustain community-based protest against pr...
There had been no doubt that discontent is the absolutely explanatory factor of social movement invo...
Protest events present portraits of social problems—people, through collective action, send a messag...
Protest events present portraits of social problems—people, through collective action, send a messag...
In an attempt to make sense of shifts in the social movement sector and its relationship to conventi...
There had been no doubt that discontent is the absolutely explanatory factor of social movement invo...
Collective action and oppositional political activism are firmly established features of any society...
The wave of sit-ins that swept through the American South in the spring of 1960 transformed the stru...
The current political moment has given birth to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other forms of resi...
The current political moment has given birth to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other forms of resi...
Staging events with a large number of participants is a central means by which collective action mov...
Why do social movements take the forms they do? How do activists\u27 efforts and beliefs interact wi...
Social movement spillover is an internal social movement sector outcome in which movements influence...
Social movements typically consist of several diverse organizations, with each using subtly differen...
Social movement spillover is an internal social movement sector outcome in which movements influence...
This thesis investigates the social forces that shape and sustain community-based protest against pr...
There had been no doubt that discontent is the absolutely explanatory factor of social movement invo...
Protest events present portraits of social problems—people, through collective action, send a messag...
Protest events present portraits of social problems—people, through collective action, send a messag...
In an attempt to make sense of shifts in the social movement sector and its relationship to conventi...
There had been no doubt that discontent is the absolutely explanatory factor of social movement invo...
Collective action and oppositional political activism are firmly established features of any society...
The wave of sit-ins that swept through the American South in the spring of 1960 transformed the stru...
The current political moment has given birth to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other forms of resi...
The current political moment has given birth to the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and other forms of resi...