Movement Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, Erik W.; Agnone, Jon; McCarthy, John D.
Titel	Movement Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 88 (2010) 5, S.2267-2292 (26 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
Schlagwörter	Social Change; Conservation (Environment); Public Policy; Activism; Hearings; Social Science Research; Legislation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialer Wandel; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Öffentliche Ordnung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Gesetzgebungslehre
Abstract	This study builds on political mediation and movement infrastructure models to highlight contingent and synergistic ways in which social movements may impinge upon the U.S. national policy-making process. Analyses employ a variety of datasets to examine the role of environmental movement organizational capacity, protest and institutional activity in garnering Congressional attention to, and action on, salient issues from 1961 through 1990. We find all types of movement activity, but especially the development of national organizational infrastructures, to be positively associated with the convening of Congressional hearings on the environment. Only when there are high levels of "both" protest and institutional activity is there any evidence that the environmental movement directly influences the passage of environmental laws. (Contains 3 tables and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10