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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Social Movement Organizations"”.
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Collective action for the rights of sex offenders: evaluating social movement organizations
… who have been convicted of a sex offense. A social movement, made up of registrants and their family members, has sprung up across the country to address the resulting consequences that have ensued from these policies. State organizations are now working towards policy change for these …
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Trust Across Difference in Radical Social Movement Organizations: The Case of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
<p>Social movement literature does not properly address trust between activists as a foundation of social movement organizations. This thesis aims to fill that gap by examining how trust within the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a radical civil rights organization in the sixties, was …
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Cultivating Reform: Richard Nixon's Illicit Substance Control Legacy, Medical Marijuana Social Movement Organizations, And Venue Shopping
<p>Over the course of the last two decades, organizations representing the medical marijuana social movement have campaigned for, proposed state level legislation, and supported numerous legal arguments that challenge and attempt to reform U.S. federal illicit substance policies. This set of social …
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Institutionalizing ethnic demands: framing processes, resource mobilization, and indicators of party formation in Colombian ethnic movements
… and mobilization processes in Colombian ethnic social movements. I employ systematic process analysis to analyze the question of why indigenous social movement organizations have created viable ethnic party vehicles in electoral politics while black social movement organizations have failed in …
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Alternative Tourism: A Social Movement Perspective
… and tests a theoretical model drawing on social psychological and resource-mobilization perspectives of social movement theory to explain changes in social movement participation and support for activism among Earthwatch Expedition volunteers. The social psychological perspective of social …
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Flexible Acculturation: On Taiwanese Relocations to China
… 2002, I have also collected documents of many social institutions, including governments, political parties, media, social movement organizations, and online forums for the public. The date of these documents ranged from the early 1980s to 2007.
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Collaborative methods in social movement organizing : a case study of long-term alliance development and energy efficiency planning in Massachusetts
Some social movement organizations have begun to use collaborative methods to create decentralized network power for shared action through long-term alliance development and participation in collaborative public decision-making forums. Through the history of Community Labor United (CLU), a …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… bestowed more legitimacy than within the courts. Social "facts" might be established within the legal forum, but nonetheless connect to everyday life. Research in social movements and judicial politics is thus becoming increasingly useful as social movement organizations increasingly compete …
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Denying Queer Realities: Scripting the Normative Homo.
… lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement further marginalizes some queer individuals in the pursuit of legitimacy from the dominant heterosexist culture. This study uses qualitative content analysis to examine the Web sites of four social movement organizations that claim to work …
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Fracturing Illinois: Fields of Political Contention in Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Policy
… dissertation examines the interactions between social movement organizations and a variety of state and municipal targets of movement activity during the construction of the Illinois Hydraulic Fracturing Regulatory Act (HFRA). Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial method of oil and gas …
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Political Parties and Social Movements: Mobilizing and Representing Civil Society
… that emerged in Europe since 1945 have roots in social movements, but unlike older mainstream parties with movement origins they did not adopt an electoral-professional party model focused on pursuing the median voter. Neither have they retained their organizational connections to movements, thus …
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Structure and ideology in the mobilization of the New Christian Right: a test of a model
… explain grassroots mobilization by analyzing how social movement organizations (SMOs) use resources to mobilize people to political activity. Studies from this structural perspective credit the Moral Majority's mobilization of televangelists and political preacher in fundamentalist denominations …
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Growth, decay, and change: Organizations in the contemporary women's movement in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Social movements have three potential trajectories: they can grow; they can change, and they can decay and eventually die. To compare their trajectories, I examine 47 organizations in six women's movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the last twenty years. I synthesize data from interviews …
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Falling in Love, or Falling in Line? Trump, Clinton, and Mobilization in the 2016 Election in Florida
… explores questions of who becomes involved in social movements and why, but the literature is inconclusive as to whether individuals with opposing political views will likewise express different motivations for mobilizing in campaigns. Other scholars have also theorized the potential …
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Streetwise for book smarts : culture, community organizing, and education reform in the Bronx
… in their campaigns. In the literature on social movement organizations, such differences are usually attributed to variations in political context, or variations in resources. This dissertation builds on currently dominant social movement theories by investigating how cultural norms inside …
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Mobilization among the homeless: A comparative study of organization, action, and outcomes in eight United States cities.
… in eight U.S. cities. Much of the focus of social movement research emphasizes either broad macro-level social processes or micro-level individual characteristics to understand movement dynamics. This research focuses on the organizational context and dynamics of homeless mobilization. I …
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The Foundations of Anti-System Protests in Democracy
… episodes of unresponsiveness lead sectoral movement organizations to accumulate unresolved demands, to prefer extra-institutional action, and to strategically update by escalating their targets of blame to the political system. With these foundations in place, democracies become vulnerable …
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The social impact of open government data
… claims. While this notion of OGD as a tool for social change through political advocacy is plausible, the research reports little evidence of social impact. In a comparative study of social projects in Hong Kong, the Dominican Republic, and Chile, I conducted a qualitative investigation into why …
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Quest(ion)s of Anarchist Power: Rethinking Power-To, Power-Over, and Power-With in the Radical Democratic Praxis of Consensus Decision-Making
… investigate the theory and practice of power in social movement organizations that use consensus decision-making, a form of deliberation that espouses radically democratic and anarchist political ideals. Over the past several decades consensus decision-making has grown popular in …
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Networked activists and the movement for democracy in Hong Kong
The Umbrella Movement was arguably the largest and longest episode of collective contention in the history of Hong Kong, where political activism for democracy surged when a conservative reform to Hong Kong's electoral system was announced by the mainland Chinese government in late August 2014. …
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