The Contextual Dependence of Movement Outcomes: A Simplified Meta-Analysis

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2009-12-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.14.4.M8477J873P47P546

Katrin Uba

引用次数: 57

Abstract

This article investigates the empirical evidence for the statement that the impact of social movement organizations (SMOs) and interest groups on policy making is dependent on public opinion and the political system. A meta-analysis of articles published in eleven sociology and political science journals from 1990 to 2007 is used to test two hypotheses: 1) when public opinion is taken into account, SMOs and interest groups have no direct effect on policy; 2) the existence of a democratic regime is a necessary precondition for finding any policy impact of SMOs and interest groups. Results show that taking account of public opinion does not generally make any difference in the finding of direct effects. However, the role of public opinion varies across the measures of organizational resources and activity. I also find that a democratic regime is not a necessary precondition for the impact of SMOs and interest groups on public policy, but show that a direct effect of interest organizations is less likely to be found in the studies that take account of political regime.

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运动结果的情境依赖性:一个简化的元分析

本文考察了社会运动组织和利益集团对政策制定的影响取决于民意和政治制度这一说法的经验证据。本文对1990年至2007年11份社会学和政治学期刊上发表的文章进行了荟萃分析，以检验两个假设:1)当考虑民意时，SMOs和利益集团对政策没有直接影响;2)民主政权的存在是发现任何SMOs和利益集团的政策影响的必要前提。结果表明，考虑公众意见通常不会对发现直接影响产生任何影响。然而，公众舆论的作用在组织资源和活动的度量中是不同的。我还发现，民主制度并不是SMOs和利益集团影响公共政策的必要前提，但在考虑政治制度的研究中，利益组织的直接影响较少。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.