MobilizationPub Date : 2017-10-09DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-293
M. Kadivar
{"title":"PREELECTION MOBILIZATION AND ELECTORAL OUTCOME IN AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES","authors":"M. Kadivar","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-293","url":null,"abstract":"Does preelection protest have an effect on the outcomes of authoritarian elections? Electoral authoritarian regimes use elections to consolidate their power and claim democratic legitimacy. Nonetheless, on some occasions authoritarian incumbents lose elections despite their advantages, and a democratic breakthrough is achieved. I propose that preelection protests contribute to such election results. Existing scholarship focuses primarily on the effectiveness of postelection upheavals, and the effects of preelection protest are still theoretically and empirically understudied. This article proposes a theory for why preelection contention has an independent effect on incumbent defeat of authoritarian regimes and democratization. I present empirical support for the association between preelection protest activities, incumbent defeat, and democratization using data from 190 elections across 65 countries with nondemocratic regimes. The findings of this analysis have important implications for studies of social...","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"293-310"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-293","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42027144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-275
Marc Lavine, J. Cobb, C. Roussin
{"title":"WHEN SAYING LESS IS SOMETHING NEW: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND FRAME-CONTRACTION PROCESSES","authors":"Marc Lavine, J. Cobb, C. Roussin","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-275","url":null,"abstract":"The framing strategies of social movements are typically characterized by movement actors conceptually and rhetorically expanding frames. We contend that movement actors also contract frames by del...","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"275-292"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41781198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-345
Laura J. Heideman
{"title":"CULTIVATING PEACE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT PROFESSIONALIZATION AND NGOIZATION IN CROATIA*","authors":"Laura J. Heideman","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-345","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars studying social movements and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have noted a rapid expansion in the number of professional organizations dedicated to creating social change. This study ...","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"345-362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-3-345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44796370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-23-3-331
Marieke Born, A. Akkerman
{"title":"Peer support in industrial action: how colleagues' anticipated social support affects willingness to strike","authors":"Marieke Born, A. Akkerman","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-23-3-331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-23-3-331","url":null,"abstract":"This article studies how the support workers expect from colleagues for strike participation affects their willingness to participate in a strike. We formulate hypotheses on the effects of anticipated social support for participation as well as anticipated social support for nonparticipation. We include the potentially mediating effect of social identification and the social costs of (non-)participation. We test our hypotheses on survey data of 725 Dutch employees collected in 2010. Using structural equation modeling techniques, we find that the support for participation has a stronger positive effect on the willingness to strike than the support for nonparticipation has on the willingness to strike. In addition, our findings suggest that union membership substitutes the effect of social support of colleagues.","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"331-344"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-23-3-331","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49666620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-311
J. V. Laer
{"title":"THE MOBILIZATION DROPOUT RACE: INTERPERSONAL NETWORKS AND MOTIVATIONS PREDICTING DIFFERENTIAL RECRUITMENT IN A NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE DEMONSTRATION*","authors":"J. V. Laer","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-311","url":null,"abstract":"The question of why some people participate in collective action, while most of them do not, has puzzled social movement scholars for decades, continuing to generate a burgeoning literature on what...","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"311-329"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-20-3-311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45739822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-06-29DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-223
L. Bosi, D. Davis
{"title":"“\"What is to be done?\": Agency and the causation of transformative events in Ireland's 1916 Rising and 1969 Long March”","authors":"L. Bosi, D. Davis","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-223","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the role of agency in the causation of transformative events by looking at the competition between rival strands within social movements. The creative activity involved in the elaboration and execution of rival strategies is used as a proxy for agency. We present a paired comparison of two very different transformative events in twentieth-century Ireland—the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Long March from Belfast to Derry in 1969—and the strategic interactions preceding them. The comparison shows how agency and structure can interact around transformative events. High levels of agency were instrumental in making the events, and in turn these events catalyzed powerful social forces. These forces were structural—that is, they reflected divisions, tensions, and power relations that were deeply engrained in the social structure over the long term. However, these structural forces could have remained dormant had it not been for the bursts of agency that brought about the transformative ...","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"223-243"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-223","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47479371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-06-29DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-201
M. Portos, J. Masullo
{"title":"VOICING OUTRAGE UNEVENLY: DEMOCRATIC DISSATISFACTION, NONPARTICIPATION, AND PARTICIPATION FREQUENCY IN THE 15-M CAMPAIGN*","authors":"M. Portos, J. Masullo","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-201","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores frequencies of participation and nonparticipation in the 15-M protest campaign in Spain. Given the nature of this campaign, we focus on democratic dissatisfaction. Our findings suggest that, relative to nonparticipants, democratic dissatisfaction is significantly associated with multiple-time participation, but not with one-time participation. In other words, those who participated only once are not substantially more dissatisfied than those who did not participate. This is remarkable because the “indignados” label and the slogan “Real Democracy Now!” suggest that democratic discontent is a central factor uniting 15-M challengers. Relying on a general survey with questions on different frequencies of participation in the 15-M campaign and on qualitative evidence from two separate rounds of interviewing, we show that not all those who participated, when compared to nonparticipants, were in fact that outraged.","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"201-222"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43721882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-06-29DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-245
J. D. Moor, Sofie Marien, M. Hooghe
{"title":"WHY ONLY SOME LIFESTYLE ACTIVISTS AVOID STATE-ORIENTED POLITICS: A CASE STUDY IN THE BELGIAN ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT*","authors":"J. D. Moor, Sofie Marien, M. Hooghe","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-245","url":null,"abstract":"Lifestyle politics are often defined as a political strategy used to avoid state-oriented politics. However, recent studies indicate that in some cases, lifestyle activists engage in actions that target the state. This study investigates why some lifestyle activists combine these forms of engagement, while others do not. We explore whether such differences can be explained by variations in activists' perceptions of the political opportunity structure. In particular, we consider whether perceptions of input structures and output structures offer relevant predictors for combining lifestyle politics with state-oriented actions. The article presents an in-depth case study of a Belgian environmental lifestyle movement organization, using a mixed methods approach including participant observation, qualitative interviewing, and surveys. The findings reveal that lifestyle activists' perceptions of the openness of the system matter, but that beliefs in the state's ability to act are more diverse and therefore have...","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"245-264"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42652516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-131
J. Earl, L. Copeland, Bruce Bimber
{"title":"ROUTING AROUND ORGANIZATIONS: SELF-DIRECTED POLITICAL CONSUMPTION*","authors":"J. Earl, L. Copeland, Bruce Bimber","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-131","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research on activism in the context of digital media has argued that organizing can happen outside of organizations and even without SMOs. This work has been focused primarily on the “supply side” of participation. In this article, we expand this line of work by focusing on the “demand side.” We examine the distinction between self-directed and organizationally directed activism from the perspective of the individual, finding that shifts toward movement societies, the rise of lifestyle politics, and, to a lesser extent, changing citizenship norms explain citizen preferences for self-directed versus organizationally directed political consumption. We also analyze the relationship between political interest, different kinds of digital media use, and preferences for self-directed activism. We use original data from a survey in the U.S. on political consumption.","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"131-153"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-2-131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49599112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
MobilizationPub Date : 2017-04-06DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-22-1-1
Kathleen Blee
{"title":"HOW THE STUDY OF WHITE SUPREMACISM IS HELPED AND HINDERED BY SOCIAL MOVEMENT RESEARCH","authors":"Kathleen Blee","doi":"10.17813/1086-671X-22-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-22-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"Scholars of white supremacism adopted the framework of social movement research later and less completely than did scholars of progressive movements. Although the shift to considering racist groups as a social movement had many analytic benefits, it also nudged analysis away from some of the most central aspects of white supremacism. This article suggests how social movement research and scholarship on organized racism can benefit from a more reflective engagement with each other.","PeriodicalId":47309,"journal":{"name":"Mobilization","volume":"22 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2017-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.17813/1086-671X-22-1-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48313287","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}