TY - JOUR
T1 - Movement organizations, synergistic tactics and environmental public policy
AU - Johnson, Erik W.
AU - Agnone, Jon
AU - McCarthy, John D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank Paul Burstein, Brayden King, Clark McPhail, Debra Minkojf Patrick Rafail, Jennifer Schwartz, Irina Voloshin, the Social Forces editor and anonymous reviewersfor their constructive comments. This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation (grant # SES-0201992) and the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen Institute (grant # 2003-NSRF-07). Direct correspondence to Erik Johnson, PO. Box 644020, 211 Wilson-Short Hall, Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164. E-mail:[email protected].
Funding Information:
The data were originally collected by Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, with the support of National Science Foundation grant number SBR 9320922, and were distributed through the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington and/or the Department of Politica! Science at Pennsylvania State University. For details, go to: http://depts.washington.edu/ampol/.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1353/sof.2010.0038
DO - 10.1353/sof.2010.0038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78049263941
SN - 0037-7732
VL - 88
SP - 2267
EP - 2292
JO - Social Forces
JF - Social Forces
IS - 5
ER -