Title: The impact of national contexts on social movement structures: A cross-movement and cross-national comparison
Abstract:Political opportunity theorists have mainly dealt with mobilization for protest as the primary dependent variable. Opportunities were clearly assets of their environment and not properties of the prot...Political opportunity theorists have mainly dealt with mobilization for protest as the primary dependent variable. Opportunities were clearly assets of their environment and not properties of the protest groups themselves. Thus, the crucial question was: "Which opportunities facilitate or restrict the kind and/or extent of mobilization?" Some authors have treated the level of mobilization (Kriesi, 1989b, 1991; Tarrow, 1989b, 1991b) or the strengths of movements (Rucht, 1995) as the dependent variable. Others focused more specifically on movement strategies (Eisinger, 1973; Kitschelt, 1986), behavior (della Porta and Rucht, 1991), or outcomes (Kitschelt, 1986). Underlying all this work is the explicit or implicit assumption that external opportunities have a direct effect on these dependent variables. However, the literature neglects the role of the structural basis for mobilization. This is surprising, because few social movement scholars doubt that movement networks and organizations have a strong impact on strategies, mobilization, and success.Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-26
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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