Linking strategic choice with macro-organizational dynamics: strategy and social movement articulation

Downey, Dennis J.; Rohlinger, Deana A.

doi:10.1016/s0163-786x(08)28001-8

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“…Density in the interest organization population is consequently likely to strongly reduce the range of strategic options, as is further reflected in the construction of interest group identities in specific niches (Heaney, 2004). Third, studies of social movement industries similarly find that tactical and positional specialization is related to interest community density (McCarthy and Zald, 1977;Downey and Rohlinger, 2008). This effect operates together with, in the words of King (2008, p. 1598), the 'influence of a broader environmental resource base' within society that favors unspecialized, more general organizations.…”

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Why interest organizations do what they do: Assessing the explanatory potential of ‘exchange’ approaches

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Why interest organizations do what they do: Assessing the explanatory potential of ‘exchange’ approaches

2013

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“…Strategies employed by social movements may involve conventional means of persuasion such as lobbying, petitions, or press conferences as well as more confrontational or disruptive tactics such as demonstrations, marches, boycotts, or other direct action . Specific strategic choices generally emerge out of a broader strategic orientation of groups and activists, which involve ongoing consideration of "trade-offs" between the depth of the political challenge to authority (e.g., demands for incremental or fundamental social change) and breadth of appeal to potential activists or allies (Downey & Rohlinger, 2008).…”

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Strategies Employed by Inner-City Activists to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems and Advance Social Justice

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2014

Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

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Abstract:This study explored strategies employed by activists engaged in efforts to change policies and laws related to selling and promoting alcoholic beverages based on in-depth interviews with 184 social activists in seven U.S. major cities. Nine strategies aimed at improving local conditions and influencing policy were described by activists across regional contexts. Grassroots mobilization was central to all other strategies, which included creation or enforcement of laws, meeting with elected officials, media advocacy, working with police/law enforcement, education and training, direct action, changing community norms, and negotiating with store owners. Key Words:Alcohol policy, environmental prevention, racial minorities, community activism, urban populations, grassroots organizing Acknowledgements:

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“…Social movement literature discusses how this is common in most movements. Many social movement organizations often attempt to distance themselves from more radical organizations (Downey & Rohlinger, 2008;Haines, 1995) because they want to highlight how the goals of the movement are consistent with societal values, principally by stressing dominant values that align with the desired social change (Klandermans, 1988;Snow & Benford, 1992). These theorists characterize this as typical within movements, which complicates my assertion that these organizations are outside of the GRM.…”

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“…However, this model does not address the advent, since the 1960s, of identity-based organizations built for long-term work. Many have noted that political opportunities are too often unproductively reified as static moments and objective structures (Downey & Rohlinger, 2008). For these reasons, this model offers little to a deep understanding of the mechanisms of the QLM.…”

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“…Gamson (1990) is one of numerous social movement scholars who contend that it is common for movements to have more radical groups exist in tension with more moderate ones. Downey and Rohlinger (2008) refer to this as the existence of different players "widely spread across the political possibilities frontier" (p. 23). Social movement theorists claim that organizational diversity and tensions within a movement can lead to a reintegration that brings with it a 296 healthy variety of tactics that can be deployed in different circumstances (McCammon, 2003).…”

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A Queer Liberation Movement? A Qualitative Content Analysis of Queer Liberation Organizations, Investigating Whether They are Building a Separate Social Movement

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2000

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In the last forty years, U.S. national and statewide LGBT organizations, in pursuit of "equality" through a limited and focused agenda, have made remarkably swift progress moving that agenda forward. However, their agenda has been frequently criticized as prioritizing the interests of White, middle-class gay men and lesbians and ignoring the needs of other LGBT people. In their shadows have emerged numerous grassroots organizations led by queer people of color, transgender people, and low-income LGBT people. These "queer liberation" groups have often been viewed as the left wing of the GRM, but have not been extensively studied. My research investigated how these grassroots liberation organizations can be understood in relation to the equality movement, and whether they actually comprise a separate movement operating alongside, but in tension with, the mainstream gay rights movement.This research used a qualitative content analysis, grounded in black feminism's framework of intersectionality, queer theory, and social movement theories, to examine eight queer liberation organizations. Data streams included interviews with staff at each organization, organizational videos from each group, and the organizations' mission statements. The study used deductive content analysis, informed by a predetermined categorization matrix drawn from social movement theories, and also featured inductive analysis to expand those categories throughout the analysis. This study's findings indicate that a new social movement -distinct from the mainstream equality organizations -does exist. Using criteria informed by leading social movement theories, findings demonstrate that these organizations cannot be understood ii as part of the mainstream equality movement but must be considered a separate social movement. This "queer liberation movement" has constituents, goals, strategies, and structures that differ sharply from the mainstream equality organizations. This new movement prioritizes queer people in multiple subordinated identity categories, is concerned with rebuilding institutions and structures, rather than with achieving access to them, and is grounded more in "liberation" or "justice" frameworks than "equality." This new movement does not share the equality organizations' priorities (e.g., marriage) and, instead, pursues a different agenda, include challenging the criminal justice and immigration systems, and strengthening the social safety net.Additionally, the study found that this new movement complicates existing social movement theory. For decades, social movement scholars have documented how the redistributive agenda of the early 20th century class-based social movements has been replaced by the demands for access and recognition put forward by the identity-based movements of the 1960s New Left. While the mainstream equality movement can clearly be characterized as an identity-based social movement, the same is not true of the groups in this study. This queer liberation movement, although centered on identity claim...

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Linking strategic choice with macro-organizational dynamics: strategy and social movement articulation

Cited by 61 publications

References 40 publications

Why interest organizations do what they do: Assessing the explanatory potential of ‘exchange’ approaches

Why interest organizations do what they do: Assessing the explanatory potential of ‘exchange’ approaches

Strategies Employed by Inner-City Activists to Reduce Alcohol-Related Problems and Advance Social Justice

A Queer Liberation Movement? A Qualitative Content Analysis of Queer Liberation Organizations, Investigating Whether They are Building a Separate Social Movement

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