Professional Performances on a Well-Constructed Stage: The Case of an Institutionalized Advocacy Organization

Landriscina, Mirella

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-72594-9_8

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“…Sustained exchange is an integral way in which SMOs "traverse the official terrain of formal politics" (Suh 2011: 443). The case studied here further supports Suh's argument and the findings of Alvarez (1999), Landriscina (2007), and Giugni and Passy (1998) in demonstrating that institutionalization can be an effective way for an SMO to enhance its ability to achieve movement goals.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Scholars have identified potential outcomes of institutionalized social movement advocacy other than cooptation, such as movement facilitation that can occur through the harnessing of governmental resources (Landriscina 2007). Institutionalization can facilitate SMOs when relations of "conflictual cooperation" can be established with government actors (Evers 1990;Giugni and Passy 1998).…”

Section: The Effects Of Institutionalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Strategic Tradeoffs: Movement-Government Interactions and Dutch Gay and Lesbian Policy, 1986–1994*

Davidson¹

2018

Mobilization: An International Quarterly

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Interactions between social movements and government actors have been conceptualized as either combative and exclusionary or institutionalized and coopted. This article transcends that dichotomy by tracing one social movement organization's tactical pursuit of institutionalization, examining the process through which institutionalization occurred, and evaluating its effects. This case study, based on qualitative, archival data, traces the institutionalization of the gay and lesbian social movement organization, the Dutch Association for the Integration of Homosexuality, COC, between 1986 and 1994. The analysis offers three findings: First, institutionalization is a process built through sustained exchange relations over time. Second, institutionalization does not necessarily result in cooptation but does involve tradeoffs. Third, both SMO and governmental actors are affected, albeit differently, by the process of institutionalization. While the COC was primarily affected organizationally, the Dutch government became more activist by attempting to influence the social institution of sexuality to accommodate homosexuality.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: The Effects Of Institutionalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%