Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

Earl, Jennifer; Soule, Sarah A.; McCarthy, John

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“…For these reasons, minority movements are much more likely to experience coercive repression (Davenport, Soule and Armstrong 2011;Earl, McCarthy and Soule 2003;Rafail, Soule and McCarthy 2012). Christian Davenport (2005) shows that 1960s-1970s repression against a Black Nationalist group in Detroit targeted the neighborhoods where targets lived, not just the individual members.…”

Section: Ethnic Minority Movementsmentioning

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The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

Oliver¹

2017

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This paper draws on work in the social construction of race and ethnicity to explain why race/ethnic divisions are so often axes of domination and why these divisions are central to social movements. Ethnic/racial groups are constructed in political processes that are intertwined with state formation and social movements. Processes of state formation and collective action create ethnic/racial groups, define majorities and minorities, and create racial/ethnic structures of domination. Physical and social segregation in tandem with intergenerational inheritance creates network cliquing that reinforces group boundaries, group differences, and group interests. Movements by members of dominant racial/ethnic majorities differ from movements by members of subordinate racial/ethnic minorities in key ways including access to democratic processes for achieving group goals, experience of repression, need for allies, identity construction, processes of consciousness raising, and bases of mobilization. The "ethnic dimensions" matter for all social movements.

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Section: Ethnic Minority Movementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

Oliver¹

2017

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“…Our approach continues an established tradition in social movement scholarship of using archival newspaper data to identify instances of social movement tactics (e.g., McAdam & Su, 2002;Earl, Soule, & McCarthy, 2003;Earl, Martin, Soule, & McCarthy, 2004;Van Dyke, Soule, & Taylor, 2004;King, 2008;McDonnell & King, 2013;McDonnell, King, & Soule, 2014).…”

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Blacklisted Benefactors: The Political Contestation of Non-Market Strategy

McDonnell

Werner

2015

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This paper explores whether and how contentious stakeholders can disrupt a firm's non-market strategy. We offer the first systematic study of the effect of public protest on corporate political activity, using a unique database that allows us to empirically analyze the impact of social movement boycotts on targeted firms' campaign contributions. We show that boycotts lead to significant reductions in the amount of targets' campaign contributions and increase the proportion of contributions that politicians refund. These results highlight the importance of considering how a firm's socio-political environment shapes its non-market strategy. We supplement this primary analysis by drawing from social movement theory to extrapolate and test a number of mechanisms that moderate the extent to which movement challenges effectively disrupt corporate political activity. ABSTRACTThis paper explores whether and how contentious stakeholders can disrupt a firm's non-market strategy. We offer the first systematic study of the effect of public protest on corporate political activity, using a unique database that allows us to empirically analyze the impact of social movement boycotts on targeted firms' campaign contributions. We show that boycotts lead to significant reductions in the amount of targets' campaign contributions and increase the proportion of contributions that politicians refund. These results highlight the importance of considering how a firm's socio-political environment shapes its non-market strategy. We supplement this primary analysis by drawing from social movement theory to extrapolate and test a number of mechanisms that moderate the extent to which movement challenges effectively disrupt corporate political activity.* We would like to thank Caroline Flammer, Olga Hawn, Shon Hiatt, Brayden King, Jiao Luo, Jeff Macher, Michael Malbin, and Ed Walker, as well as seminar participants at Wharton, Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Chicago Booth, the University of Texas, the University of Maryland, Rice University, Boston University, and Ohio State University for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this paper. This paper was previously presented at the 2014 annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and the Strategic Management Society. Blacklisted Benefactors 2 Blacklisted Benefactors: The Political Contestation of Non-Market StrategyFirms exist in multiple institutional environments, requiring interaction with myriad audiences who often have conflicting expectations and demands (Scott, 1987;Greenwood, 2011). One of the most critical of these audiences is the state, which crafts the rules of the game that define market competition and creates the system of laws and punishments that comprise the formal, regulatory pillar of firms' institutional environments (Scott, 2001). Though legal rules certainly constrain corporate behavior, firms do not passively acquiesce to the iron cage of their regulatory institutions. Rather, work at the inte...

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“…Unfortunately, Mexican police reports on protest events are not public information, nor are data on the number of military personnel and military or police expenses. Consequently, they cannot be used as measures of repression in Mexico as scholars have done in studying repression of protests in other contexts (Earl et al 2003). Newspaper reports on Zapatista protest events rarely mentioned whether police or military personnel were present and thus could not be used systematically.…”

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Sliding Doors of Opportunity: Zapatistas and Their Cycle of Protest

Inclán

2015

Handbook of Social Movements Across Latin America

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Protest under Fire? Explaining the Policing of Protest

Cited by 301 publications

References 30 publications

The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

The Ethnic Dimensions in Social Movements

Blacklisted Benefactors: The Political Contestation of Non-Market Strategy

Sliding Doors of Opportunity: Zapatistas and Their Cycle of Protest

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