Stirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866-1914

McCammon, Holly J.

doi:10.1353/sof.2001.0105

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“…Changes in the political process or political structure, such as changes in the configuration of resources or shifts in the arrangement of coalitions, can significantly affect the ability of a social movement to mobilize supporters and to affect policy outcomes ðEisinger 1973; Jenkins and Perrow 1977;Kitschelt 1986;Amenta and Zylan 1991;McCammon 2001;Meyer 2004Þ. Tarrow ð1998, pp. 19-20Þ has defined political opportunity structure broadly as the "consistent-but not necessarily formal or permanent-dimensions of the political struggle that encourage people to engage in contentious politics."…”

Section: Social Movement Organizations and Municipal Opportunity Strumentioning

confidence: 99%

The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000–2011

Steil¹,

Vasi²

2014

American Journal of Sociology

124

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Analyzing oppositional social movements in the context of municipal immigration ordinances, the authors examine whether the explanatory power of resource mobilization, political process, and strain theories of social movements' impact on policy outcomes differs when considering proactive as opposed to reactive movements. The adoption of pro-immigrant (proactive) ordinances was facilitated by the presence of immigrant community organizations and of sympathetic local political allies. The adoption of anti-immigrant (reactive) ordinances was influenced by structural social changes, such as rapid increases in the local Latino population, that were framed as threats. The study also finds that pro-immigrant protest events can influence policy in two ways, contributing both to the passage of pro-immigrant ordinances in the locality where protests occur and also inhibiting the passage of anti-immigrant ordinances in neighboring cities.

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Section: Social Movement Organizations and Municipal Opportunity Strumentioning

confidence: 99%

The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000–2011

Steil¹,

Vasi²

2014

American Journal of Sociology

124

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“…Research on social movement framing has traditionally focused on the identification of mobilizing frames (Zuo & Benford, 1995;Cadena-Roa, 2002), factors that affect the development of frames (McCaffrey & Keys, 2000;Rohlinger, 2002) and framing outcomes (Cress & Snow, 2000;McCammon, 2001;Martinez, 2009). To date, there has been very little research carried out on frame variation, except for that which focuses on changes in the way an issue or movement is framed from one point in time to another (Berbrier, 1998;Ferree et al, 2002;Rauch et al, 2007).…”

Section: Social Movements and Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Framed Encounters with Conservation and Mining Development: Indigenous Peoples' use of Strategic Framing in Suriname

Haalboom¹

2011

Social Movement Studies

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While studies on the use of framing as a strategy for social movements have proliferated in the past 20 years, little is still known about how and why the frames vary across social movement actors and/or events. This article addresses this knowledge lacuna by comparing and contrasting Indigenous peoples' use of rights and identity frames in response to conservation and development events in Suriname. The variation in frames, and possible reasons for these variations, was compared across actors and events by considering (1) alignments of the global Indigenous rights movement with different movements and organizations over time, and (2) participants' level of involvement with national and global Indigenous rights movements. Evidence of strategic frame variation in this study demonstrated Indigenous peoples' ability to creatively and strategically pursue their interests by asserting their collective identity and rights in encounters with conservation and development projects. They accomplished this through the presentation of frames that called into question the logic and fairness of protected areas, their innate capacity to protect the environment, as well as their rights to land, and economic interests in mining. The greater use of rights frames by participants reflected networks generated with human rights organizations. Frame inconsistencies were apparent across conservation and development events that indicated uneven levels of involvement with Indigenous rights movements, which may yet produce unintended consequences for Indigenous communities. However, this case could also signal new possibilities for Indigenous peoples in terms of greater maneuverability in being able to assert their rights and negotiate their identities in relation to conservation and development, and ultimately to gain more power and autonomy over their own affairs.

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“…However, other studies find that political opportunity variables do not have robust effects when predicting the formation of new organizations. For example, McCammon (2001) finds that political opportunities, such as the openness of state legislatures to the voting rights of women and party competition, did not influence state suffrage organizing.…”

Section: Past Research On Organizational Formationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Panethnicity: Boundary Formation in Asian-American Organizing

Okamoto

2006

Social Forces

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In the wake of the civil rights movement, new organizations formed which were based on the collective interests and identities of their constituencies. Some of these organizations brought together national origin groups who often differed by ethnicity, language, culture, religion and immigration history. In this paper, 1 focus on the conditions that facilitate the institutionalization of a socially constructed panethnic community. Using a new longitudinal data set of Asian American organizations, I draw upon a theory of panethnicity which emphasizes the structured relations between groups at different boundary levels to understand panethnic organizational foundings. When controlling for resource availability, political opportunities and organizational dynamics, the boundary formation variables remain important in explaining new organizational activity.Since the 1970s, organizational activity based on a collective identity derived from members' common interests and experiences has become an increasingly prevalent option for social change efforts. The organizational forms that emerged during the Civil Rights era illuminate the new ways in which groups not only fulfilled the social and economic needs of their respective communities, but demonstrate how ethnic minorities were able to institute collective identities and provide a framework for the articulation of group interests. Some of these organizations served and brought together national origin groups who often differed by language, culture, religion and immigration history. Based on the socially constructed notion of a panethnic community, organizations such as the National Council of La Raza, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance and the National Urban Indian Development Corporation played an important role in securing civil rights for their respective communities by providing services and advocacy for different ethnic and tribal communities under a unified panethnic framework while contributing to the creation of new cultural and political identities. Recently, such organizations have been successful in campaigns against anti-immigrant legislation, unfair wages, poor working conditions and the Jack of affordable housing and economic opportunities. Under what conditions are national-origin groups who differ by language, culture, collective history, religion and immigration status able to construct a panethnic identity upon which to form a larger collective? What conditions influence the institutionalization of a socially constructed panethnic community?

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Stirring Up Suffrage Sentiment: The Formation of the State Woman Suffrage Organizations, 1866-1914

Cited by 83 publications

References 61 publications

The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000–2011

The New Immigration Contestation: Social Movements and Local Immigration Policy Making in the United States, 2000–2011

Framed Encounters with Conservation and Mining Development: Indigenous Peoples' use of Strategic Framing in Suriname

Institutional Panethnicity: Boundary Formation in Asian-American Organizing

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