Movement Organizations, Synergistic Tactics and Environmental Public Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18980337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik W Johnson (0000-0001-8725-5177, Washington State University, corresponding author), Jon Agnone (0000-0003-2791-4761, University of Washington), John D Mccarthy (Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 2267-2292 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1353/sof.2010.0038 |
| OpenAlex | W2047441890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 48 |
| References cited | 65 |
This study builds on political mediation and movement infrastructure models to highlight contingent and synergistic ways in which social movements may impinge upon the U.S. national policy-making process. Analyses employ a variety of datasets to examine the role of environmental movement organizational capacity, protest and institutional activity in garnering Congressional attention to, and action on, salient issues from 1961 through 1990. We find all types of movement activity, but especially the development of national organizational infrastructures, to be positively associated with the convening of Congressional hearings on the environment. Only when there are high levels of both protest and institutional activity is there any evidence that the environmental movement directly influences the passage of environmental laws
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental movement · Environmental planning · Environmental policy · Movement (music) · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public relations · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Environmental Science · Political Conflict and Governance · Public Administration · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
The Complex Agenda-Setting Power of Protest
How Radical Environmental Sabotage Impacts US Elections
Ecological Threat and the Founding of U.S. National Environmental Movement Organizations, 1962–1998
The influence of social movements on policies that constrain fossil fuel supply
Strategic Action Fields and the Context of Political Entrepreneurship
The Media as a Dual Mediator of the Political Agenda–Setting Effect of Protest. A Longitudinal Study in Six Western European Countries
Convergence and Divergence in Renewable Energy Policy among US States from 1998 to 2011
Public opinion and environmental policy output
Incentives or Mandates? Determinants of the Renewable Energy Policies of U.S. States, 1970-2012
“Shiny Happy People Laughing”
Beyond science and policy
The influence of organizations on policy
Institutional Activism
Going Green
Certainty, Fairness, and Balance
Local Protest and Federal Policy
Polls and Elections
The Psychology of Effective Activism
Cross-Cutting Influences of Environmental Protest and Legislation
Ideological Polarization and Organizational Form Evolution
NGOs, Ingos, and Environmental Policy Reform, 1970–2010
Four Eras of Studies of Politics and Social Movements in Social Forces
Democratic Politics and the Long March on Global Warming
A systematic review of the outcomes of sustained environmental collective action
Who responds to protest? Protest politics and party responsiveness in Western Europe
Current Explanations for the Variation in Same-Sex Marriage Policies in Western Countries
Defenders of the status quo
The Determinants of Public Policy
Testing Theories about Advocacy and Public Policy
Selective Deafness of Political Parties
How parties respond to protests in a changing political landscape
The public, the protester, and the bill
Bureaucratic politics and the translation of movement agendas
Assessing the effect of activists and their legislative allies in the amendment of bills in Chile
Environmental protest outcomes in austerity-era neoliberalism
Constitutionally mobilizing against climate change
Spiral-scaling climate action
Demonstrating Power
Raising the stakes
Social Movement Partyism and Congressional Opposition to Certifying the 2020 Presidential Election Results in the United States
A Strategic Approach to the Alliance-Formation Process Between Activists and Legislators in Chile
A Seat at the Table
Does Climate Protest Work? Partisanship, Protest, and Sentiment Pools
Building Environmentalism
Who gets the goods? Disentangling the effects of parliamentary representation and collective action on social spending
How Options Disappear
Monotonic market change
Understanding selection bias, time-lags and measurement bias in secondary data sources
The strategy of social protest
Poor People's Movements
Forcing the Spring
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Targets of Social Movements
Transnational Protest and Global Activism
Public Opinion in America
Interest Organizations, Information, and Policy Innovation in the U.S. Congress 1 2
Contributions, Lobbying, and Committee Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives
A Hero for the Aged? The Townsend Movement, the Political Mediation Model, and U.S. Old-Age Policy, 1934-1950
Conceptual origins, current problems, future direction
Threat (And Opportunity)
Why Movements Succeed or Fail
Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics
American Business and Political Power
Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements
The toxic waste movement
The evolution of the U.S. environmental movement from 1970 to 1990
Repression and popular collective action
Institutionalizing dissent
Amplifying Public Opinion
The Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Environmental Movement
The National Association of Manufacturers and the Militarization of American Conservatism
Images of Protest
All the Rioting That's Fit to Print
Advocacy Organizations in the U.S. Political Process
Age for Leisure? Political Mediation and the Impact of the Pension Movement on U.S. Old-Age Policy
Peasants or Bankers? The American Electorate and the U.S. Economy
Freedom is a constant struggle
Patterns of Representation
Poll Trends
Bill Sponsorship and Congressional Support for Policy Proposals, from Introduction to Enactment or Disappearance
Representation and Agenda Setting
Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data
Signals or Mixed Signals
The Strategies and Contexts of Social Protest
Structure and Opportunity
Channeling Black Insurgency
The War at Home
The Sequencing of Social Movements
When Do Movements Matter? The Politics of Contingency and the Equal Rights Amendment
Social Movements and Policy Implementation
Partisan Differences on Environmental Issues
Conceptualizing Political Opportunity
Cross-Cutting Influences of Environmental Protest and Legislation
Winning Woman Suffrage One Step at a Time
Protest and Policymaking
Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity and the Making of Federal Law
Why Estimates of the Impact of Public Opinion on Public Policy are Too High
Organizational Diversity, Vitality and Outcomes in the Civil Rights Movement
Dumping in Dixie
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Structural Social Change and the Mobilizing Effect of Threat
The Impact of Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Social Movement Organizations on Public Policy
The Civil Rights Movement's Struggle for Fair Employment
Movement-Countermovement Dynamics and the Emergence of New Institutions
The Use of Newspaper Data in the Study of Collective Action
Was it Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements
Analysis of Events in the Study of Collective Action
The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
Opportunity Organizations and Threat-Induced Contention
Movements, Countermovements, and the Structure of Political Opportunity
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
The Outcomes of Homeless Mobilization
Interracial Conflict and Interracial Homicide
| Unique citing works | 48 |
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| Citations per year | 2,82 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |