High profile rape trials and policy advocacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6296287 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristine Coulter, D S Meyer (0000-0001-8511-9307, University of California System) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-61 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-814X • E-ISSN: 1469-7815 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0143814x1400018x |
| OpenAlex | W2134481544 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
Activists try to use high profile trials to advance their political agendas, and we want to understand why they occasionally succeed in promoting policy reforms. We begin by reviewing literature on agenda setting and social problem construction, conceptualising high profile trials as “focusing events” that offer activists a chance to advance their definitions and remedies for particular social problems. We next outline the feminist movement against sexual violence as a useful example of activists trying to use trials for their own political purposes. Using events data from theNew York Timesand the secondary treatment of 13 high profile trials from 1960 to 1997, we examine factors that help or hinder activists’ efforts to use a trial to forward their cause. We see that both the nature of the trial and the political context surrounding it affect the likelihood that a movement gains control of its meaning and secures policy reform
Context (archaeology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public relations · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Psychology · Public Administration · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
Redesigning Social Inquiry
African American women and violence
American Political Trials
The Prison and the Gallows
Configurational Comparative Methods
Changing Political Opportunity
Megan's Law
Making Meaning of Megan's Law
Core versus tangential assumptions in comparative research
Qualitative comparative analysis vis-à-vis regression
Lower Class Insurgency and the Political Process
Mapping the Margins
Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data
Claiming Credit
Movements and Memory
How to Stop the Rapists? A Question of Strategy in Two Rape Crisis Centers
The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Rape as a Social Problem
The Use of Newspaper Data in the Study of Collective Action
The Stages of the Policy Process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982
The Rise and Fall of Social Problems
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |