Framing, Political Opportunities, and Civic Mobilization in The Eastern European Revolutions
A Case Study of Poland's Freedom and Peace Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7921153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Padraic Kenney (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-210 |
| Publication date | 2001-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514 |
| Publisher | Mobilization Journal (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17813/maiq.6.2.5r33j8553677u806 |
| OpenAlex | W2250631143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 27 |
Scholarship on the revolutions of 1989 has failed to take into account the role social movements played in civic mobilization in the late communist period. This is in part due to shortcomings in the theory of political opportunities as applied to repressive regimes. Through a case study of the Freedom and Peace movement, prominent in Poland between 1985 and 1989, this article shows how such a movement needed to create its own opportunities. Its emergence and ability to mobilize cannot be explained within the widely accepted model of political opportunity structures. Attention is directed instead to three movement strategies: exploiting opportunities within the underground opposition; reframing state repression as a motivation for activism; and choosing issues, such as resistance to the draft and environmental protest, which exposed weaknesses in the communist regime and thus lowered the perceived risks of participation
Cognitive reframing · Communism · Framing (construction · Mobilization · Opportunity structures · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political mobilization · Political opportunity · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social mobilization · Social movement · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Engineering · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,55 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |