Bringing Leadership Back In

Ganz, Marshall; McKenna, Elizabeth

doi:10.1002/9781119168577.ch10

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“…This case also draws attention to potentially productive engagement between scholarship on social movements and on policy entrepreneurship. Critics contend that social movement scholarship has devoted insufficient attention to how movement leaders emerge and operate, focusing more on structural conditions and group-level behavior (Ganz and McKenna, 2018). And despite emphasizing that policy entrepreneurs build coalitions and leverage network connections to achieve their goals (Frisch Aviram et al, 2020;Arnold, 2020;Mintrom & Norman, 2009), policy entrepreneurship scholars rarely conceptualize PEs as leaders of social movements.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship

Arnold

2021

Policy Sci

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We know relatively little about the conditions that encourage people to jump into the political fray as policy entrepreneurs, advocates who devote substantial time, energy, and resources to campaigning for a policy goal. This paper aims to fill that gap by investigating the catalysts of policy entrepreneurship in municipalities across the State of New York, where between 2008 and 2012, hundreds of local jurisdictions passed measures opposing or supporting high-volume hydraulic fracturing (fracking). These local policy actions were often enthusiastically encouraged and, in some cases, vociferously opposed, by enterprising advocates. I propose a threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship, emphasizing the role of loss aversion in pushing actors toward advocacy. The empirical analysis shows that oppositional advocacy within a polity draws would-be policy entrepreneurs into battle.

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confidence: 99%

A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship

Arnold

2021

Policy Sci

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“…Storytelling and personal narrative are imperative for sharing and organizing within and outside the classroom (Ganz & McKenna, 2018). Using Ganz's public narrative model from the theory of change, an instructor could help students situate themselves in the social issues they want to help alleviate.…”

Section: Public Narratives Civic Participation and Social Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is a discursive process through which individuals, communities, and nations learn to make choices, construct identity, and inspire actions. Public narrative engages the "head" and the "heart," so it can instruct and inspire--it not only teaches people why they should act but also motivates them to act (Ganz & McKenna, 2018). Public narrative is a leadership practice of using personal values to galvanize others into action through storytelling (Ganz, 2010).…”

Section: Public Narratives Civic Participation and Social Actionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Teaching Social Justice and Engaging Gen Z Students in Digital Classrooms During COVID-19

Wei

Powell

Jenkins

et al. 2021

JoSoTL

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The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 disrupted the lives of people on all fronts, but especially the traditional education system. Now dependent on online learning during a global pandemic, political unrest, and a contentious presidential election, many school educators were forced to transition to virtual instruction amid the ongoing health crises posed by COVID-19 and the ever-present issue of racism. We gathered and analyzed the teaching experiences of instructors at an historically Black college or university as they addressed social justice issues during the COVID-19 pandemic. The majority of college-age students today are from Generation Z (Gen Z), the “digital native” generation. They are living in a time in which recent social justice movements have called them to the frontlines. To teach Gen-Z students, faculty should create courses that fit their needs and consider innovative teaching strategies to engage them in classrooms. We discuss three classroom activities that showcase instructors’ pedagogical efforts during such unprecedented times.

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“…The concept of strategic actors refers to the fact that social movement strategies are usually formulated and driven by a group of core actors who cannot control the social movement in a strict sense (Scharpf, 1997) but who have specific resources, such as finances, an organizational base, experience, knowledge, and networks, to significantly shape the movement's strategy (Edwards, McCarthy, & Mataic, 2019). It is the strategic actors who take the lead in formulating and implementing strategic orientations within given strategic contexts (Ganz & McKenna, 2019;Morris & Staggenborg, 2004). To this end, they ensure the provision and maintenance of strategic capacity by building organizational structures and mobilizing resources and social support (Raschke & Tils, 2013).…”

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New Climate Activism between Politics and Law: Analyzing the Strategy of the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

Keller¹,

Bornemann

2021

PaG

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Since 2016, a group of senior women organized in the association KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz have been trying to legally force the Swiss government to take stronger climate protection measures. Parallel to the pursuit of a climate lawsuit, the KlimaSeniorinnen have developed into a growing social movement that is present in the media and participates in the public debate on climate change. Building on this specific climate litigation case, the present article analyzes the strategy formation of new actors in the field of climate governance. Based on existing concepts of social movement research, the strategy formation of the KlimaSeniorinnen is reconstructed in terms of a strategic actor who pursues certain strategic orientations in given strategic contexts. The empirical analysis of the strategic context (by means of opportunity structures), the strategic orientations (via collective action frames), and the strategic actor (by means of interviews) shows a double strategy. On the one hand, the KlimaSeniorinnen attempt to address a specific legal opportunity structure with an ‘injustice frame,’ which emphasizes human rights and the special vulnerability of older women to intense heat waves. On the other hand, they want to mobilize public support for an ambitious climate policy by additionally promoting a ‘grandchildren frame,’ which articulates altruistic values, such as responsibility towards future generations. Based on this analysis, both practical implications and consequences for future research on a new climate politics, which is increasingly taking shape between and across different arenas, are discussed.

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Bringing Leadership Back In

Cited by 46 publications

References 86 publications

A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship

A threat-centered theory of policy entrepreneurship

Teaching Social Justice and Engaging Gen Z Students in Digital Classrooms During COVID-19

New Climate Activism between Politics and Law: Analyzing the Strategy of the KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz

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