Social Movement Size, Organizational Diversity and the Making of Federal Law

From Pabst to Pepsi: The Deinstitutionalization of Social Practices and the Creation of Entrepreneurial Opportunities

“…Most studies examining the outcome of social movements have focused on legislative and policy changes (e.g., Amenta and Caren, 2004;Soule and King, 2006;Johnson, 2008), while the organizational mechanisms and changes entailed in implementing legislation and policy have been largely ignored. The few studies that have focused on movements' effects on organizations have been concerned primarily with intended changes such as the growth of the grass-fed beef market, the creation of insurance cooperatives, and the formation and survival of alternative energy producers (e.g., Weber, Heinze, and DeSoucey, 2008;Schneiberg, King, and Smith, 2008;Sine and Lee, 2009).…”

Disease Politics and Medical Research Funding

“…Researchers have looked for success in relation to a movement's stated goals (Burstein, Einwohner, and Hollander 1995;Gamson 1990) or achievement of "collective goods [for the] intended beneficiary group" (Amenta and Young 1999:40). Studies show that advocacy organizations can move issues up the agenda (Burstein 1991;Cobb and Elder 1983;Johnson 2008;King, Bentele, and Soule 2007) and influence policy content and passage (Andrews 2001;Baumgartner and Leech 1998;Skrentny 2006). However, not all studies show political outcomes for movements, leading to some controversy over the extent to which movements influence policy (Amenta et al 2010;Andrews and Edwards 2004;Baumgartner and Leech 1998).…”

The Media as a Dual Mediator of the Political Agenda–Setting Effect of Protest. A Longitudinal Study in Six Western European Countries

“…The following countries and periods are included in our analyses: the Netherlands (1995-2011), Spain (1996-2011, the United Kingdom (1997-2008), Switzerland (1995-2003), and France (1995. The countries are partly selected because of the availability of data-we mentioned that the absence of comparative work is mainly due to data limitations, and for this study we had to rely on a combination of existing data sources as well.…”

“…They found eleven such studies published from 1978 to 2010 in major sociology or political science journals (Burstein and Freudenberg 1978;Costain and Majstorovic 1994;Soule et al 1999;McAdam and Su 2002;Baumgartner and Mahoney 2005;King, Cornwall, and Dahlin 2005;Soule and King 2006;King, Bentele, and Soule 2007;Johnson 2008;Olzak and Soule 2009;Johnson, Agnone, and McCarthy 2010). Some of this work holds that protest is especially effective early on in the political cycle (King, Cornwall, and Dahlin 2005;Soule and King 2006) while others find that protest is a consequence of political attention rather than a cause (Soule et al 1999), but most of these studies show that protest, or social movement activity more generally, matters somehow for what issues political institutions devote attention to.…”