Strategic capacity in the context of the European multilevel polity: post-accession environmental protest in the Czech Republic

Císař, Ondřej; Navrátil, Jiří

doi:10.1080/09644016.2022.2060666

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“…Therefore, our focus on the ReSt's strategies and our use of process tracing to map those manoeuvres will contribute to the still limited literature that deals with the political actors and their capacities, since the research area is still more attentive to the structural conditions of activism (Císař & Navrátil, 2022). We are presenting innovative strategies, campaigns and tactics that ReSt used or, on the other hand, those that were intentionally abandoned.…”

Section: Political Opportunitiesmentioning

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Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

Mazák,

Němcová

2024

Czech Sociological Review

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In the period from 2013 to 2017, the Czech Parliament passed five bills against corruption. A civil initiative called Reconstruction of the State was heavily involved in the process. Before the 2013 elections, the initiative prompted the candidates running for an MP mandate to publicly commit to supporting selected legislation proposals. The initiative used a variety of advocacy and campaign tactics to support passing the bills after the elections. This paper uses process tracing to answer the following research questions:(1) What path led to this success?, (2) Is there sufficient evidence about the actual role of the initiative in seeing the proposals passed by the Parliament? and (3) What has determined the initiative's advocacy decisions? The first research question is treated descriptively, focusing on the key milestones in this historically unique advocacy campaign. To answer the second question, we conducted a non-formal counterfactual assessment of whether the absence of the initiative would have resulted in passing fewer proposals. This is important for evaluating civil society's potential to effectively influence the political process. Finally, in answering the third question, we show that advocacy tactics have markedly changed throughout the Reconstruction of the State campaign. Building on this observation, we argue that tactics are not only policy-or campaign-specific but also change within a single case.

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Section: Political Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

Mazák,

Němcová

2024

Czech Sociological Review

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Understanding diversification of strategies and tactics in Swedish mining resistance: the fanning-out effect of goals and contextual opportunities

Fjellborg

2024

Theor Soc

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Europe is witnessing increasing protests against mining. Social movements mobilizing against resource extraction projects, (i.e. anti-extraction movements) are typically heterogeneous actor networks using diverse tactics to stop projects and promote other forms of societal development. I investigate two prominent anti-extraction movements in Sweden and explore how movement actors’ goals and interpretations of contextual opportunities shape their strategies and tactics. I study tactics over eleven years and use frame analysis to explore actors’ goals, interpretations, and strategies. Results show how diverse goals lead to diversification of tactics in movements by prompting movement actors to relate to different policy areas, that is, issue-specific contexts. Furthermore, actors’ experiences of interacting in different issue-specific contexts created differences in actors’ retrospective reasoning, which reinforced variation in tactics by informing interpretations of contextual opportunities. The study contributes to social movement theory by explicating how the content of goals shape interpretations of contextual opportunities and by extension diversify movement actors’ strategies and tactics. This adds to the understanding of how socio-political context influence tactical choices in concert with other explanations such as action traditions, diffusion, and available resources. Understanding diversification of movement tactics is important for handling increasingly complex conflicts over natural resources.

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Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Fagan

Buzogány

2022

Environmental Politics

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Strategic capacity in the context of the European multilevel polity: post-accession environmental protest in the Czech Republic

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

Manoeuvring towards Success: Reconstruction of the State and Its Effective Campaign Countering Corruption and State Capture

Understanding diversification of strategies and tactics in Swedish mining resistance: the fanning-out effect of goals and contextual opportunities

Beyond Europeanization: political ecology and environmentalism in Central and Eastern Europe

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