The Role of Social Movements in the Macro Political System

Kelly, Nathan J.; Petrow, Gregory A.; Soule, Sarah A.

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“…Several studies examined how one particular movement type is affected by the presence of political allies. The occurrence of protest events has been compared across countries (Dalton et al 2003), across states and counties (van Dyke 2003), across time within one country (Kelly, Petrow, and Soule 2010; Meyer and Minkoff 2004), or across countries and time (Kriesi et al 1992). Research findings substantiate that having political allies influences protest but the direction of influence has been found to run both ways (van Dyke 2003; see also Goldstone, 2004).…”

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“…Research findings substantiate that having political allies influences protest but the direction of influence has been found to run both ways (van Dyke 2003; see also Goldstone, 2004). Having political allies at the national level stimulates protest activity for environmental movements across the globe (Dalton et al 2003), for the American Civil Rights movement (Meyer and Minkoff, 2004) while it dampens liberal protest (Kelly et al 2010) as well as student protest in the United States and new social movement protest in Western Europe (Kriesi et al 1992).…”

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Friends in High Places

Troost¹,

Klandermans²,

Stekelenburg³

2018

Humanity & Society

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Scholars working from the political opportunity approach have upheld the notion that the political context sets the grievances around which activist mobilizes. Inspired by Tarrow and colleagues plea to explain political activism by analyzing how activists are mobilized, this article focuses on the individual protester. The research question in this article reads how are activist’s protest emotions shaped by characteristics of the political context, specifically by their political alliances? We focus on the emotional constellation evoked by environmental issues (e.g., climate change and nuclear energy) with Green Parties as movement allies and anti-austerity issues with Social Democratic parties as movement allies. Specifically, the parliamentary position of these allies is linked to the relative stake anger and frustration have within the emotional constellation of demonstrators. Results are based on survey data collected among 6,598 demonstrators, and their emotions dispersed over 28 demonstrations in seven European countries. We conclude that having a politically well-connected friend seems to matter more to demonstrators’ emotional constellation than the ideological support provided by that friend.

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