US Environmental interest groups and the promotion of environmental values: The resounding success and failure of earth day

Fried, Amy

doi:10.1080/09644019808414420

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“…A large number of studies utilize surveys to better understand the role of interest groups in the policy process (Hoefer, 1996;Cox and Vass, 2000;Dalton et al, 2003;Heaney, 2006;Fried, 2007;Reenock and Gerber, 2007;Hall and Miler, 2008;McKay, 2012) including the role groups play in shaping legislative behavior (Wright, 1990), and the influence of interest groups generally (Binderkrantz, 2005;Chalmers, 2011;Klüver, 2012a) or within particular policy areas (Goldsmith, 2002). Several studies use surveys to shed light onto how variations in institutional structure affect organizational behavior (Eising, 2004;Reenock and Gerber, 2007;Tsujinaka and Pekkanen, 2007;Klüver, 2010;Constantelos, 2011;Pleines, 2011) and to better understand groups' relationships and interactions with bureaucratic institutions, political decision-makers or governmental bodies (Braun, 2012a, b;Klüver, 2012b;The LSE GV314 Group, 2012;Rasmussen, 2012;Chalmers, 2013).…”

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The use of surveys in interest group research

Marchetti

2015

Int Groups Adv

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Scholars utilize a variety of research methods in studies of interest group formation, presence and influence. From aggregate counts of interest group populations to in-depth participant observation, scholars have used a variety of methods in studies of interest groups' role(s) in the policy process. The application of survey research has proven to be a successful method for obtaining group-specific information across a variety of group types and settings. Though organizational sampling and methods of survey dissemination can differ dramatically across studies, the subfield lacks a comprehensive review of the use of surveys within interest group research. This paucity leaves unanswered several questions regarding the frequency and efficacy of survey research within the subfield. What types of questions have been answered via surveys of organizations? What benefits are provided by this methodological approach? What challenges emerge when surveying interest groups and how have scholars overcome these obstacles? These questions are pertinent to scholars of interest groups and survey researchers alike, and this review provides guidance for the construction and dissemination of future interest group surveys.Scholars utilize an extensive array of research methods in the exploration of interest group formation, presence and influence. From aggregate counts of interest group populations to in-depth participant observation, the question of how interest groups function in the policy process has been, and continues to be, explored from myriad angles. Of these many approaches, survey research has proven to be one successful method for obtaining group-specific information across a variety of organizational types and settings. Though organizational sampling and methods of survey dissemination can differ dramatically across studies, the subfield lacks a comprehensive review of the use of surveys within interest group research. This review 1 provides information about the use of surveys in studies of interest groups with a focus on research questions that have been answered via survey methods, the unique challenge of identifying

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The use of surveys in interest group research

Marchetti

2015

Int Groups Adv

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“…Thus tabulations of tactics, events, media cycles dominated, leadership, mobilization, resources, and frames help determine success (Mooney ). Social movement and environmental theorists who study rural, agricultural, and environmental problems struggle with whether movements, tactics, communities, events, or actions have succeeded (Boehmer‐Christiansen ; Bryner ; Dessai ; Fried ; Hale ; Walter ). The success of the German Green Party is measured purely in electoral gains (Rüdig ).…”

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The Perennial Nature of the Catholic Worker Farms: A Reconsideration of Failure

Stock

2013

Rural Sociology

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Contemporary challenges in rural and environmental politics hinge on understanding what success and failure mean. One avenue of studying success and failure of political and social change efforts is to study social movements and intentional communities often equated with how many years such efforts persisted. The Catholic Worker movement's combination of a vision of radical social change, religion, nonviolence, hospitality, activism, and agrarianism involve publications, urban houses, and farms that constitute a movement and a network of autonomous intentional communities. The Catholic Worker movement's communal farms began in 1933 and at various points those efforts were deemed failures. Thus, the story of the Catholic Worker farms is one of impermanence and struggle for a desired ideal. However, what we are missing in condemning the farms to failure is the utter success since the 1970s of a strong agrarian and environmental strain of the Catholic Worker movement based on farm activity, activism, and cooperative economics. This study reconceptualizes failure in the language of process and context. The Catholic Worker farms case study refigures failure such that we can articulate a politics of possibility related to the dramatic challenges not only of society but also of the environment.

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“…The activist‐oriented legacy of Earth Day 1970 as the initiator of environmental concern is indicated by the significance it is accorded by political and education leaders and academics. Fried (1998) suggests that the occurrence of annual Earth Day celebrations qualifies it as a national holiday. Presidents, even critics of environmental policy such as President George W. Bush (Bosso, 2005,p.…”

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“…Certainly Nelson and other policy entrepreneurs welcomed the faster pace associated with Earth Day, although Jones (1974) points out that there is no guarantee that it results in better public policy. Additionally, the legacy of Earth Day 1970 has left the environmental movement in the dubious position of having a large victory, yet not being able to capitalize on it (Fried, 1998; Guber, 2003, pp. 180–183).…”

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Earth Day and Its Precursors: Continuity and Change in the Evolution of Midtwentieth‐Century U.S. Environmental Policy

Webber

2008

Review of Policy Research

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Earth Day 1970's legacy overshadows two earlier events resulting in popular misconceptions about U.S. environmental politics: that environmental policy began with Earth Day and that Congress and the president were not concerned with the environment until public opinion and interest groups pressured them. These misconceptions increase public opinion ambivalence and frustrate environmental leaders. This paper describes Earth Day 1970, the congressionally established Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission established in 1958, and President Kennedy's Natural Resources Tour of September 1963, arguing the latter two prepared for the convergence of multiple streams of policy change that resulted in the first Earth Day. Copyright 2008 by The Policy Studies Organization.

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US Environmental interest groups and the promotion of environmental values: The resounding success and failure of earth day

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

The use of surveys in interest group research

The use of surveys in interest group research

The Perennial Nature of the Catholic Worker Farms: A Reconsideration of Failure

Earth Day and Its Precursors: Continuity and Change in the Evolution of Midtwentieth‐Century U.S. Environmental Policy

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