Social Protest and Policy Change Ecology, Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Comparative Perspective

by Giugni, Marco

• ISBN13: 9780742518261
• ISBN10: 0742518264
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

While movement activists spend much of their time and energy trying to change the world and we think that social movements often matter, our theoretical and empirical knowledge in this field is still relatively poor. Social Protest and Policy Change

Author Biography

Marco Giugni is a researcher and a teacher at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Geneva.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	ix
Preface	xv
Chapter 1 Introduction	1	(18)
Part I Historical Overview
Chapter 2 Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements	19	(18)
Chapter 3 A Brief History of Ecology Antinuclear, and Peace Movements in Three Countries	37	(40)
Chapter 4 Environmental, Nuclear Energy, and National Security Policy in Three Countries	77	(36)
Conclusion to Part I	113	(6)
Part II Time-Series Analysis
Chapter 5 Toward a Joint-Effect Model of Social Movement Outcomes	119	(28)
Chapter 6 Social Movement Organization	147	(20)
Chapter 7 Political Alliances	167	(22)
Chapter 8 Public Opinion	189	(26)
Conclusion to Part II	215	(10)
Chapter 9 Conclusion	225	(8)
Appendix A Data, Measurements, and Methods	233	(26)
Appendix B Results of Time-Series Analysis with Differenced Independent Variables	259	(10)
References	269	(18)
Index	287	(10)
About the Author	297