Routing the Opposition - Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy

Klappentext On one side are the policy makers! on the other! the movements and organizations that challenge public policy. Where and how the two meet is a critical juncture in the democratic process. Bringing together a distinguished group of scholars from several different disciplines in the social sciences! Routing the Opposition connects the substance and content of policies with the movements that create and respond to them. Local antidrug coalitions! the organic agriculture movement! worker's compensation reforms! veterans' programs! prison reform! immigrants' rights campaigns: these are some of the diverse areas in which the contributors to this volume examine the linkages between the practices! organization! and institutional logic of public policy and social movements. The authors engage such topics as the process of involving multiple stakeholders in policy making! the impact of overlapping social networks on policy and social movement development! and the influence of policy design on the increase or decline of civic involvement. Capturing both successes and failures! Routing the Opposition focuses on strategies and outcomes that both transform social movements and guide the development of public policy! revealing as well what happens when the very different organizational cultures of activists and public policy makers interact. Zusammenfassung Explores the crucial nexus of policy makers and social movements for the first time.

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• Authors: Helen M. Ingram, David S. Jenness Meyer, MEYER DAVID S JENNESS VALERIE I
• Assisted by: Ingram (Editor), Helen Ingram (Editor), Helen M. Ingram (Editor), Valerie Jenness (Editor), David S. Meyer (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2005
• EAN: 9780816644797
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-4479-7
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Social Movements, Protest and Contention; Social Movements, Protest, and; Social Movements, Protest & Contention S.; Social Movements, Protest and Contention; Social Movements, Protest & Contention S.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research