Protest and Opportunities: The Political Outcomes of Social Movements (Paperback)

1. Introduction Causal Mechanisms and Social Science Theory The Political Outcomes of Social Movements A Literature That Grows but Does Not Accumulate The Structure of the Book A Partial Theory of Social Movements and Political Change - Part I 2. Collective Goods, Public Policies, Political Institutions, and Political Change Can We Assess the Political Outcomes of Social Movements in Terms of Success? A Typology of Substantive Political Outcomes A Typology of Institutional Political Outcomes 3. Social Movement Strength, Tactics, and the Viability of Political Goals Social Movement Strength Strategy and Social Movement Outcomes 4. Opportunities and Constraints in the Environment of Social Movements The Political Context of Social Movements The Cultural and Economic Context of Social Movements 5. Causal Mechanisms of Political Change The Disruption Mechanism The Public Preference Mechanism The Political Access Mechanism The Judicial Mechanism The International Politics Mechanism The Civil Rights Movement - Part II 6. The Judicial Mechanism Constraint I: The Limited Nature of Rights Constraint II: The Lack of Judicial Independence Constraint III: The Judiciary's Lack of Powers of Implementation 7. The Disruption Mechanism Creating Crisis in the South: From Montgomery to Selma Creating Crisis in the North: The Ghetto Riots The Political Context of Disruption 8. The Public Preference Mechanism Mobilizing Public Opinion Explaining Public Opinion on Civil Rights Policies The Impact of Racial Attitudes on Civil Rights Policies 9. The Political Access Mechanism Mobilizing for Electoral Empowerment The Electoral Empowerment of African Americans The Political Impact of African American Electoral Empowerment 10. The International Politics Mechanism The Role of International Politics in the Struggle of the Civil Rights Movement The Effects of the Cold War on Civil Rights Explaining the Leverage of International Politics over the Executive Branch The Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement - Part III 11. The Context and Potential Political Impact of Anti-Nuclear Protest Operationalizing the Political Impact of the Anti-Nuclear Energy Movement Explanatory Hypotheses and the Measurement of Independent Variables 12. Explaining the Political Impact of Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements Anti-Nuclear Mobilization before the Chernobyl Accident The Political Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident on Nuclear Power 13. The Political Impact of Court Action, Mass Disruption, and Public Opinion The Judicial Mechanism The Disruption Mechanism The Public Preference Mechanism 14. Summary and Conclusions Social Movements and Political Change Insights from Studying the Civil Rights and the Anti-Nuclear Energy Movements