How Social Movements Matter

Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Preface......Page 12
Introduction: How Social Movements Matter: Past Research, Present Problems, Future Developments......Page 14
Part I: Types of Consequences......Page 36
1. Social Movements and Public Policy......Page 38
2. Making an Impact: Conceptual and Methodological Implications of the Collective Goods Criterion......Page 57
3. The Impact of Social Movements on Political Institutions: A Comparison of the Introduction of Direct Legislation in Switzerland and the United States......Page 77
4. Protest, Protesters, and Protest Policing: Public Discourses in Italy and Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s......Page 101
5. Political Protest and Institutional Change: The Anti–Vietnam War Movement and American Science......Page 132
6. The Biographical Impact of Activism......Page 152
Part II: Comparative Perspectives......Page 182
7. Feminist Politics in a Hostile Environment: Obstacles and Opportunities......Page 184
8. How the Cold War Was Really Won: The Effects of the Antinuclear Movements of the 1980s......Page 217
9. The Impact of Environmental Movements in Western Societies......Page 239
10. Ethnic and Civic Conceptions of Nationhood and the Differential Success of the Extreme Right in Cermany and Italy......Page 260
Conclusion: From Interactions to Outcomes in Social Movements......Page 288
Bibliography......Page 306
Contributors......Page 338
A......Page 342
C......Page 343
D......Page 345
E......Page 346
F......Page 347
G......Page 348
I......Page 349
L......Page 350
M......Page 351
N......Page 352
O......Page 353
P......Page 354
R......Page 355
S......Page 356
W......Page 358
Z......Page 359