The Diffusion of Social Movements Actors, Mechanisms, and Political Effects

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 11
Contributors......Page 13
Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 17
What is being diffused? the alignment of repertoires, frames, and contexts......Page 19
How does diffusion occur? relational and nonrelational mechanisms of diffusion......Page 23
What is the impact of diffusion?......Page 29
Layout of this book......Page 30
Part I Diffusion and the Framing of Contentious Politics......Page 33
2 Transnational Networks and Institutions......Page 35
Horizontal and vertical diffusion......Page 36
The role of framing in multilevel dynamics......Page 37
Cases and data......Page 38
Social movement dynamics: diffusion at the grassroots level......Page 39
Transnational diffusion from the united states to europe......Page 40
Reception......Page 41
Recontextualizing the american frame......Page 42
Politicizing sexual harassment: challenging the institutional level......Page 43
Theorization: creating a european sexual harassment frame......Page 45
Certification by the European Commission......Page 46
Scaling down to the national level......Page 47
Conclusions......Page 48
Theoretical issues and focal questions......Page 50
The creation science and evolutionary science debate......Page 52
Data sources and procedures......Page 55
Diagnostic Frames......Page 57
Prognostic Frames......Page 62
Conclusions and implications......Page 69
Introduction......Page 72
The Wagner Act’s Economic Foundation......Page 73
Judicial Retreats......Page 75
Two Communities Converge......Page 77
Labor’s Human Rights Initiatives......Page 78
Rights Groups Enter Labor Discourse......Page 79
Trade Union Human Rights Reports......Page 81
Using International Instruments......Page 83
Rights versus Solidarity......Page 86
The Rights Case......Page 87
The Employee Free Choice Act – What Is It?......Page 88
Unions Flinch on Human Rights......Page 89
Management Takes Up Rights......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 92
Contentious knowledge claims: miracle seeds and suicide seeds......Page 94
Master framing: the peculiar case of the gmo......Page 95
Food, risk, and utility in europe......Page 99
Epistemic brokerage and diffusion: mutual dependence in networks......Page 102
Advocacy Network Characteristics and Knowledge Flow......Page 108
International Coalition Dynamics......Page 109
The gmo as generative frame......Page 110
Part II mechanisms of diffusion......Page 113
6 Dialogue Matters......Page 115
Alternative Pathways of Transnational Diffusion......Page 116
The significance of dialogue for transnational diffusion......Page 119
Applying the dialogical framework of transnational diffusion to the indian independence movement and the u.s. civil rights movement......Page 124
Initial awareness of the gandhian repertoire: over-likeness and hyper-difference......Page 126
Intellectual translation of the gandhian repertoire: dislocation from india......Page 128
Practical experimentation with the gandhian repertoire: relocation in the united states......Page 130
Movement application: integration of the gandhian repertoire......Page 133
Conclusions......Page 138
7 The Diffusion of Different Types of Internet Activism......Page 141
Defining internet activism......Page 142
Diffusion processes......Page 144
Overview of data collection methods......Page 145
Content-coding of websites and tactics......Page 146
Findings......Page 147
Discussion......Page 152
Conclusion......Page 154
Electoral change and diffusion dynamics1......Page 156
Debating diffusion......Page 158
Assessing diffusion......Page 159
Defining diffusion and its mechanisms......Page 160
Competing explanations......Page 161
The electoral wave......Page 162
Patterns of diffusion......Page 165
The benefits of the electoral model......Page 167
Similar conditions......Page 169
Subjective similarities......Page 170
Self-interest......Page 171
American orchestration?......Page 172
Transnational networks......Page 174
Conclusions......Page 177
9 Diffusing the Rumor Bomb......Page 179
Diffusion and Convergence Culture......Page 180
The Rumor Bomb......Page 181
“F” the French2: On the Construction of l’Americainicité......Page 184
Origins and circulation of the french kerry rumor bomb......Page 187
Method......Page 188
Findings on the french kerry rumor......Page 189
Family Connections......Page 190
French Public Opinion......Page 191
Miscellaneous: Foreign Policy Puppet of France and Gay......Page 192
Internet and Rumor Convergence......Page 194
Conclusion: diffusing rumor bombs, (un)accountability, and spectacular\ndemocracy......Page 195
Part III Diffusion, Scale Shift, and Organizational Change......Page 201
10 From Protest to Organization......Page 203
Theoretical expectations......Page 204
Historical context......Page 206
Data......Page 209
Results......Page 212
Conclusion......Page 215
11 Dynamics of Diffusion......Page 220
Solidarity from the lenin shipyard to post-leninist state......Page 221
Mechanisms of diffusion: a tillian perspective......Page 223
Why mechanisms matter......Page 227
Institutions and Interactive Diffusion......Page 228
Scale Shift......Page 230
Conclusions......Page 234
General Bibliography......Page 237
Index......Page 267