Routing the Opposition

Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy

By: David S. Meyer (Editor), Valerie Jenness (Editor), Helen Ingram (Editor)

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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.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction. Social Movements and Public Policy: Eggs, Chicken, and Theory	p. 1
Context Matters and Patterns of Influence: Agendas and Alliances	p. 27
Political Contexts, Challenger Strategies, and Mobilization: Explaining the Impact of the Townsend Plan	p. 29
Social Movements, the Rise of New Issues, and the Public Agenda	p. 65
Velcro Triangles: Elite Mobilization of Local Antidrug Issue Coalitions	p. 87
The Social Movement-State Nexus: The Structure and Consequences of Interpenetration	p. 117
Creating Credible Edibles: The Organic Agriculture Movement and the Emergence of U.S. Federal Organic Standards	p. 121
Inside and Outside the State: Movement Insider Status, Tactics, and Public Policy Achievements	p. 149
The Policy Nexus: Professional Networks and the Formulation and Adoption of Workers' Compensation Reforms	p. 177
The Nature of the Field: Impacts on Participation, Mobilization, and Identity	p. 207
Policy Feedback Effects for Collective Action: Lessons from Veterans' Programs	p. 211
Rights without Citizenship: Activist Politics and Prison Reform in the United States	p. 236
Policy Threats and Social Movement Coalitions: California's Campaign to Restore Legal Immigrants' Rights to Welfare	p. 259
Conclusion. Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy: Rethinking the Nexus	p. 288
Contributors	p. 307
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