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 democracy......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