How Social Movement Coalitions Matter: Lessons from the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Recent scholarship has made great strides in investigating the conditions that facilitate the mobilization and maintenance of social movement coalitions, or alliances of social movement organizations that join forces to achieve some common goal. Far less attention has been paid to the effectiveness of these organizational collaborations. This paper begins to address this lacuna in this paper by developing a typology of social movement coalitions based on their inclusivity and coordination capacity, and illustrating some of its distinctions with a case study of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights’ development during the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on evidence from four archival collections, I document several changes to the Leadership Conference’s organizational structure and operational procedures that were implemented in 1963 and show how these changes contributed to the achievement of strong civil rights legislation during the mid-1960s.
Strategic Alliances: Coalition Building and Social Movements
Contents Preface Introduction: Social Movement Coalition Formation Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon Part I. Social Ties and the Development of Movement Coalitions 1. The Prehistory of a Coalition: The Role of Social Ties in Win Without War Catherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer 2. Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions against Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Cities Larry Isaac 3. Interstate Dynamics and Transnational Social Movement Coalitions: A Comparison of Northeast and Southeast Asia Dawn Wiest Part II. Movement Ideology and Coalition Formation 4. Approaching Merger: The Converging Public Policy Agendas of the AFL and CIO, 1938-1955 Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon 5. "Organizing One's Own" as Good Politics: Second Wave Feminists and the Meaning of Coalition Benita Roth 6. The Strength of Weak Coalitions: Transregional Feminist Coalitions in Eastern Germany Katja M. Guenther Part III. Broad Political Influences on Social Movement Coalitions 7. Organizing across Ethnic Boundaries in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Asian American Panethnic Coalitions Dina G. Okamoto 8. Social Movement Partyism: Collective Action and Oppositional Political Parties in Latin America Paul Almeida 9. Political Opportunity and Social Movement Coalitions: The Role of Policy Segmentation and Nonprofit Tax Law Brian Obach 10. Sustained Interactions? Social Movements and Coalitions in Local Settings Mario Diani, Isobel Lindsay, and Derrick Purdue Part IV. Coalitions and Combinations of Causal Factors 11. Crisis as a Catalyst for Cooperation? Women's Organizing in Buenos Aires Elizabeth Borland 12. Sudden Mobilization: Movement Crossovers, Threats, and the Surprising Rise of the U.S. Antiwar Movement Ellen Reese, Christine Petit, and David S. Meyer 13. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Empirical Studies of Social Movement Coalition Formation Holly J. McCammon and Nella Van Dyke Conclusion: Research on Social Movement Coalitions Suzanne Staggenborg Contributors Index
Research requirements to reduce maintenance costs of civil helicopters
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