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Social Movements, Policy Initiatives and Political Outcomes at the U.S. State Level

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    The last forty years has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the populist phenomenon known as social movements as well as the launching of powerful counter-movements. Alongside this rise in movement growth, there have been vast policy changes. Understudied in the literature is a connection between these two phenomena. When do social movements decide to pressure governmental institutions for change? Under what conditions are social movements able to successful in their efforts?
In this paper, it is argued that a rational, strategic interaction framework should be used to study the policy outcomes of social movement-government interaction. Hypotheses are then developed for strategic interaction variables for explaining social movement-legislative outcomes. Further, social movement life-cycle theories (resource mobilization and political process) are reconsidered from a strategic interaction framework to derive additional hypotheses of outcomes of social movement-legislative interaction.

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Keywords: State Politics, Political Outcomes, Social Movements, State Legislatures, LGBT, Gay and Lesbian
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Stiles, Elizabeth. "Social Movements, Policy Initiatives and Political Outcomes at the U.S. State Level" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66045_index.html>

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Stiles, E. A. , 2002-08-28 "Social Movements, Policy Initiatives and Political Outcomes at the U.S. State Level" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66045_index.html

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Abstract:     The last forty years has witnessed a remarkable resurgence in the populist phenomenon known as social movements as well as the launching of powerful counter-movements. Alongside this rise in movement growth, there have been vast policy changes. Understudied in the literature is a connection between these two phenomena. When do social movements decide to pressure governmental institutions for change? Under what conditions are social movements able to successful in their efforts?
In this paper, it is argued that a rational, strategic interaction framework should be used to study the policy outcomes of social movement-government interaction. Hypotheses are then developed for strategic interaction variables for explaining social movement-legislative outcomes. Further, social movement life-cycle theories (resource mobilization and political process) are reconsidered from a strategic interaction framework to derive additional hypotheses of outcomes of social movement-legislative interaction.

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Social Movements Policy Initiatives and Political Outcomes at the U.S. State Level Elizabeth A. Stiles Ph.D. John Carroll University University Heights OH Submitted for Presentation to the Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association Boston MA August 28­September 1 2002. Special thanks to Beth Reingold of Emory University and Brian Henry Lai of the University of Iowa for their assistance in this project. Any errors are attributable only to the author. 2 Introduction The last forty years has
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