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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Luders, Joseph. "Social Movements and Political Success: Civil Rights Outcomes in Public School Desegregation and Voting Rights" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL, Apr 12, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p196628_index.html>

Luders, J. E. , 2007-04-12 "Social Movements and Political Success: Civil Rights Outcomes in Public School Desegregation and Voting Rights" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hotel, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p196628_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Under what conditions do social movements succeed in winning concessions from political actors? Surprisingly, social movement theory has largely neglected studies of legislative politics and interest organizations. In this paper, I combine these bodies of research from political science with the sociological literature on social movement outcome. This analysis begins with the assumption that elected officials are mainly concerned with their reelection and their cost perceptions based upon calculations of electoral advantage. Organized interests and social movements matter to elected officials insofar as they control votes, campaign contributions, volunteers, or other electorally useful resources. By threatening elected officials to withhold or shift their electoral support to an opponent, movements can impose disruption costs upon their political targets. Weighed against these disruption costs, public officials estimate the costs of acceding to movement demands as well. The electoral costs of allocating new benefit-seekers depends upon mass preferences and, in particular, public attentiveness. If mass publics are attentive and opposed to movement demands, then success is unlikely as elected officials conform to the preferences of the median voter. By contrast, if mass publics are inattentive, indifferent, and likely to remain so, movements are expected to bargain with elected officials for the provision of new benefits. For elected officials, then, it is useful to distinguish between those public policies that are likely to be salient for their constituents from those that will be less so. From this rudimentary starting point, I devise a set of hypotheses about the responsiveness of political targets to social movement demands. I evaluate the merits of this approach in an analysis of the civil rights movements in two areas: public schools desegregation and voter registration in the 1960s. I suggest that variation in degrees of success in these two domains depended upon the public attentiveness to the costs of movement demands and the strength of key electoral constituencies.

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