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Antisuperstore Movement Outcomes

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

In Explaining the Outcomes of Antisuperstore Movements: A Comparative Analysis of Six Communities, Stephen Halebsky analyzes six communities that tried to keep Wal-Mart out of their town.  There are different variables that determine the outcome of a social movement: controlled variables and environmental variables (444). The author explains that studies show that social movements succeed [...]

The Bargaining Perspective

by Kate Calle on November 28, 2009

in Papers

Paul Burstein, Rachel Einwohner, and Jocelyn Hollander describe the use of the bargaining perspective to describe the success of social movement outcomes in the article The Success of Political Movements: A Bargaining Perspective.  Social movements use non-institutional tactics in order to bargain with elites since social movements do not have the resources to bargain with [...]