The political process model was introduced Doug McAdam to explain social movement emergence. He continues with his theory to explain social movement decline due to the same factors of social movement emergence. According to Mc Adam, social movements occur when incentives occur to mobilize collective action. McAdam believes that social movements are a political phenomenon [...]
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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 [...]
Verta Taylor uses the continuity of the women’s movement from the 1940s to the 1960s in the Unites States to explain social movement abeyance in the article Social Movement Continuity: The Women’s Movement in Abeyance. According to the author, “The term ‘abeyance’ depicts a holding process by which movements sustain themselves in nonreceptive political environments [...]
In Culture, Power, and Institutions: A Multi-Institutional Politics Approach to Social Movements Elizabeth Armstrong and Mary Bernstein build a new approach to social movements called mulit-institutional politics. They critique the political process model for assuming that there is one source of power and state that society is made up of both culture, identity, and structure [...]
The Application of the Political Process Model to Explain of the American Civil Rights Movement
by Kate Calle on September 7, 2009
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In Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Doug McAdam argues the flaws of the resource mobilization model and the classical model in the explanation of social movements. He then presents a new model, the Political Process Model, and uses it to explain the rise and fall of the civil rights movement [...]
