scholarly journals The Impact of Social Movements on Taiwan's Democracy

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Philion
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

This article discusses and critiques the four articles that comprise this volume on Taiwan's social movement and democratization. I argue that the four articles suggest that while Taiwan's social movements have made a clear impact on Taiwan's democratization, they remain challenged by the neo-liberal orientation of elected governments, in both KMT and DPP forms. The article provides brief comparison to East Asian NICs and Western experiences with social movements. A strength of the articles is their attention to the complex ways social movements and democratization have impacted each other for the past two decades, with attention to unintended consequences. It concludes with some thoughts on the implications of how nationalism and globalization will continue to shape the potential of social movements in Taiwan.

scholarly journals Impact of Social Media Visuals on People’s Visual Communication during Social Movements in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
MD Saiful Alam Chowdhury ◽  
Monira Begum ◽  
Shaolin Shaon
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Visual Communication ◽  
Online News ◽  
Substantial Role ◽  
The Past ◽  
Popular View ◽  
The Impact

The past decade has seen an armorial growth of the influence of social media on many aspects of people’s lives. Social networking sites, especially Facebook, play a substantial role in framing popular view through its contents. This article explores the impact of visuals, especially photos and videos, published in social media during social movements. Importantly that some visuals received attention in social media during agitations which later got featured or become news in print, electronic and online news portal media as well. Some of the visuals later proved to be edited or fabricated contents which created confusion among participants in this research and beyond. The confusion has contributed to the acceleration or shrinkage of the movement in question in many cases. The center of this article is to examine how social media visuals influence people’s visual communication during social movements. Additionally, it digs out the user’s activity on social media during movements.

Social Movements and Equality Seeking: The Case of Gay Liberation in Canada

1998 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 285-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Gay Rights ◽  
Gay Liberation ◽  
Canadian Charter ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Lesbian And Gay Rights ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Gay Liberation Movement

AbstractThis article examines the impact of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms on social movement politics in Canada using the case of the gay liberation movement. Drawing on the comparative social movement literature, the article situates equality seeking as a strategy and meaning game that legitimates new political identities and that is aimed at mobilizing a movement's constituency. The article demonstrates that equality seeking was a strategy and a meaning frame that was deployed in the lesbian and gay rights movement (exemplified by the gay liberation movement of the 1970s) prior to the entrenchment of the Charter. Thus, it concludes that some claims about the Charter's impact on social movement organizing have been exaggerated.

Social Movements and Constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (S1) ◽  
pp. S51-S75
Author(s):  
Ngoc Son BUI
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Constitutional Change ◽  
Positive Account ◽  
Comparative Constitutional Law ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Full Consideration

AbstractThis article considers whether the academic inquiry of comparative constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan may be further developed by a full consideration of the relevance of social movements. Integrating social movement theories into comparative constitutional law, this article argues that a more nuanced positive account of the creation and consolidation of constitutionalism in these East Asian polities must be situated within the engagement of social movements in discursive venues for formal and informal constitutional change.

scholarly journals Weather Effects on Social Movements: Evidence from Washington, D.C., and New York City, 1960–95

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Huiquan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
York City ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Scholars have been taking the impact of weather on social movements for granted for some time, despite a lack of supporting empirical evidence. This paper takes the topic more seriously, analyzing more than 7000 social movement events and 36 years of weather records in Washington, D.C., and New York City (1960–95). Here, “good weather” is defined as midrange temperature and little to no precipitation. This paper uses negative binomial regression models to predict the number of social movements per day and finds social movements are more likely to happen on good days than bad, with seasonal patterns controlled for. Results from logistic regression models indicate violence occurs more frequently at social movement events when it is warmer. Most interestingly, the effect of weather is more salient when there are more political opportunities and resources available. This paper discusses the implications and suggests future research on weather and social movement studies.

scholarly journals The Study of the Consequences of Armed Groups: Lessons from the Social Movement Literature

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Bosi ◽  
Marco Giugni
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Armed Groups ◽  
The Social ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Despite the development of the political violence and terrorism literature, which has moved strongly forward in the past decade, scientific works on the consequences of armed groups are still rare. This article encourages cross-fertilization between the sparse studies of the consequences of political violence and the growing body of research on how social movements matter. First, we show the variety of potential outcomes of armed groups' violent repertoires. We then review works on the consequences of social movements and highlight lessons for the study of armed groups. Specifically, we urge scholars to look for the interplay of internal and external factors in studying the impact of armed groups. We call for a comparative focus that dwells less on conditions and more on the processes and mechanisms affecting the impact of political violence. At the same time, we acknowledge that the literature on political violence and terrorism can inform social movement scholarship. In particular, students of social movements should pay more attention to the potential economic consequences of protest activities, the international factors constraining their impact, and the life-course patterns of movements' targets.

Campaign for development, social movement and revolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
A.S. Adeniran
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Social movement and revolution are tools used to shape social changes. Social movement aims to advance a group’s agenda either by rectifying cultural drifts, social disorganizations and social injustice but revolution aims to unseat the government or to transform the entire political order. Based on archival evidence, this article examines the impact of social movement on the manifestations and modifications of specific socio-cultural policies of democratic governments in Nigeria. Though there are commonalities and differentials between social movements and revolutions, there is a strong linkage between the two concepts. Social movement is largely an event on a micro-level while revolution is on a macro-level. Social movement engages limited violence and often resorts to thoughtful persuasion, but revolution enlists unlimited violence that manifests in gritty coercion. However, recently in Nigeria, a number of online social movements have developed and they strive to give voice to the voiceless in the socio-political structure, as well as gaining recognition online and offline, so as to promote social development within the polity. Karl Marx upholds that conflict is inevitable in the social structure yet it can be concluded that most of the fundamental developments in human history, such as national independence, democracy, social justice, social inclusion and civil/human rights have been won on the platform of social movement. There are hierarchical or stratified social relations in the society which breeds social struggle within the class systems. Unequivocally, social movements are bound to arise wherever social conditions are unfavorable. Key words: socio-cultural, social movement, revolution, development

Social Media and Fake News Impact on Social Movements

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-56
Author(s):  
Heather C. Webb ◽  
Manal Emam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Impact

Social media has become the favored digital communication channel and offers many advantages, such as spreading information faster than conventional media. However, social media's disadvantages have been the increase in fake news driven mainly by the growing digitalization of information and the increase of deepfakes. Nowadays, fake news has a new scope beyond traditional, cold war-style disinformation because of its unprecedented capacity to mobilize an assortment of news and media simultaneously. The impact of social media and fake news so dramatically impacted social movements in both Tunisia and Egypt that it is often characterized as the first social media-influenced social movement. These movements became known as the Arab Spring, which was mainly in response to oppressive regimes and low standard of living. This chapter focuses on the lead-up and impact of social media, and online-activists that influenced the Arab Spring. The authors use a narrative and exploratory research approach to conceptually understand digital communication's role and impact throughout the Arab Spring.

What happens to social movements after policy success? Framing the unintended consequences and changing dynamics of the Korean women’s movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doowon Suh
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Policy Success ◽  
Movement Dynamics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Personal Assessment

Since the late 1990s, the consequences of collective action have been subject to an expanded scholarly inquiry. In particular, a growing body of analysis has elaborated on the impact of social movements on policy, coupled with studies dealing with structural, organizational, and biographical changes. On the whole, however, the literature continues to under-recognize how unintended consequences affect the way social movements function. In order to illustrate the unanticipated yet profound impact of unintended consequences on movement dynamics, I examine the Korean women’s movement as a case study. My analysis focuses on establishing the following three propositions. First, unintended results motivate movement participants to react promptly; this leads them to voluntarily or involuntarily alter their organizational infrastructures, thereby effecting changes in movement dynamics. Second, the impact of unintended consequences is transmitted to movement participants through the process of framing; it is one’s personal assessment rather than a detached appraisal of collective action outcomes that influences movement dynamics. Third, a negative evaluation of the unintended consequences may generate an impetus for reinvigorating collective action.

scholarly journals Event-making the past: Commemorations as social movement catalysts

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-501
Author(s):  
Christina Jerne
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Cognitive Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Way

While shared narratives of the past have long been considered functional in terms of legitimising, coordinating and directing movement imaginary and action, it is not until recently that studies of memory and social movements have begun to interact systematically. Furthermore, these studies have treated mnemonic practices from a cognitive perspective rather than an affective, relational stance. This article analyses the mass commemoration of mafia victims that took place in Bologna on 21 March 2015 using an affective lens. It shifts the focus from memory as an identity-shaping, community-building force to memory as a mobilising force that intensifies and fuels heterogeneous and multidirectional movements such as the anti-mafia. In particular, it highlights the suggestive force of objects, discourses and bodies that together catalyse the crowd, drawing from ethnographic material. It concludes that what is ritualised, and thus important for the movement’s direction, is the way the past is presented and lived through the event. It suggests that the study of social movements and memory can benefit from the affective turn in memory studies.

scholarly journals The Impact of Medicare's Alternative Payment Models on the Value of Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 551-565
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Liao ◽  
Amol S. Navathe ◽  
Rachel M. Werner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
National Health ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
National Health Care ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Payment Models ◽  
Medicare Spending

Over the past decade, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have led the nationwide shift toward value-based payment. A major strategy for achieving this goal has been to implement alternative payment models (APMs) that encourage high-value care by holding providers financially accountable for both the quality and the costs of care. In particular, the CMS has implemented and scaled up two types of APMs: population-based models that emphasize accountability for overall quality and costs for defined patient populations, and episode-based payment models that emphasize accountability for quality and costs for discrete care. Both APM types have been associated with modest reductions in Medicare spending without apparent compromises in quality. However, concerns about the unintended consequences of these APMs remain, and more work is needed in several important areas. Nonetheless, both APM types represent steps to build on along the path toward a higher-value national health care system.

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