Chapter 4. The Protestant International and the Political Mobilization of Churches

2018 ◽  
pp. 94-116
Keyword(s):  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political

Before Reagan: The Development of Abortion’s Partisan Divide

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1031-1047
Author(s):  
Neil A. O’Brian
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Vote Choice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mass Public ◽  
Pro Life ◽  
Pro Choice

What explains the alignment of antiabortion positions within the Republican party? I explore this development among voters, activists, and elites before 1980. By 1970, antiabortion attitudes among ordinary voters correlated with conservative views on a range of noneconomic issues including civil rights, Vietnam, feminism and, by 1972, with Republican presidential vote choice. These attitudes predated the parties taking divergent abortion positions. I argue that because racial conservatives and military hawks entered the Republican coalition before abortion became politically activated, issue overlap among ordinary voters incentivized Republicans to oppose abortion rights once the issue gained salience. Likewise, because proabortion voters generally supported civil rights, once the GOP adopted a Southern strategy, this predisposed pro-choice groups to align with the Democratic party. A core argument is that preexisting public opinion enabled activist leaders to embed the anti (pro) abortion movement in a web of conservative (liberal) causes. A key finding is that the white evangelical laity’s support for conservative abortion policies preceded the political mobilization of evangelical leaders into the pro-life movement. I contend the pro-life movement’s alignment with conservatism and the Republican party was less contingent on elite bargaining, and more rooted in the mass public, than existing scholarship suggests.

Organizing for Access? The Political Mobilization of Turks in Amsterdam

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laure Michon ◽  
Floris Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political

The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs

1992 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
James L. Guth ◽  
Ted G. Jelen
Keyword(s):  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political

Revolution Revisited: The Structuralist-Voluntarist Debate

1999 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehran Kamrava
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
General Category ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThere are three ideal types of revolutions: spontaneous, planned and negotiated. The role and importance of structural factors versus human agency vary according to the general category to which a particular revolution belongs. In spontaneous revolutions, both the transition and conslidation phases are heavily conditioned by prevailing structural factors, especially those that result in the weakening of ruling state institutions and the political mobilization of one or more social groups. By contrast, in planned revolutions self-declared revolutionaries take the lead in both mobilizing supporters and weakening the state, in fact often having a highly elaborate ideological—as well as tactical and strategic—blueprint for the acquisition and consolidation of power. Negotiated revolutions see the greatest coalescence of forces involving both structural developments and human agency. The seeds of the revolution have germinated, but the prevailing structural developments are not by themselves sufficient to bring about the revolution's success. Actors representing both state and society must step in to negotiate, and only then might the revolution succeed and be consolidated.

From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Waterhouse
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter outlines the political, economic, and cultural changes that combined to enflame business's “crisis of confidence” and incite its political mobilization in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It suggests that this experience marked a departure from the early postwar years often described as one of “liberal consensus.” Traditionally, the liberal consensus framework argued that the intense class-oriented battles between labor and business of the Progressive and New Deal periods cooled down after the war, when Cold War imperatives prompted both sides to unite around ideals of liberal democracy and the promise of mass consumption. However, recent scholarship has convincingly demonstrated that many prominent business leaders never accepted New Deal-style liberalism and in fact campaigned actively and vehemently for its rollback from the 1930s onward.

Postscriptum

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Sopranzetti
Keyword(s):  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Political Praxis ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The City ◽  
Methodological Reflection

This chapter takes a step back from Thailand and asks what the political experience of the motorcycle taxi drivers can offer to philosophy of praxis today. In particular, it focuses on three issues that the drivers’ life trajectories, their everyday life in the city, and their adoption of mobility, a characteristic and strength of post-Fordism capitalism, as a tool of political mobilization and a field of struggle raise. First, they invite us to a methodological reflection on the role of contradiction in political praxis; second, they urge us to reconsider where accumulation and the production of value is located in post-Fordist capitalism; and third, they call on us to use this analysis to locate points of least resistance and weak spots on which political pressure can be most effectively applied.

Ethnonationalism and Political Stability: The Soviet Case

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 555-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gail Warshofsky Lapidus
Keyword(s):  
Political Stability ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Federal System ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Soviet System ◽  
Soviet Leadership ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Demographic Policy

While the Soviet system has demonstrated an unusual degree of immunity to the worldwide upsurge of ethnic self-assertion, rising national consciousness among both Russian and non-Russian populations poses a growing, although not necessarily unmanageable, problem for the Soviet leadership. Several issues bearing directly on the resources, power, and status of different nationalities lie at the heart of current debates: the nature and future of the federal system; the pace and pattern of economic development; access to positions of political power; demographic policy; and cultural and linguistic status. Over the long term, the political mobilization of ethnicity is likely to be constrained by both intrinsic and systemic factors, encouraging national elites to focus on strategies and goals that will enhance their power within the system rather than challenging it directly.

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