“JOB-KILLER” BILLS IN TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND LEAVE-POLICY AGENDAS BEFORE AND AFTER THE GREAT RECESSION*

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347
Author(s):  
Cassandra Engeman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Leave Policy ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Sick Leave Policies

How do economic conditions influence social movements' capacity to set legislative agendas? This research examines multiple efforts to expand family, medical, and sick leave policies in California across almost two decades spanning the Great Recession. Longitudinal analysis in a state with political conditions favorable to leave policy agendas permits close consideration of how varying economic conditions shape social movement influence in the policy process. Drawing from various qualitative sources, this research finds that, after the recession, leave bills were more often held in appropriations committees for their estimated costs to the state and anticipated pressures on funding sources. Weak economic conditions also shifted leave advocates' priorities away from leave policy issues toward maintaining public employment and services. The article advances social movement research by showing the mechanisms by which state fiscal capacity shapes social movement strategies and interacts with political conditions at the early, agenda-setting stages of the legislative process.

Populist Social Movements of the Great Recession*

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paris Aslanidis
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The People ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Action Frame

Social movement scholars have thus far failed to give populism its deserved attention and to incorporate it into their field of study. Although sociologists, political scientists, and historians have explored diverse facets of the intersection of populism and social dissent, there has been no concerted effort towards building a comprehensive framework for the study of populist mobilization, despite its growing significance in the past decades. In this article I combine insights from populism studies, social movement scholarship, and social psychology to build a unified framework of analysis for populist social movements. I suggest populism is best understood as a collective action frame employed by movement entrepreneurs to construct a resonant collective identity of “the People” and to challenge elites. I argue that populism depends on the politicization of citizenship, and I apply this framework to the movements of the Great Recession to classify Occupy Wall Street and the European indignados as instances of a populist wave of mobilization, using data from archival material and a set of semistructured interviews with Greek activists.

Social Movements

2020 ◽  
pp. 464-478
Author(s):  
Eduardo Romanos
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Cross National

According to cross-national surveys, Spaniards are among the Europeans who participate the most in street protests. At the same time, Spanish social movements have been generally understood as deploying a less radical protest repertoire and a relatively weak organizational model. Building upon central concepts in social movement studies, this chapter analyses these and other features of the Spanish activist tradition as compared to other Western countries. An especial attention is paid to the strongest protest cycles in Spanish recent history: the years of the democratic transition and the Great Recession. In doing so, this chapter aims to address the long-term effects of regime transition on domestic collective action and organized protest.

scholarly journals Social Movements and Democracy in Spain: Review of Democracia, dignidad y movimientos sociales. El surgimiento de la cultura cívica y la irrupción de los «indignados» en la vida pública. Rubén Díez y Enrique Laraña

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-584
Author(s):  
Tiago Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
New Parties ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Institutional Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Occupy Movements

Over the last decade, Spain became one of the global hotspots for social movement contestation. The emergence of the 15M movement, or Indignados, was of significance not only in Spain, where it gave rise to the longest wave of mobilisation since the transition to the democracy but also internationally as its practices, repertoires and discourses became the blueprint for Occupy movements around the world. In Spain, the Indignados movement unleashed protest potential that transformed mobilisations between 2011 and 2014. The potency of these protests led to a shift in the public debate and the emergence of new parties such as Podemos and Ciudadanos. The 15M was not only a consequence of austerity under the Great Recession. It also transformed democracy, bringing to the fore new frames and repertoires that impacted institutional politics.

Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression through the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 236-240
Author(s):  
Jessamyn Schaller ◽  
Price Fishback ◽  
Kelli Marquardt
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Data Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Income Shocks ◽  
Entire Sample ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Per Capita

This paper reexamines the association between local economic conditions and fertility using a new dataset of county-level birthrates and per capita income in the United States spanning the period 1937-2016. Using a panel data model, we estimate that growth in local income is positively associated with birthrates over our entire sample period and that the strength of that association peaked during the 1960-1990 period and has declined in recent decades. We additionally estimate dynamic responses to local income shocks, finding that birthrates remain elevated for up to four years after a shock.

scholarly journals Family-related Disparities in College Enrollment across the Great Recession

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 689-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Cozzolino ◽  
Chelsea Smith ◽  
Robert L. Crosnoe
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
College Enrollment ◽  
General Trend ◽  
Longitudinal Survey ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Family Stability ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Economic Volatility ◽  
Early Family ◽  
Insight Into

The economic crisis of the Great Recession in the late 2000s had implications for the intergenerational transmission of inequality within families. Studying patterns of college enrollment across the Great Recession among U.S. youth from diverse family contexts provides insight into how economic volatility can either compound or undercut the advantages that some parents can give their children. Although college enrollment among 18- to 21-year-olds did not decline during or after the Great Recession, analyses of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979–Young Adult cohort revealed that this general trend subsumed variability by family history, local economic conditions, and age. Histories of family stability and sufficiency were associated with higher odds of college enrollment over time and across age, but this advantage was largest during the Recession in high-unemployment communities. These results illuminate how life course consequences of early family life can fluctuate with volatility and opportunity in the broader economy.

The Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Confidence in Key Institutions and Interpersonal Trust after the Great Recession

2013 ◽  
Vol 650 (1) ◽  
pp. 274-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay A. Owens ◽  
Karen S. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
County Level ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Aggregate Effects

The effects of recessions on social and political attitudes are likely smaller than the effects on employment, income, and wealth, but relatively modest aggregate effects may be masking differences in attitudes between individuals who live in areas most and least affected by recessions. To investigate social and political attitudes in geographical context, we exploit a new data source that matches individuals to their county of residence to analyze whether changing economic conditions at the county level are associated with changing confidence in major social institutions and with changing levels of interpersonal trust. We find that individuals in particularly affected counties are more likely to decrease their support for organized labor and the federal government. County-level hardship does not appear to be associated with changes in interpersonal measures of trust, however, suggesting that two very different processes may be at play.

scholarly journals The Role of Migration as Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis and EMU

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (6) ◽  
pp. 1497-1508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Huber
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Markets ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Adjustment Mechanism ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity ◽  
The Eu

Using ELFS data from 2004 to 2014 we analyse labour migration as an adjustment mechanism to asymmetric regional labour demand shocks shortly before, during and after the Great Recession in the EU. The results suggest that in this period migration was rather responsive to regional economic conditions, but also point to a substantial heterogeneity across demographic groups, periods and country groups. The mobility of high‑skilled persons and foreign born contributed much more strongly to the adjustment of labour markets than the migration of less‑skilled and natives. Furthermore, among the large integration steps from 2004 to 2014 (i.e., the accession of 12 countries to the EU and the successive liberalisation of immigration from the countries joining the EU after 2004 and Euro accession) mainly the EU‑enlargements worked to improve the adjustment capability of European labour markets through migration.

scholarly journals The Great Recession and Children’s Mental Health in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melisa Bubonya ◽  
Deborah Cobb-Clark ◽  
Daniel Christensen ◽  
Sarah Johnson ◽  
Stephen Zubrick
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Level ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Detectable Effect ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Great Recession

This paper analyzes the effects of “shocks” to community-level unemployment expectations, induced by the onset of the Great Recession, on children’s mental well-being. The Australian experience of the Great Recession represents a unique case study as despite little change in actual unemployment rates, levels of economic uncertainty grew. This affords us the ability to examine the effects of shocks to economic expectations independent of any actual changes to economic conditions. We draw on and link data from multiple sources, including several waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (2004–2010), a consumer sentiment survey, and data on local economic conditions. Using our purpose-built data set, we estimate difference-in-differences models to identify plausibly causal effects. We find, for boys, there is no detectable effect of community-level unemployment expectations shocks on mental health. For girls, however, there are modest increases in mental health problems and externalizing behaviors, as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We additionally find no discernible change in mother’s psychological distress as a result of expectations shocks. These results are stable after controlling for actual labor market conditions.

“I never saw such people”

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Jonathan Dyen
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Downturn ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Grand Narrative ◽  
Literary Response ◽  
Grapes Of Wrath ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Current Economic Crisis

In this essay, I argue that John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath has taken on renewed significance in the midst of the current economic downturn known in the United States as “the Great Recession.” While in the 1930s Steinbeck’s novel offered a way of understanding and responding to the economic conditions of the Depression, today the novel foregrounds the degree to which postmodernism has foreclosed the utopian possibilities of the novel’s grand narrative. I contend that the novel’s methodology can provide a flawed but potent framework for an effective literary response to the current economic crisis.

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