scholarly journals The Religious Right in the United States and Canada: Evangelical Communities, Critical Junctures, and Institutional Infrastructures

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Fetner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Historical Comparative

Why has the religious right been more influential in the United States than in Canada? Traditional approaches to the study of social movements focus only on the life of the movement, from emergence to decline. Instead, I conduct a historical, comparative analysis on the pre-movement activities of evangelical Christian communities in these two countries from 1925-1975. Employing insights from historical institutionalism, I identify two critical junctures in the historical development of evangelical communities that suppressed the entrepreneurship and institution-building activities of Canadian evangelicals relative to those in the United States. I find that these divergences in institution building affected the size and strength of the institutional infrastructures—supportive organizations, networks, and resources—of the religious right movements in these countries. I argue that historical, comparative analysis in general, and historical institutionalism in particular, is useful to social movement scholarship's understanding of cross-national movement comparisons.

scholarly journals THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA: EVANGELICAL COMMUNITIES, CRITICAL JUNCTURES, AND INSTITUTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURES*

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Tina Fetner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Historical Institutionalism ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Historical Comparative

Why has the religious right been more influential in the United States than in Canada? Traditional approaches to the study of social movements focus only on the life of the movement, from emergence to decline. Instead, I conduct a historical, comparative analysis on the premovement activities of evangelical Christian communities in these two countries from 1925–1975. Employing insights from historical institutionalism, I identify two critical junctures in the historical development of evangelical communities that suppressed the entrepreneurship and institution-building activities of Canadian evangelicals relative to those in the United States. I find that these divergences in institution building affected the size and strength of the institutional infrastructures—supportive organizations, networks, and resources—of the religious right movements in these countries. I argue that historical, comparative analysis in general, and historical institutionalism in particular, is useful to social movement scholarship's understanding of crossnational movement comparisons.

scholarly journals Rethinking Institutional Infrastructures: Institution Building as Social Movement Activity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Fetner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Conservative Evangelical ◽  
Historical Comparative ◽  
Church Organizations

*Social movements rely on institutional infrastructures—organizations andnetworks external to movements that provide supports to socialmovements—but comparative work is required to understand divergences in thestrength of institutional infrastructures in similar movements acrossnational borders. I conduct a historical, comparative analysis of thereligious right in Canada and the United States using secondary sources. Iexamine the historical process of institution building in conservative,evangelical Christian communities from 1920-1950. I show that the large,dense network of para-church organizations established by conservative,evangelical Christians in the United States was not similarly establishedin Canada. I identify two historical factors in this critical juncture: therole of denominations and bureaucratic regulation of broadcast radio. Iargue that this critical juncture produced divergences in institutionbuilding that, decades later, affected the supports available to thereligious right movements in these countries. *

scholarly journals Roman Jakobson and American Slavic Studies: The First Postwar Decade

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 91-116
Author(s):  
Henryk Baran
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Roman Jakobson ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
Postwar Decade ◽  
Slavic Studies

Scholars who have assessed Roman Jakobson’s legacy have concentrated on his contributions to various scientific disciplines, while those who knew him, who had been his students or his colleagues, have written about his rhetorical virtuosity, his impact as a lecturer. The present article focuses on a little-studied aspect of his professional biography: the ways in which, during the period mid-1940s to mid-1950s, the émigré scholar carried out an ambitious project to develop Slavic studies (Slavistics, slavistika) as a discipline in the United States. Jakobson’s institution-building activities, conceptualized while he was teaching at Columbia University, were implemented following his move in 1949 to the new Slavic Department at Harvard University. A private group, the Committee for Advanced Slavic Cultural Studies, with which he was closely connected, played a significant role in supporting the Harvard program, and, more broadly, helping develop American Slavistics as a discipline.

Comparative analysis of the trade policy of Barack Obama and Donald Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
V. Iordanova ◽  
A. Ananev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Entire World

The authors of this scientific article conducted a comparative analysis of the trade policy of US presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. The article states that the tightening of trade policy by the current President is counterproductive and has a serious impact not only on the economic development of the United States, but also on the entire world economy as a whole.

scholarly journals Assessing the Risk of Democratic Reversal in the United States: A Reply to Kurt Weyland

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Matias López ◽  
Juan Pablo Luna
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boolean Algebra ◽  
Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
The Public ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT By replying to Kurt Weyland’s (2020) comparative study of populism, we revisit optimistic perspectives on the health of American democracy in light of existing evidence. Relying on a set-theoretical approach, Weyland concludes that populists succeed in subverting democracy only when institutional weakness and conjunctural misfortune are observed jointly in a polity, thereby conferring on the United States immunity to democratic reversal. We challenge this conclusion on two grounds. First, we argue that the focus on institutional dynamics neglects the impact of the structural conditions in which institutions are embedded, such as inequality, racial cleavages, and changing political attitudes among the public. Second, we claim that endogeneity, coding errors, and the (mis)use of Boolean algebra raise questions about the accuracy of the analysis and its conclusions. Although we are skeptical of crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis as an adequate modeling choice, we replicate the original analysis and find that the paths toward democratic backsliding and continuity are both potentially compatible with the United States.

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