Search results
2.2 A strategic choice approach to the movement–media relationship 42 3.1 Overview of the kinds of actors mentioned in media coverage 52 3.2 Overview of the pro-life actors mentioned in media coverage 53 3.3 Overview of the pro-choice actors mentioned in media coverage 54 3.4 Number of mentions in American newspapers, 1980–2000 55
Note: The categories of actors mentioned include religious actors, individuals representing companies that make drugs (e.g., the pill), the Alan Guttmacher Institute, White House representatives, leaders from other social movements, think tank spokespeople, radical pro-life organizations (such as Army of God), executive nominees, media professionals (e.g., other journalists), presidential and ...
- Deana A. Rohlinger
- 2014
- A – Introduction
- B – Political Participation in Postindustrial America
- C – Interest Groups
- D – Social Movements
- E – Citizens
- F – Media
- G – Corporations and Economic Interests
- H – Political Parties and Elections
- I – Governmental Structures and The Policy Process
- J – A Review of Policy Models
In this chapter, we describe state and local government policy processes and the various actors and interests that typically seek to influence those processes. Public policy and the policy process have been defined in the following way by most social scientists that study these phenomena: From this definition of key terms, it is clear that a divers...
Contemporary studies of public participation in postindustrial societies suggest that a new style of politics has emerged over the course of the last several decades.3 This new style of politics is characterized in major part by an expansion of what has been considered appropriate political action. Some scholars who carry out research in this area ...
All postindustrial nations, including the United States, are experiencing explosive growth in the number, scope of concerns, and size of interest groups seeking to influence public policy.16 Community-based interest groups and other grassroots organizations concerned with a variety of public policy issues are variously labeled as public interest gr...
As discussed previously, political scientists have identified two distinct forms of political participation intended to influence public policy — i.e., the “elite-directed” and “elite challenging” modes of political action. Contemporary studies of the policy process in postindustrial societies indicate that the elite challenging mode of politics ha...
As discussed previously, there are a variety of ways that citizens can influence state and local policy processes as discussed above — traditional and elite-challenging methods. Traditional methods would include:34 1.voting in elections. 2.working on political campaigns for candidates or political parties, which could include convincing others how ...
The mass media play an important role in state and local government policy processes. In the U.S. “children spend more time in front of television sets than in school,” and more than two-thirds of the people in the country “report they receive all or most of their news from television” – given these facts and given the growth of the electronic mass...
Businesses and multinational corporations are another set of actors that are extremely important in the political life of state and local government. The noted scholar Charles Lindblom argued convincingly that business enjoys a “privileged position” in American politics generally, and in state and local government in particular. In capitalist or ma...
Political parties are important actors in state and local public policy processes throughout the country. Typically, political parties “reflect a political culture with distinct world views” that are organized to “seek power in government.”55While the Founding Fathers tried very hard to insulate the new nation from the development of factions and p...
Parliamentary and separation of powers governments — the former exemplified by most European countries, and the latter by the United States — are the two principal forms of democratic governance in the postindustrial countries. In the U.S. we directly elect state governors and members of our state legislatures. Governors typically have the ability ...
As noted at the outset of this chapter, public policy has been defined by Thomas Dye in the following way: “whatever governments choose to do or not to do.”59 While there is general agreement among social scientists that this is a suitable working definition of public policy, there is considerable controversy regarding just how the policy process w...
- Christopher A. Simon, Brent S. Steel, Nicholas P. Lovrich
- 2018
Until now, research on the interface between social movement actors and the media has attended to the ways in which movements attempt to acquire media attention to garner audience support. Here, rather than simply exploring the media coverage that a movement group gets, Rohlinger calls attention to the choices that movement groups make to engage (or not) with the various forms of mass media.
Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes. Drawing on a database covering the quasi-universe of protests held in the United States, we identify 14 social movements that ...
Jun 19, 2022 · To do so, we compiled a list of climate movement actor Twitter handles (n = 85, see Supplementary Information File Appendix II) and filtered our US Twitter discourse dataset to select all tweets that were posted by actors based in the US. This US-based climate movement actors’ Twitter dataset contains 27,235 tweets.
People also ask
Who are climate movement actors?
What actors are involved in state and local government governance?
Which actors are important in the political life of state and local government?
Dec 26, 2018 · As manifested in America, populism has features of liberal economic policies – e.g., protectionism, support for mass entitlement programs – conservative social policies and isolationist ...
