Research on the political consequences of social movements has recently accelerated. We
take stock of this research with a focus on movements in democratic polities and the United …

This article provides a first systematic review of the connection between public policy
analysis and QCA (Qualitative Comparative Analysis) techniques, with an emphasis on the …

In July 2010, Terry Jones, the pastor of a small fundamentalist church in Florida, announced
plans to burn two hundred Qur'ans on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Though …

Numerous studies indicate that civil society organizations create cultural change by
deploying mainstream messages that resonate with prevailing discursive themes. Yet these …

With civic engagement commonly understood to be on the decline and traditional bases of
community and means of engagement increasingly fractured, how do people become …

Over the last decade there has been an increased focus on social movement outcomes. 1
This increased attention has led to calls for the improvement of our theoretical and …

Systematically combining quantitative and qualitative research approaches offers the
potential for a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of social scientific …

Audiences are important to social movements, but the relationships between social
movements and their audiences are not well understood. This article uses scholarship from …

Social movement campaigns help create the networks and collective identities needed to
build social movement communities, which in turn support subsequent collective campaigns …

Zusammenfassung Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) wurde von dem Soziologen
Charles C. Ragin als Verbindung von fallorientierten, konfigurativen Ansätzen und …