Do media influence policy making? To what extent can governments or other actors
manipulate this influence? Our understanding of the relationship between media and policy …

The Framing Perspective on Social Movements Page 1 The Wiley Blackwell Companion to
Social Movements, Second Edition. Edited by David A. Snow, Sarah A. Soule, Hanspeter …

The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in
over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a …

This article investigates whether a core political demand of the 2020 Black Lives Matter
(BLM) protests was realized:“defund the police.” Original hand-compiled data containing …

We live in a time of protest. Relative to sociology, political science has traditionally paid little
attention to 'extra-institutional'forms of political behaviour. For its part, sociology has tended …

The literature on the interplay of social movements and political parties is growing as
sociologists regain interest in political parties and political scientists pay closer attention to …

This is the first comprehensive overview of the waves of protest mobilization that spread
across Europe in the wake of the Great Recession. Documenting the extent of these protests …

How do protest actions succeed in winning public support? In this paper, I theorize how
features of protest can persuade citizens to support demonstrators. In particular, I argue that …

This paper studies party-movement interactions in Germany, focusing on Die Linke and the
AfD, the two most recent additions to Germany's multi-party system. The electoral rise of both …

This article links the consequences of the Great Recession on protest and electoral politics.
It innovates by combining the literature on economic voting with social movement research …