Lecture | Topics | Reading review seminars | 1 | Housekeeping & Introduction
- What is political participation? Types of Political Participation, Participation and Democracy
- Why does social movement matter?
Readings
- Arnstein, S. R. (1969) A ladder of citizen participation, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35(4)216–22.
- Russell J. Dalton. 2008. Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 5th ed. Washington: CQ Press. Chapter 3.
| | 2 | No Class | | 3 | Why People Participate? Who participates and who does not?
- How do people become politically mobilized?
- Socialization and political participation
- What barriers to political participation do some groups face?
Readings
- Hibbing, John and Elizabeth Theiss-Morris. 2005. “Citizenship and Civic Engagement”, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 8 Issue 1: 227-249.
- Russell J. Dalton. 2008. Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies, 5th ed. Washington: CQ Press. Ch 4.
- Mettler, Suzanne and Joe Soss. 2004. “The Consequences of Public Policy forDemocratic Citizenship: Bridging Policy Studies and Mass Politics.” Perspectives on Politics 2(1):55-73.
- Teorell, Jan. 2006. "Political participation and three theories of democracy: A research inventory and agenda." European Journal of Political Research 45 (5):787-810.
| 1 | 4 | What is a Social Movement? When and why do movements emerge…and decline?
- Grievances transform to social movement
- Social Movement Theory
Readings
- Tarrow, Sidney (1994). Power in Movement: Social Movements, Collective Action and Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-27.
- Olson, Mancur. The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1965, pp. 5-52.
- Tarrow, Sidney. 1993. “Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness and the Repertoire of Contention.” Social Science History Vol. 17 (2): 281-307.
- Gamson, William A. and Gadi Wolfsfeld. 1993. “Movements and Media as Interacting Systems.”Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 528:114-125.
| 2 | 5 | Impacts of social movement & policy change
- How social movements matter? Do they make a difference?
Readings
- Whittier, N. (2004) The Consequences of Social Movements for Each Other, in The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (eds D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi), Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.
- Giugni, Marco G. 1998. “Was It Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 24:371-393.
- Meyer, David S. 2003. “How Social Movements Matter.” Contexts Vol. 2 (4): 30-35.Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Elizabeth Chiarello, and Yang Su. 2010. “The Political Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:287-307.
- Burstein, P. 1999. “Social Movements and Public Policy”, in How Social Movements Matter (eds Giugni, M. & Mcadam, D. & Tilly, C.), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
| 3 | 6 | Participation in International Politics
- Debate: Power of transnational social movement vs. “the dangers” of global civil society
Readings
- Keck, M. E. and Sikkink, K. (1999), Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics. International Social Science Journal, 51: 89–101.
- Elyachar, Julia. "Empowerment Money: The World Bank, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Value of Culture in Egypt.” Public Culture 14, no.3:493-513.
- Howell, Jude, and Jenny Pearce. "Manufacturing Civil Society from the Outside: Donor Interventions." Chapter 5 in Civil Society and Development. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001.
- Fisher, William. "Doing Good? The Politics and Antipolitics of NGO Practices." Annual Review of Anthropology 26 (1997): 439-464.
- Smith, Jackie. "Bridging Global Divides?". International Sociology 17, no. 4 (2002): 505-28.
| 4 | 7 | Transnational movements
- Transnational Advocacy Networks (TANS)
- Environmental Movements in the Global South
Readings
- Keck, M.E. and Sikkink, K. (1999), “Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics”. International Social Science Journal, 51: 89-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2451.00179
- Marco Giuni and Maria T. Grasso, “Environmental Movements in Advanced Industrial Democracies: Heterogeneity, Transformation, and Institutionalization,” in Annual Review of Environment and Resources 40, (2015), 337-361
- Dwivedi, R. 2001. “Environmental Movements in the Global South: Issues of Livelihood and Beyond”, International Sociology, 16(1):11-31.
| 5 | 8 | Local Environmental Movement
Readings
- Wong, Natalie W.M., (2016), "The road to environmental participatory governance in Taiwan: collaboration and challenges in incineration and municipal waste management", Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1251400
- Lee, Yok-shiu F. and So, Alvin Y., eds., 1999, Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
| 6 | 9 | Democratization movement
- Case of South Korea
Readings
- Garretón, Manuel Antonio. "Social Movements and Democratization." In Social Movements in Development: The Challenge of Globalization and Democratization, edited by Staffan Lindberg and Árni Sverrisson, 67-77. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997.
- della Porta, D. 2013. Democracy and Social Movements. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements.
- Kim, Sunhyuk. "Civil Society and Democratization in South Korea." Korea Journal 38, no. 2 (1998): 214-36.
Shin, G.W. and Chang, P. Y. eds (2011), South Korean Social Movements: From Democracy to Civil Society. Oxon: Routledge.
| 7 | 10 | Democratization and retreat
Readings
- Ngok, M. (2008), “ Civil Society and Democratization in Hong Kong Paradox and Duality”. Taiwan Journal of Democracy, Volume 4, No.2: 155-175
- Stephan Ortmann (2015), “The Umbrella Movement and Hong Kong’s Protracted Democratization Process”, Asian Affairs, 46:1, 32-50, DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2014.994957
- Francis Lee (2020) Solidarity in the Anti-Extradition Bill movement in Hong Kong, Critical Asian Studies, 52:1, 18-32
| 8 | 11 | Social Movement in authoritarian regime
-Case of China
Readings
Wong, Natalie W.M. (2016) “Environmental protests and NIMBY activism: Local politics and waste management in Beijing and Guangzhou”, China Information, 30(2):143-164.
- Xi Chen (2012), Social Protest ad Contentious Authoritarianism in China (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), Chapter 5.
- Andrew Mertha (2008), China’s Water Warriors: Citizen Action and Policy Change (Cornell Cornell University Press), Chapters 5 & 6.
- Lianjiang Li and Kevin O’Brien (2008), “Protest Leadership in Rural China,” China Quarterly, 193: 1-23.
- Xi Chen and Ping Xu (2011), “From Resistance to Advocacy: Political Representation for Disabled People in China,” China Quarterly, 207: 649-667.]
| 9 | 12 | What Makes a Social Movement Successful?
Readings:
- McCammon, Holly J., Karen E. Campbell, Ellen M. Granberg and Christine Mowery. 2001. “How Movements Win: Gendered Opportunity Structures and U.S. Women’s Surage Movements, 1866 to 1919.”American Sociological Review 66(1):49-70.
- Gamson, William A. (2015). “Defining Movement “Success”” Pp. 383-385 in The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 3rd Ed, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
- Pellow, David N and Robert J. Brulle. (2015) “Environmental Justice.” Pp. 391-397 in The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts, 3rd Ed, edited by Jeff Goodwin and James M. Jasper. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
- Stephan, Maria J. and Erica Chenoweth. (2008). “Why civil resistance works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.” International Security, 33(1): 7-44.
- Ozden, J. and Glover, S. (2023). “What makes a social movement successful?”, Social Change Lab. Available at:
| 10 | 13 | No Class | | 14 | Doing Social Movement Research
Readings:
- Lichterman, Paul. (2001). “Seeing Structure Happen: Theory-Driven Participant Observation,” in Suzanne Staggenborg and Bert Klandermans (eds), Methods of Social Movement Research. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, pp. 118–45.
- Balsiger, Philip and Alexandre Lambelet. (2014). “Participant Observation” Pp. 144-172 in Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research, edited by Donatella della Porta. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Lindekilde, Lisa. (2014). “Discourse and Frame Analysis: In-Depth Analysis of Qualitative Data in Social Movement Research” Pp. 195-227 in Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research, edited by Donatella della Porta. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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