New social movements : the role of legal opportunity
By: HILSON, Chris
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ArticlePublisher: April 2002Subject(s): Grupo de Pressão | Política | Economia Internacional | Política Externa | Movimento Social | EuropaJournal of European Public Policy 9, 2, p. 238-255Abstract: The article seeks to introduce the ideal of legal opportunity into social movement theory. It suggest that while lobbyng, litigation and protest have all been studied by political scientists as strategies for policyu change, they have tended to consider the three in varying degrees of isolation. The article aims to remedy this by providing an integrated analysis of all three types of strategy, in a domestic and EU context. Fours social movements - the women's mo9vement, the environmental movement, the lesbian and gay movement, and the animal welfare movement - are used as examples in this respect
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The article seeks to introduce the ideal of legal opportunity into social movement theory. It suggest that while lobbyng, litigation and protest have all been studied by political scientists as strategies for policyu change, they have tended to consider the three in varying degrees of isolation. The article aims to remedy this by providing an integrated analysis of all three types of strategy, in a domestic and EU context. Fours social movements - the women's mo9vement, the environmental movement, the lesbian and gay movement, and the animal welfare movement - are used as examples in this respect
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