Strategic Alliances: Coalition Building and Social Movements

edited by Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon

University of Minnesota Press, 2010
Cloth: 978-0-8166-6733-8 | Paper: 978-0-8166-6734-5
Library of Congress Classification HM869.S77 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48401

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Social researchers in the past have paid surprisingly little theoretical or empirical attention to movement alliances. Strategic Alliances provides a pioneering set of in-depth analyses of the circumstances leading to these organizational alliances. Contributors investigate coalition dynamics among social movements, including antiwar, environmental, and labor movements, as well as ethnic organizations and women's groups. While many of the essays examine coalition formation in the United States, others consider coalitions in Britain, the former East Germany, East Asia, and Latin America.

Contributors: Paul Almeida, Texas A&M U; Elizabeth Borland, College of New Jersey; Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt U; Catherine Corrigall-Brown, U of British Columbia; Mario Diani, U of Trento; Katja M. Guenther, UC Riverside; Larry Isaac, Vanderbilt U; Isobel Lindsay, Biggar, Scotland; David S. Meyer, UC Irvine; Brian Obach, SUNY New Paltz; Dina G. Okamoto, UC Davis; Christine Petit, UC Riverside; Derrick Purdue, U of the West of England; Ellen Reese, UC Riverside; Benita Roth, SUNY Binghamton; Suzanne Staggenborg, U of Pittsburgh; Dawn Wiest, U of Memphis.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Nella Van Dyke is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced.
Holly J. McCammon is professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
Preface
Introduction: Social Movement Coalition Formation
Nella Van Dyke and Holly J. McCammon
Part I. Social Ties and the Development of Movement Coalitions
1. The Prehistory of a Coalition: The Role of Social Ties in Win Without War
Catherine Corrigall-Brown and David S. Meyer
2. Policing Capital: Armed Countermovement Coalitions against Labor in Late Nineteenth-Century Industrial Cities
Larry Isaac
3. Interstate Dynamics and Transnational Social Movement Coalitions: A Comparison of Northeast and Southeast Asia
Dawn Wiest
Part II. Movement Ideology and Coalition Formation
4. Approaching Merger: The Converging Public Policy Agendas of the AFL and CIO, 1938-1955
Daniel B. Cornfield and Holly J. McCammon
5. "Organizing One's Own" as Good Politics: Second Wave Feminists and the Meaning of Coalition
Benita Roth
6. The Strength of Weak Coalitions: Transregional Feminist Coalitions in Eastern Germany
Katja M. Guenther
Part III. Broad Political Influences on Social Movement Coalitions
7. Organizing across Ethnic Boundaries in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Asian American Panethnic Coalitions
Dina G. Okamoto
8. Social Movement Partyism: Collective Action and Oppositional Political Parties in Latin America
Paul Almeida
9. Political Opportunity and Social Movement Coalitions: The Role of Policy Segmentation and Nonprofit Tax Law
Brian Obach
10. Sustained Interactions? Social Movements and Coalitions in Local Settings
Mario Diani, Isobel Lindsay, and Derrick Purdue
Part IV. Coalitions and Combinations of Causal Factors
11. Crisis as a Catalyst for Cooperation? Women's Organizing in Buenos Aires
Elizabeth Borland
12. Sudden Mobilization: Movement Crossovers, Threats, and the Surprising Rise of the U.S. Antiwar Movement
Ellen Reese, Christine Petit, and David S. Meyer
13. Applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Empirical Studies of Social Movement Coalition Formation
Holly J. McCammon and Nella Van Dyke
Conclusion: Research on Social Movement Coalitions
Suzanne Staggenborg
Contributors
Index

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