Collaborative Research: Collective Action Dynamics in the U.S., 1960-1995

协作研究-1154896Jennifer Earl University of Arizonas SES-1153797 Neal CarenUniversity of North Carolina，Chapel Hillses-1155008 Edwin Amenta University of California，Irvine摘要协作研究：美国的集体行动动态，1960-1995社会运动是政治和社会参与的关键工具，使个人能够集体行动，影响政府、商业和其他重要的社会机构。这个项目使用了NSF之前资助的两个项目--集体行动的动态项目和新闻中的政治组织--的合并和扩充数据，研究了关于社会运动的四个重要问题。首先，该项目将使用抗议事件的数据与社会运动组织(SMO)的数据与上述创新的数据集进行比较。其次，该项目利用抗议活动的数据，调查颠覆性策略如何影响新闻媒体对社会运动和社会运动组织的报道。鉴于新闻媒体的持续重要性，更好地理解推动媒体关注的动力是社会运动学者面临的一个重要问题。第三，该项目评估了随着时间的推移，抗议和对SMO的新闻报道可能会在多大程度上影响舆论趋势。具体地说，我们预计，特定类型的运动事件会塑造人们对运动的好感，这种情况会在运动的整个生命周期内发生变化，并取决于对运动的政治反应。最后，我们的项目将考察研究人员感兴趣的一个关键方法问题：选择偏差意味着新闻媒体只报道社会生活的一部分，并以选择性和结构化的方式这样做。我们的项目将使用抗议事件和SMO的数据来确定选择性报道抗议事件和选择性报道SMO之间的区别。定量分析将依赖于负二项模型、ARMA模型、多项逻辑回归以及时间序列分析。广泛的影响了解在民主背景下塑造政治参与的动态是公众和政策制定者共同关心的广泛问题。同样，加深我们对媒体报道和公众舆论对政治激进主义的理解，对广泛的利益攸关方也很重要。这项研究的结果可能会引起参与监测国内和国际事件和趋势的政策分析人员的兴趣。更广泛的影响还包括创建关于1960年以来国内政治激进主义的公开数据集，其规模迄今不为人知。此外，将向公众提供在创建数据集的过程中产生的方法进步，以及从分析中得出的方法进步。该项目还将为本科生和研究生提供大量的研究培训。

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCHSES-1154896Jennifer EarlUniversity of ArizonaSES-1153797Neal CarenUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel HillSES-1155008Edwin AmentaUniversity of California, IrvineAbstractCollaborative Research: Collective Action Dynamics in the U.S., 1960-1995Social movements are critical vehicles for political and social engagement, allowingindividuals to act collectively to influence government, business, and other vital socialinstitutions. This project examines four important questions about social movements usingcombined and augmented data from two prior NSF-funded projects, the Dynamics of CollectiveAction project and the Political Organizations in the News project.First, the project will compare social movement dynamics using data on protest events versus data on social movement organizations (SMOs) with the innovative dataset described above. Second, the project investigates how disruptive tactics affect news media coverage of social movements and social movement organizations by using data on protest events. Given the continued importance of the news media, better understanding the dynamics that drive media attention is an important question for social movement scholars. Third, the project assesses the extent to which protest and the news coverage of SMOs may influence public opinion trends over time. Specifically, we expect that specific types of movement events shape how favorably the movement is perceived, that this shifts over the lifespan of the movement and depends on political responses to the movement. Finally, our project will examine a key methodological issue of interest to researchers: Selection bias suggests that the news media cover only a portion of social life and do so in selective and structured manners. Our project will use data on protest events and SMOs to pinpoint the differences between selective reporting on protest events versus the selective reporting on SMOs. Quantitative analyses will rely on negative binomial models, ARMA models, multinomial logistic regressions, as well as time series analysis.Broader ImpactsUnderstanding the dynamics that shape political participation in a democratic context is an issue of broad interest to the general public and policy makers alike. Similarly, furthering our understanding of media coverage and public opinion of political activism is important to a broad set of stakeholders. Findings from this study may be of interest to policy analysts involved in monitoring domestic and international events and trends. Broader impacts also include the creation of publically available dataset on domestic political activism since 1960 at a scale hitherto unknown. In addition, methodological advances produced in the process of creating the data set, as well as those derived from analysis will be made available to the public. The project will also offer substantial research training to undergraduate and graduate students.