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

合作研究詹妮弗·厄尔亚利桑那大学尼尔·卡伦北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校埃德温·阿门特加州大学欧文分校合作研究：美国的集体行动动力学，1960-1995社会运动是政治和社会参与的重要载体，允许个人集体行动来影响政府、企业和其他重要的社会机构。这个项目使用两个先前由美国国家科学基金会资助的项目——集体行动的动力项目和新闻中的政治组织项目——的综合和增强数据，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数据与使用上述创新数据集的社会运动组织（SMOs）数据来比较社会运动动态。其次，该项目通过使用抗议事件的数据来调查破坏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，对社会运动学者来说，更好地理解推动媒体关注的动力是一个重要问题。第三，该项目评估抗议活动和对SMOs的新闻报道随着时间的推移可能影响公众舆论趋势的程度。具体来说，我们预计特定类型的运动事件会影响人们对运动的看法，这种看法会随着运动的生命周期而变化，并取决于对运动的政治反应。最后，我们的项目将研究研究人员感兴趣的一个关键方法论问题：选择偏差表明，新闻媒体只覆盖了社会生活的一部分，并且以选择性和结构化的方式进行报道。我们的项目将使用抗议事件和SMOs的数据来确定选择性报道抗议事件与选择性报道SMOs之间的差异。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。更广泛的影响理解民主背景下塑造政治参与的动态是公众和政策制定者广泛关注的问题。同样，加深我们对媒体报道和政治行动主义的公众舆论的理解，对广泛的利益相关者来说也很重要。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了自1960年以来国内政治活动的公开数据集，其规模迄今未知。此外，在建立数据集的过程中所产生的方法上的进步以及从分析中得出的进步将向公众提供。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.