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

合作研究-1154896詹妮弗·厄尔亚利桑那大学SES-1153797尼尔·卡伦北卡罗来纳州大学，教堂山SES-1155008埃德温·阿门塔加州大学，欧文摘要合作研究：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工具，允许个人集体行动，影响政府，企业和其他重要的社会机构。该项目使用来自两个先前NSF资助项目的组合和增强数据来研究关于社会运动的四个重要问题，这两个项目是集体行动项目的动态和新闻中的政治组织项目。首先，该项目将使用抗议事件的数据与社会运动组织（SMO）的数据与上述创新数据集比较社会运动动态。其次，该项目通过使用抗议事件的数据，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，更好地了解推动媒体关注的动态是社会运动学者的一个重要问题。第三，该项目评估了抗议活动和新闻报道对社会组织的影响程度。具体来说，我们预计，特定类型的运动事件塑造了运动被认为是多么有利，这在运动的生命周期中发生变化，并取决于对运动的政治反应。最后，我们的项目将研究一个关键的研究人员感兴趣的方法论问题：选择偏差表明，新闻媒体只覆盖社会生活的一部分，这样做的选择性和结构化的方式。我们的项目将使用抗议事件和SMOs的数据，以查明对抗议事件的选择性报道与对SMOs的选择性报道之间的差异。定量分析将依赖于负二项模型，阿尔马模型，多项逻辑回归，以及时间序列分析。更广泛的影响理解在民主背景下塑造政治参与的动态是一个公众和决策者都广泛感兴趣的问题。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攸关方也很重要。 参与监测国内和国际事件和趋势的政策分析人员可能会对这项研究的结果感兴趣。 更广泛的影响还包括创建了自1960年以来国内政治活动的数据集，其规模前所未有。 此外，将向公众提供在创建数据集过程中取得的方法上的进展以及通过分析得出的进展。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.