Globalization and Transnational Social Movement Mobilization, 1963-2003

在西雅图举行的反对世界贸易组织的抗议活动以及随后对全球贸易和投资自由化的抵制，突显了经济和政治权力在超越民族国家的实体中日益集中。全球性机构的重要性日益增加，要求我们对全球变化影响人类社会的方式和社会变革的前景有更深入的了解。这项研究旨在推进全球化进程及其对社会运动影响的实证和理论工作，并将有助于关于全球一体化和制度影响跨国政治动员的方式的日益增长的社会科学研究议程。本研究的第一个组成部分将使用纵向时间序列数据，审查长期以来广泛的人口动态，以评估全球政治环境和跨国社会运动部门的变化如何影响外侨跨国公司人口的增长和变化。第二阶段将涵盖同一时期，但它将使用在国家一级组织的数据来评估国内和国际因素（及其相互作用）的相对重要性，以解释不同国家国家参与跨国社会运动组织的不同程度。该项目将现有的横断面数据集扩展为跨国社会运动组织的纵向数据集，包括来自国际协会年鉴的数据。这项研究的更广泛影响在于它有希望查明跨国组织的跨国组织人口的变化与以国家和全球一级政治日益交织为特征的全球政治环境之间的关系，揭示冲突的调动和当代全球政治制度变化的模式；并通过将有关国家社会运动动员的丰富文献与更广泛的全球社会变革的社会学研究联系起来，为理论建设做出贡献。该项目还将为今后关于全球化如何影响政治动员（反之亦然）的研究提供重要基础，为这项研究编制的数据集将提供给其他研究人员。

SES0-0241017Jackie SmithSUNY Stony BrookThe protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle and subsequent resistance to global trade and investment liberalization highlight the growing centralization of economic and political power in entities that transcend nation-states. The growing importance of global institutions demands a greater understanding of the ways that global changes affect human societies and the prospects for social change. This research seeks to advance both the empirical and theoretical work on globalization processes and their impacts on social movements and will contribute to a growing social science research agenda on the ways that global integration and institutions affect transnational political mobilization. The first component of the study will examine the broad population dynamics over time using longitudinal time-series data to assess how changes in the global political environment and in the transnational social movement sector impact growth and change in the population of TSMOs. The second phase will cover the same time period, but it will use data organized at the country level to assess the relative importance of domestic and international factors (and their interactions) for explaining varying levels of national participation in transnational social movement organizations across different countries. The project expands existing cross-sectional data sets into a longitudinal data set on transnational social movement organizations including data from theYearbook of International Associations. The broader impacts of this study lie in its promise to identify relationships between changes in the population of transnationally organized SMOs and the global political environment, characterized by increasingly intertwined national and global level polities, to uncover patterns of conflict mobilization and change in the contemporary global political system, and to contribute to theory-building by relating a rich literature on national social movement mobilization to the broader sociological study of global social change. The project also will provide important foundations for future research on how globalization affects political mobilization (and visa versa) and the datasets produced for this study will be made available to other researchers.