Journal article
Civil Liberty in America: The Diffusion of Municipal Bill of Rights Resolutions after the Passage of the USA PATRIOT Act
The American journal of sociology, Vol.114(6), pp.1716-1764
05/01/2009
DOI: 10.1086/597177
Abstract
In the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, some 400 local governments passed "Bill of Rights" resolutions in opposition to the USA PATRIOT Act. Event history analyses show that cities with progressive profiles were markedly quicker to pass such resolutions. These effects are strongest in the early phase of the Bill of Rights campaign, a period for which there is also robust evidence of contagious influence among nearby cities. The authors argue that the campaign's success lies in the miscibility of multiple movements-the ability of groups with different beliefs, agendas, and traditions to combine around a common goal. The case is used to distinguish between strong and weak forms of miscibility and to develop insight into strategic, organizational, and political conditions that promote the construction of movement-spanning coalitions.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Civil Liberty in America: The Diffusion of Municipal Bill of Rights Resolutions after the Passage of the USA PATRIOT Act
- Creators
- Ion Bogdan Vasi - Columbia UniversityDavid Strang - Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of sociology, Vol.114(6), pp.1716-1764
- DOI
- 10.1086/597177
- ISSN
- 0002-9602
- eISSN
- 1537-5390
- Publisher
- Univ Chicago Press
- Number of pages
- 49
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2009
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Management and Entrepreneurship ; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984306244902771
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