COSMOS TALK

27 April 2022 | h 12:00-13:30 (CET)

Jennifer Earl, University of Arizona

Spillover as movement agenda setting

Abstract

One of the most consistently demonstrated outcomes of social movements is the ability to influence the public, or policy, agenda. In recent work, this concept of agenda setting has been combined with research on another kind of social movement outcome – spillover – to argue that movements can influence one another’s agenda. For instance, climate change activism may incorporate concerns about global inequality and/or racial/ethnic inequality. Empirical research on agenda spillover between movements shows that movement characteristics such as mobilization levels and status differences between movements, as well as tactical similarities between movements, help to drive agenda spillover. In this paper, we examine the role of social movement organizations (SMOs) in supporting agenda spillover. Scholarship on policy agendas has shown that both mobilization and the number of SMOs increases the likelihood that movements succeed in elevating their issue onto the agenda. Research on more ephemeral overlaps between social movements – termed issue bricolage – has also focused on the role of SMOs in driving these overlaps. We examine whether for more substantial connections between movements, as represented by agenda spillover, SMOs play as important of a role as mobilization.

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