The Consequences of Social Movements

A new study of the personal, political, and institutional impacts of social movements.

This book examines the consequences of social movements, a topic that has attracted much attention in recent years from academics, students and the wider public. The authors cover a variety of aspects of social movement activity, dealing with their personal, political, and institutional impacts.Social movements have attracted much attention in recent years, both from scholars and among the wider public. This book examines the consequences of social movements, covering such issues as the impact of social movements on the life course of participants and the population in general, on political elites and markets, and on political parties and processes of social movement institutionalization. The volume makes a significant contribution to research on social movement outcomes in three ways: theoretically, by showing the importance of hitherto undervalued topics in the study of social movements outcomes; methodologically, by expanding the scientific boundaries of this research field through an interdisciplinary approach and new methods of analysis; and empirically, by providing new evidence about social movement outcomes from Europe and the United States.