... to the globalization issues (especially immigration). globalization cultural operationalization of cleavage strength issue salience challengers from the right collective identity counterweight thesis cultural issues categorization economic issues categorization human rights national identity new social...

...This chapter analyzes the tactics used by the Religious Right against the LGBT movement from 1974 to 2009. The Religious Right mobilized interested local activists, affected public opinion, and grew as a movement by fighting LGBT rights at the ballot box through direct democracy, the proposal...

... complicates model campaign tactics. It also discusses how the Religious Right exploited the internal conflicts of the LGBT movement through smear tactics and racialized special rights messaging. With these moves, the Religious Right put pressure on LGBT campaigns by questioning whether the African American...

...This chapter discusses the naïveté of American optimism regarding the economy and the left and right’s competing visions of the good society as well as their views about the nation’s ills and their proposed strategies for tackling them. For the past few years, everybody has been aware that America...

... dependence on marriage and submission to a sexual double standard. In their latest offensive, Bennett and Wehner remind us that what the right is pushing as welfare reform is moral fiat rooted in religious dogma. It is the churches that have made a moral issue of confining sex and procreation to marriage...

...This chapter examines the dynamics of rebuilding in one of the most devastated neighborhoods in New Orleans, the Lower Ninth Ward, after Hurricane Katrina and how this area has become a laboratory for architectural experimentation. In particular, it looks at Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation...

...This chapter considers the debate over pregnancy and fetal rights. More specifically, it examines whether a pregnant woman should be forced to undergo any prenatal tests or medical treatments, including surgery, that her doctor believes are necessary for a healthy birth. It looks at the case...

...This chapter studies the films Do the Right Thing and Working Girl, which exemplify the “no exit” and “only exit” scenarios of the lives of working-class men and women. The problem for most working-class people is that they lack both the economic and the cultural...

... the movement with intellectual and material resources crucial for activism. However, youth activism in Thailand declined after the Right-wing movements and the Thai state massacred several youth activists on October 6, 1976. Though individual students and groups have been intermittently involved in politics...

...This chapter traces how the groundwork of the LGBT movement was laid out during the 1970s and 1980s. It shows that the movement’s initial response to Religious Right-sponsored ballot measures against homosexuality was weak due to the absence of a real social movement infrastructure, especially...

...This chapter examines the debate over abortion rights. Abortion used to be almost always discussed in feminist terms—as a political issue affecting the condition of women. Since then, the right-to-life movement has succeeded in getting the public and the media to see abortion as an abstract moral...

...This chapter examines the resurgence of family chauvinism as a cultural trend during the 1970s. It considers the right’s impassioned defense of traditional family values and how it has affected the social atmosphere even in the liberal, educated middle class that produced the cultural radicals...

... rather than welfare, Americans might be convinced that the real issue is not how to end welfare but how to end poverty. The trajectory of welfare politics offers the most striking evidence of how the deep, unconscious appeal of the right’s world view drives the framing of political issues, not the other...

...This chapter comments on the incessant demonizing of popular culture and media by both the right and the left. From tabloid television and MTV to gangsta rap, Pulp Fiction and saturation coverage of O. J. Simpson/the Bobbitts/Amy Fisher, politicians and high-minded journalists see...

... identity framing operationalization of cleavage strength issue salience Rokkan Stein new left unions strikes environment European integration categorization global justice categorization Green parties Greens human rights radical right reverse new politics della Porta Donatella zero sum...

... multivariate analyses World Economic Forum WEF World Trade Organization WTO Grande Edgar Kriesi Hanspeter welfare protest politics social movements cleavages populist radical right new social movements comparative politics Western Europe This chapter commences the second part of the book...

... from the left and challengers from the right. congruence thesis counterweight thesis differences cross arena different logics thesis logic of numbers new social movements configuration of power cultural issues categorization economic issues categorization challengers from the left challengers...

...This book links research on cleavage politics and the populist right with research on social movements. Both research fields have extensively dealt with the transformative power of globalization on political mobilization and conflict. At the same time, this book highlights that both fields tend...

... of the right-to-life movement to discuss how the two groups might defuse the “polarization” over abortion and work together to advance their common interests. The right-to-lifers used the meeting to get some dramatic publicity by bringing in two dead fetuses and denouncing “baby-killers.” This humiliating...

... wing of the right-to-life movement, by arguing that opposition to abortion can be separated from the right’s antifeminist program, has given antiabortion sentiment legitimacy in left-symp and (putatively) profeminist circles. This chapter suggests that opposing abortion means accepting that women must...