Democracy and Social Movements

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

This session examines the ways in which social movements have and are responding to emerging and continuing democratic deficits in the United States. It focuses on the organizations that have emerged, the tactics they have used, and the results that they have (or have not) achieved. The first two papers consider the Black Lives Matter movement, while the second two papers explore a wider variety of advocacy organizations. All of the papers analyze the normative implications of their empirical findings.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Individual Presentations

• The Role of Black Women Political Elites in #BlackLivesMatter - Nadia E. Brown, Georgetown University; Jean Beaman, University of California Santa Barbara

• For Whom Does Democracy Work? The Influence of the Black Lives Matter Movement - Fernando Arturo Tormos Aponte, University of Maryland Baltimore County

• Building People, Building Power: Grassroots Collective Action in the USA - Hahrie C. Han, Johns Hopkins University

• American Democracy Under Protest - Michael T. Heaney, University of Glasgow

Chair

• Lee Ann Banaszak Pennsylvania State University

Discussants

• Christopher S. Parker University of Washington

• Corrine M. McConnaughy Princeton University