Social Movements, Strategic Choice, and Recourse to the Polls*

摘要: In 2011, twenty-one state legislatures held floor votes on one or more bills seeking to limit teachers' collective bargaining rights, tenure protections, both. eighteen states, these became law. Teachers' unions took varying approaches fighting against pieces of legislation, but only in a few states did they turn the ballot box, despite widespread availability electoral tactics. this study, I use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) determine why most not ballot. find two causal “pathways”: which political opportunity structures and union strength make legislative compromise possible, another conditions, along with nature threat, success at seem unlikely. Social movement scholars must reexamine role that threat plays strategic choice processes, prospect theory can help sense choices.