Missed Opportunities: Social Movement Abeyance and Public Policy

摘要: Social movements can continue in hostile political climates by adapting abeyance structures, that is, disengaging from active challenge to the state on policy matters focus instead preserving enduring values and identity. But doing so be politically costly. In this article we provide a theoretical framework for understanding outcomes of movement abeyance, drawing recent work opportunity structure domains. We present more developed model social which includes not only retreat engagement, but also fragmentation broad coalition, use examine women's 1980s. then look at costs two areas: family leave fetal protection. Partly response national climate 1980s, adopted less visible public profile. This may have allowed groups maintain their identity values, choices activists made survive times had longer term consequences terms lost influence. conclude with discussion interaction opportunities abeyance.