Reflections on the Institutional Self-Transformation of Movement Politics: A Tentative Stage Model

摘要: It has become quite commonplace in the 1980s to refer movements such as peace, civil rights, environmental, and women’s “new” social movements. This terminology is used by activists, political commentators, scientists alike. But its justification far from obvious. can hardly be taken signal just recent or unexpected nature of socio-political phenomena which are summarily categorized movements, since, at least retrospect, there seems a virtually uninterrupted history significant movement politics most Western democracies for twenty years.