We examine scholarship on the role and influence of advocacy organizations in the US
political process. We identify common theoretical questions in the disconnected literatures …

Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include
individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared …

We examine political polarization over climate change within the American public by
analyzing data from 10 nationally representative Gallup Polls between 2001 and 2010. We …

When seeking to influence firm decision making, what types of influence strategies do
stakeholders have available, and what determines which type the stakeholders choose to …

Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events--sudden calamities that cause
both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press …

I media sono lo spazio dove oggi si decide la lotta politica fra attori, idee e interessi
contrapposti. Se le élite politiche cercano di imporre i propri modelli interpretativi sugli eventi …

An increasingly dominant, largely American response to the contemporary environmental
crisis understands environmental degradation as the product of individual shortcomings and …

In this article, we argue that a major reason the United States failed to ratify the Kyoto
Protocol to ameliorate global warming is the opposition of the American conservative …

Interview and questionnaire data obtained from 73 leaders of nonprofit environmentalist and
for-profit environmental product and service organizations showed that these leaders' …

Through a study of the emergent US wind energy sector, 1978–1992, this paper examines
how large-scale social movements external to an industry can influence the creation of new …