Social movements rely on coalitions to help mobilize the mass numbers of people necessary
for success. In this article, we review the literature on social movement coalition formation …

Civil society is frequently conceived as a field of multiple organizations, committed to highly
diverse causes and interests. When studied empirically, however, its properties are often …

To understand the development, dynamics, and potential influence of protest movements,
one needs to understand the range of coalitional forms. Successful and sustained …

Some time ago, Minkoff and McCarthy (2005, 290–92) identified the study of movements as
organizational fields as a key area of research in the recent past, yet one in which the link …

How has the youth climate movement in the US grown since the Climate Strikes began and
in what ways did it change as it grew? This article takes advantage of a unique dataset that …

Why do some people perceive more injustice, feel more anger, or hold higher collective
efficacy beliefs, and thereby are readier to engage in collective action than others? Our …

Social movement scholarship has increasingly sought to understand the relational dynamics
of internal movement activity, from investigating the factors that enable movement coalitions …

Gender politics scholars conclude that conservatives and religious actors curtail women's
rights and political participation during a democratic transition, except in post‐conflict …

Although scholars have long recognized the importance of organization to collective action
(eg, McCarthy and Zald 1977; Tilly 1978), only recently have coalitions among those …

How did a local protest motivated by the murder of a poet's son grow into a national social
movement? In this article, I examine the role of framing in the upward scale shift of the …