Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy
<jats:p>Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce the concept of civic feedbacks, arguing that th...
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| author | Han, Hahrie Campbell, Andrea Louise McKenna, Elizabeth |
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| description | <jats:p>Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce the concept of civic feedbacks, arguing that the ways organizations engage individuals in collective action have feedback effects that shape the strategic position of organizations, the options available to leaders, and the likelihood of policy influence. The mechanisms through which civic feedbacks operate include the depth of accountability to the constituency, the network of elite relationships to which leaders subsequently have access, and their ongoing ability to recruit a committed and flexible constituency willing to engage new issues. Analyzing how these feedbacks redound to organizations over time enhances our ability to explain civic organizations’ differential rates of political influence. The concept of civic feedbacks returns organizations and organizational strategy to the center of the study of political influence.</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1519592024-01-08T20:41:02Z Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy Han, Hahrie Campbell, Andrea Louise McKenna, Elizabeth Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Political Science and International Relations <jats:p>Democracy is premised on the ability of individuals, often working with others, to influence policies affecting them. However, existing theory cannot always explain why some organized efforts are more influential than others. We introduce the concept of civic feedbacks, arguing that the ways organizations engage individuals in collective action have feedback effects that shape the strategic position of organizations, the options available to leaders, and the likelihood of policy influence. The mechanisms through which civic feedbacks operate include the depth of accountability to the constituency, the network of elite relationships to which leaders subsequently have access, and their ongoing ability to recruit a committed and flexible constituency willing to engage new issues. Analyzing how these feedbacks redound to organizations over time enhances our ability to explain civic organizations’ differential rates of political influence. The concept of civic feedbacks returns organizations and organizational strategy to the center of the study of political influence.</jats:p> 2023-08-24T19:27:08Z 2023-08-24T19:27:08Z 2022-04-28 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1537-5927 1541-0986 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151959 Han, Hahrie, Campbell, Andrea Louise and McKenna, Elizabeth. 2022. "Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy." Perspectives on Politics. 10.1017/S1537592722000986 10.1017/s1537592722000986 Perspectives on Politics Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press (CUP) Gillespie |
| spellingShingle | Political Science and International Relations Han, Hahrie Campbell, Andrea Louise McKenna, Elizabeth Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy |
| title | Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy |
| title_full | Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy |
| title_fullStr | Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy |
| title_short | Civic Feedbacks: Linking Collective Action, Organizational Strategy, and Influence over Public Policy |
| title_sort | civic feedbacks linking collective action organizational strategy and influence over public policy |
| topic | Political Science and International Relations |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/151959 |
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