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Grassroots-Campaigning ist ein neues Instrument für Politik, Wirtschaft und Organisationen, um Wähler, Kunden und Mitglieder auf andere Weise zu mobilisieren und zu binden. In diesem Buch werden alle Facetten des Grassroots-Campaigning dargestellt: Grundkonzepte und Stand der Forschung, die einzelnen Anwendungsbereiche und Instrumente, die Voraussetzungen und Probleme

Grassroots-Campaigning ist ein neues Instrument für Politik, Wirtschaft und Organisationen, um Wähler, Kunden und Mitglieder auf andere Weise zu mobilisieren und zu binden. In diesem Buch werden alle Facetten des Grassroots-Campaigning dargestellt: Grundkonzepte und Stand der Forschung, die einzelnen Anwendungsbereiche und Instrumente, die Voraussetzungen und Probleme.

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Multi-Level Politics and the Liberal Party -- 2 Grassroots Party Activists -- 3 Constituency Associations -- 4 Local Campaigns and Grassroots Armies -- 5 Small Worlds -- 6 Little Fiefdoms -- 7 Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index.

Examining both the promise of grassroots environmental activism and the challenges activists face, Staggenborg provides an inside look at grassroots organizing across five diverse organizations. This book is for scholars and students of political science and sociology, as well as anyone interested in pressing environmental issues.

Grassroots activism is essential to the success of the contemporary environmental movement, which depends on the organization of local activists as well as state, national, and international organizations. Yet grassroots activists confront numerous challenges as they attempt to organize diverse participants and devise fresh strategies and tactics. Drawing on more than seven years of fieldwork following diverse organizations in Pittsburgh over time, this book sheds light on the struggles that activists face and the factors that sustain movements. Suzanne Staggenborg examines individual motivations and participation, organizational structures and cultures, relationships in movement communities, and strategies and tactics, including issue framing. The book shows that collective action campaigns and tactics generate solidarity, maintain involvement, and bring in new participants even as organizers struggle to devise effective new types of actions.

The economic, social and political changes that have occurred in Russia over the last 10 years have had a profound effect on Russian women's lives. Economic reform has brought poverty, insecurity and high levels of anxiety and stress to much of the population, both male and female. The impact of these changes on women was amplified in the early 1990s by their structural positioning both within the workforce and within the population, brought about by the legacies of the Soviet planned economy, Soviet attitudes to gender and long established demographic trends. Alongside these historical influences, 'new' essentialist attitudes towards gender and the appropriate roles and responsibilities of women in post-Soviet Russian society have been strongly promoted through the media, political and social discourses, imposing new pressures and dilemmas on many post-Soviet Russian women.

Numerous women's organisations have been established in Russia since the early 1990s, many of them with a specific remit of helping Russian women to overcome the upheavals and hardships which they face. Struggling to survive themselves with very few resources and minimal external support, Russia's grassroots women's organisations have nonetheless offered practical help and advice and emotional support and solidarity to their members.

This paper is based on the findings of a period of intensive fieldwork carried out in 1995-6 with grassroots women's organisations in Moscow and three Russian provincial centres. It will present the aims, activities and impact of the groups studied. It will also investigate the ways in which these groups and their membership positioned themselves in relation to the development of essentialist attitudes and opinions on gender within Russia on the one hand, and a dialogue with 'western' feminist theory and practice on the other.

The economic, social and political changes that have occurred in Russia over the last 10 years have had a profound effect on Russian women's lives. Economic reform has brought poverty, insecurity and high levels of anxiety and stress to much of the population, both male and female. The impact of these changes on women was amplified in the early 1990s by their structural positioning both within the workforce and within the population, brought about by the legacies of the Soviet planned economy, Soviet attitudes to gender and long established demographic trends. Alongside these historical influences, 'new' essentialist attitudes towards gender and the appropriate roles and responsibilities of women in post-Soviet Russian society have been strongly promoted through the media, political and social discourses, imposing new pressures and dilemmas on many post-Soviet Russian women. Numerous women's organisations have been established in Russia since the early 1990s, many of them with a specific remit of helping Russian women to overcome the upheavals and hardships which they face. Struggling to survive themselves with very few resources and minimal external support, Russia's grassroots women's organisations have nonetheless offered practical help and advice and emotional support and solidarity to their members. This paper is based on the findings of a period of intensive fieldwork carried out in 1995-6 with grassroots women's organisations in Moscow and three Russian provincial centres. It will present the aims, activities and impact of the groups studied. It will also investigate the ways in which these groups and their membership positioned themselves in relation to the development of essentialist attitudes and opinions on gender within Russia on the one hand, and a dialogue with 'western' feminist theory and practice on the other.