Non-Established Actors: Civil Society and Social Movement Outcomes

This section compiles comparative and historical and theoretical literature on the impact of non-established actors on public communication and public policy. This includes literature under the heading of civil society, civic culture, voluntary associations and social movement outcomes.

  • Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1998. “Civil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical Transformations.” Pp. 1-19 in Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization, edited by Alexander, Jeffrey C. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage.
  • —, ed. 1998. Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization. Thousand Oaks (CA): Sage.
  • —. 2006. The Civil Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Almond, Gabriel A. 1989 [1980]. “The Intellecutal History of the Civic Culture Concept.” Pp. 1-36 in The Civic Culture Revisited, edited by Almond, Gabriel A., and Sidney Verba. Newbury Park (CA)/London: Sage.
  • Almond, Gabriel A., and Sidney Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
  • —. ed. 1989. The Civic Culture Revisited. Newbury Park (CA)/London: Sage.
  • Amenta, Edwin. 2006. When Movements Matter: The Townsend Plan and the Rise of Social Security. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
  • Amenta, Edwin, and Neal Caren. 2007. “Political Consequences of Social Movements.” Pp. 4466-4470 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by Ritzer, George. Oxford (UK)/Malden (MA): Blackwell.
  • Anheier, Helmut K. 2004. Civil Society: Measurement, Evaluation, Policy. London: Earthscan.
  • Berger, Peter L., and Richard John Neuhaus. 1996 [1977]. To Empower People: From State to Civil Society. Washington (DC): AEI Press.
  • Bermeo, Nancy, and Philip Nord. 2000. Civil Society before Democracy: Lessons from Nineteenth-Century Europe. Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Bobbio, Norberto. 1988. “Gramsci and the Concept of Civil Society.” Pp. 73-100 in Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives, edited by Keane, John. London: Verso.
  • Boyte, Harry C. 2005. Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Chambers, Simone, and Jeffrey Kopstein. 2001. “Bad Civil Society.” Political Theory 29:837-865.
  • —. 2006. “Civil Society and the State.” Pp. 363-381 in The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, edited by Dryzek, John S., Bonnie Honig, and Anne Philips. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Cohen, Jean L., and Andrew Arato. 1992. Civil Society and Political Theory. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press.
  • Colas, Dominique. 1997. Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories. Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press.
  • Dahlgren, Peter. 2009. Media and Political Engagement: Citizens, Communication and Democracy. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Edwards, Bob, Michael W. Foley, and Mario Diani, eds. 2001. Beyond Tocqueville: Civil Society and the Social Capital Debate in Comparative Perspective. Hanover (NH): University Press of New England.
  • Edwards, Michael. 2009 [2004]. Civil Society. Cambridge (UK): Polity Press.
  • Eliasoph, Nina. 1998. Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Mimi Sheller. 1999. “Publics in History.” Theory and Society 28:145-197.
  • Evans, Sara M., and Harry C. Boyte. 1986. Free Spaces: The Sources of Democratic Change in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
  • Gamson, William A. 1990 [1975]. “The Meaning of Success.”in The Strategy of Social Protest. Belmont (CA): Wadsworth.
  • Giugni, Marco, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly, eds. 1999. How Social Movements Matter. Minneapolis (MN): University of Minnesota Press.
  • Hammack, David C., and Steven Heydemann, eds. 2009. Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad. Bloomington (IN): University of Indiana Press.
  • Kalberg, Stephen. 2009. “Max Weber’s Analysis of the Unique American Civic Sphere: Its Origins, Expansion, and Oscillations.” Journal of Classical Sociology 9:117-141.
  • Kaufman, Jason. 2002. For the Common Good?: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Pierson, Paul, and Theda Skocpol, eds. 2007. The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
  • Polletta, Francesca. 1999. “«Free Spaces» in Collective Action.” Theory and Society 28:1-38.
  • Sampson, Robert J., Heather MacIndoe, Doug McAdam, and Simon Weffer-Elizondo. 2005. “Civil Society Reconsidered: The Durable Nature and Community Structure of Collective Civic Action.” American Journal of Sociology 111:673-714.
  • Seligman, Adam B. 1992. The Idea of Civil Society. New York: Free Press. Reprint: Seligman, Adam B. 1995. The Idea of Civil Society. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.
  • Skocpol, Theda. 1997. “The Tocqueville Problem: Civic Engagement in American Democracy. 1996 Presidential Address to the SSHA.” Social Science History 21:455-479.
  • —. 2003. Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life. Norman (OK): University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Skocpol, Theda, and Morris Fiorina, eds. 1999. Civic Engagement in American Democracy. Washington (DC): Brookings Institution Press.
  • Taylor, Charles. 1990. “Modes of Civil Society.” Public Culture 3:95-118.
  • Tilly, Charles. 1999. “From Interactions to Outcomes in Social Movements.” Pp. 253-270 in How Social Movements Matter, edited by Giugni, Marco, Doug McAdam, and Charles Tilly. Minneapolis (MN): University of Minnesota Press.
  • —. 2005. “Do Unto Others.” [2001] Pp. 45-70 in Identities, Boundaries, And Social Ties. Boulder (CO): Paradigm Publishers.
  • —. 2005. Trust and Rule. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • —. 2007. “Grudging Consent.” The American Interest Vol. 3, No. 2, Sept-Oct. Reprint: Tilly, Charles. 2009. “Grudging Consent.”  SSRC Online Publication, May 27,2009. Includes a section on “Public Politics: Civil Society and Democracy Revisited.”
  • Verba, Sidney, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry Brady. 1995. Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press.
  • Warren, Mark E. 2000. Democracy and Association. Princeton (NJ): Princeton University Press.


Citizenship Studies

Comparative and historical literature on the rights and obligations of citizens

  • Hanagan, Michael P., and Charles Tilly, eds. 1999. Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States. Lanham (MD): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Isin, Engin Fahri, and Bryan S. Turner. 2002. “Citizenship Studies: An Introduction.” Pp. 1-10 in Handbook of Citizenship Studies, edited by Isin, Engin Fahri, and Bryan S. Turner. London: Sage.
  • Janoski, Thomas. 1998. Citizenship and Civil Society: A Framework of Rights and Obligations in Liberal, Traditional, and Social Democratic Regimes. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
  • Kivisto, Peter, and Thomas Faist. 2007. Citizenship: Discourse, Theory, and Transnational Prospects. Malden (MA)/Oxford (UK): Blackwell.
  • Marshall, Thomas H. 1992. “Citizenship and Social Class.” [1950] Pp. 3-51 in Citizenship and Social Class. London: Pluto.
  • Somers, Margaret R. 2008. Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press.
  • Tilly, Charles. 2005. “Why worry about Citizenship?” Pp. 187-198 in Identities, Boundaries, And Social Ties. Boulder (CO): Paradigm Publishers.