Gateways to Political Mobilization

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

This panel examines the various ways in which people can be mobilized to take political action and the strategies used by organizations and social movements to promote engagement. Voluntary associations and nonprofits can provide a gateway to political participation even when their aims are not overtly political. Individuals will weigh a range of factors before deciding to join an organization or take part in a protests and political events.

Sub Unit

• Division 58: Civic Engagement

Individual Presentations

• Banal Radicalism - Oded Marom, University of Southern California

• Who Participates Where? VSO Participation in the Advanced Industrial Democracies - Anthony Sealey, University of Pennsylvania; Femida Handy, University of Pennsylvania

Chair

• Jeffrey F. Kraus Wagner College

Discussant

• Charles L. Mitchell Grambling State University