Interactions Between Social Movements and US Political Parties

In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 16, Heft 5, S. 587-607

Abstract

Interactions between US political parties and social movements range from those that emphasize closeness to those that seek to preserve distance. Although previously unrecognized in organizational analysis, these strategies are similar to ones of bridging and buffering. Where they differ both from inter-organizational relations among firms and from among other non-profits, this is due to the importance movements attach to autonomy, manifested in their antagonistic reactions to political parties and rooted in the importance they attach to ideology.