Social Movements and Their Consequences

People act collectively in democratic and non-democratic regimes to garner strength and to promote mutual issues. Rena Palloff (2) has noted that social change efforts attempt to impact the policymaking process in a number of different ways and at different systemic levels. Palloff (1) described her own activities in the anti-Vietnam war movement at the University of Wisconsin at Madison during the late 1960s and early 1970s as an example of a social movement that ultimately did succeed in affecting and changing public policy. Collective action in this instance was the result of a somewhat spontaneous outpouring of resistance to governmental policy, as it was during the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. as well. Collective, individuals realize that they can make a more effective effort to change policy.

Common interests are not always as "common" as one might think. Today, Benjamin Barber (228) sees environmentalism and the so-called Green Movement as social change efforts having enormous impact upon policymaking. Similarly, Baron and Byrne (214-216) are of the opinion that ongoing

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