The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy

by David Karpf

Book Overview

The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in the past decade and play an increasingly prominent role in citizen political mobilization. At the same time, the organizations that mediate citizen political engagement and sustained collective action are changing. They rely upon modified staff structures and work routines. They employ novel strategies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199898383
• ISBN13: 9780199898381
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"