- Author
- Title
- Consensus social movements
- Subtitle
- Strategic interaction in Dutch LGBTI politics
- Supervisors
- Co-supervisors
- Award date
- 28 May 2021
- Number of pages
- 241
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Abstract
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Relations between social movements and government actors are often understood by scholars and in popular opinion as being grounded in conflict. In this book movement-government relations are instead viewed on a spectrum between conflict and consensus. To redress the imbalanced attention paid to conflictual movement-government relations, this book is focused on the following questions: What constitutes consensus social movement advocacy, how can consensual relations between movement actors and other actors be established, and what implications can consensual advocacy have for activism and the actors involved? To answer those questions, I combine a definition of social movements that can account for consensus with insights from the strategic interaction perspective to study the case of the central social movement organization of the Dutch lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and intersex (LGBTI) social movement, Federatie COC Nederland, and its advocacy, interactions with government actors, and outcomes from the 1960s until 2019. The research is an appraisal of consensus and was not written in praise of consensus. The findings indicate that consensual movement-government relations may result in a movement organization’s goals expanding, resources increasing, and chances of success rising. Such relations may, however, be limited to particular types of political engagement and restricted in the types of successes that they can facilitate. Drawing from the case of consensus between movement and government actors in Dutch LGBTI politics, I argue that, contrary to common expectations, government actors may come to take part in social movements, and movement actors may come to participate in governance.
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/cc522a57-8c30-44fe-9633-ac132dc2491d
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Thesis (complete)
Front matter
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
List of previous publications
Chapter 1: Introduction: Examining consensus in advocacy: The case of the Dutch LGBTI social movement from the 1960s to 2019
Chapter 2: Advocacy beyond identity: The COC’s embrace of a public policy strategy from the 1960s to 1982
Chapter 3: From conflict to consensus: Movement-government relations surrounding the introduction of Dutch public policy on homosexuality from 1982 to 1986
Chapter 4: Cultural corporatism: Gay/lesbian advocacy in the Netherlands and Dutch political culture from 1986 to 1994
Chapter 5: Strategic trade-offs: Movement-government interactions and Dutch gay/lesbian policy from 1986 to 1994
Chapter 6: After accommodation? Inclusion and exclusion of emancipation interests in Dutch ‘democratic corporatism’ during the 1990s
Chapter 7: Consensual movement-government relations: Cooperation and collaboration in Dutch LGBTI politics from 2000 to 2019
Chapter 8: Conclusion: Outcomes of consensual movement-government relations: The transition of the Dutch LGBTI movement from the closet to the cabinet
Appendix 1: List of interviewees
Bibliography
English language summary
Nederlandse samenvatting
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