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Bottom-Up Activism: A Local Political Strategy for Higher Policy Change

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  • Lori Riverstone-Newell

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In recent decades, local governments in the United States have repeatedly turned to activism to protest higher government policies, or to generate policy movement in an expanding array of domestic and foreign policy areas. There has been little scholarly effort, however, to categorize the behaviors of local activism or to understand why it occurs. This conceptual article introduces local activism as a political strategy comprised of several progressively aggressive behaviors. A typology for these activist behaviors is suggested and the potential goals and motivations of local activists explored, along with recent changes to the intergovernmental environment that may have provided both cause and political incentive for local activism. Copyright 2012, Oxford University Press.

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  • Lori Riverstone-Newell, 2012. "Bottom-Up Activism: A Local Political Strategy for Higher Policy Change," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 42(3), pages 401-421, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:publus:v:42:y:2012:i:3:p:401-421
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    1. John C. Morris & William A. Gibson & William M. Leavitt & Shana C. Jones, 2014. "Collaborative Federalism and the Emerging Role of Local Nonprofits in Water Quality Implementation," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, CSF Associates Inc., vol. 44(3), pages 499-518.
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    3. Katja Biedenkopf, 2017. "Gubernatorial entrepreneurship and United States federal-state interaction: The case of subnational regional greenhouse gas emissions trading," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 35(8), pages 1378-1400, December.

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