Understanding Activist Leadership Effort in the Movement Opposing Drinking and Driving

Autor/inn/en	Dorius, Cassandra R.; McCarthy, John D.
Titel	Understanding Activist Leadership Effort in the Movement Opposing Drinking and Driving
Quelle	In: Social Forces, 90 (2011) 2, S.453-473 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0037-7732
DOI	10.1093/sf/sor035
Schlagwörter	Delivery Systems; Leadership Responsibility; Activism; Alcohol Abuse; Motor Vehicles; Traffic Safety; Social Change; Models; Gender Differences; Victims; Social Support Groups; Predictor Variables; Administration + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Auslieferung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Motor vehicle; Kraftwagen; Sozialer Wandel; Analogiemodell; Geschlechterkonflikt; Victim; Opfer; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Prädiktor; Verwaltung
Abstract	Why do some social movement leaders work harder than others? And, how does gender affect the patterns we uncover? Utilizing historical case study evidence of local chapters in the emerging movement opposing drinking and driving we are able to develop and test theoretical expectations about predictors of weekly effort among MADD and RID leaders. Taken together, our model explains 45 percent of the variation in leadership effort. We find bureaucratic complexity and victim support activities are more powerful predictors of effort than are individual leader characteristics, although all are important. Further analysis reveals that gender almost wholly conditions the strong effect of bureaucratic complexity on leadership effort so that increasingly complex chapter structures are associated with substantial increases in work hours for women but not men. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10