Big Fights: Competition between Poor People's Social Movement Organizations
基于全国调查和访谈,研究发现穷人社会运动组织之间存在地盘和资源竞争,以及组织层面的竞争,且竞争压力大于合作。
Using a national survey and interviews with organizers, the authors find two broad areas of competition between social movement organizations (SMOs). Territorial competition focuses on turf and resources. Organizational competition comprises recruitment of staff leadership styles, definition of issues, training strategies, and recruitment of members. In this study of poor people's SMOs, the authors find that competition differs between SMOs in national federations and those that are independent, local groups. Further, they find that competition, rather than cooperation, is the prevailing pressure on SMOs.