Abstract
movements remains a question in considerable dispute in both the political science and sociological literatures. Traditional sociological approaches, which focus on the external conditions necessary for the development of such movements, are unable to account for variations in the fates of similar movements in similar societies.1 In the political science literature, on the other hand, the prevailing assumption that making is an incremental process provides no theoretically compelling rationale for why some social movements are, in fact, capable of producing policy spirals (Lindblom 1959; Jones 1974, 1975). A relatively new perspective in sociological research offers some promise in this regard. Resource mobilization literature stresses the
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