Social movements and the new state: the fate of pro-democracy organizations when democracy is won

216 Pages·2012·1.313 MB·English

by  Grodsky, Brian K

Social Movements and the New State

Social Movements and the New State
The Fate of Pro- Democracy Organizations
When Democracy Is Won
Brian K. Grodsky
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
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Grodsky, Brian K., 1974– author.
Social movements and the new state : the fate of pro-democracy organizations
when democracy is won / Brian K. Grodsky.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8047-8231-9 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8047-8232-6 (pbk. :
alk. paper)
1. Social movements—Political aspects—Case studies.
2. Democratization—Case studies. 3. Democracy—Case studies. I. Title.
HM881.G76 2012
303.48'4—dc23
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Typeset by Westchester Book Group in 11/13.5 Adobe Garamond
I would like to dedicate this book to Maya and Ania,
whose incredible patience made it all come together.

Contents
Ac know ledg ments ix
1 Introduction: How Many Lives Does a Social
Movement Have? 1
2 From Mobilization to Victory: Demo cratization
and the Fate of Social- Movement Organizations 11
3 From Solidarity to Isolation: How Poland’s
Pro- Democracy Movement Lost in the Transition 35
4 From Elation to Frustration: The Tale of
South Africa’s Two Or gan i za tion al Giants 71
5 The Struggle of NGOs After the Rose Revolution 103
6 Implications and Conclusions 133
Appendices
Appendix 1: Methodology 163
Appendix 2: Georgia Interviews 168
Appendix 3: Poland Interviews 170
Appendix 4: South Africa Interviews 173
Notes 177
Bibliography 181
Index 199

Ac know ledg ments
I WANT TO USE THE OPENING LINES OF THIS BOOK to thank
most of all the approximately 150 interviewees on whose words much of
this study is based. Many of these individuals gave hours of their time
recalling sometimes personally painful experiences. Without their will-
ingness to tell these stories, this book would have been impossible to write.
I would also like to thank several outstanding scholars who proved
extremely helpful during various stages of this manuscript. I reserve a
special thank-y ou for Doug McAdam, whose Freedom Summer was one
of the inspirations for this work. Doug generously took the time to sit
down with this manuscript and provide me with invaluable insights that
resulted in a much stronger book. I am also indebted to Doug for his
kind advice in steering this manuscript through the publishing pro cess.
Early on, I had the great fortune and pleas ure to participate in
CUNY’s Politics and Protest Workshop (September 2010), where I re-
ceived excellent feedback from participants, especially org an ize r Jim
Jasper and Vince Boudreau. Th is workshop was an enormous asset, and
I hope to someday be able to repay those who made it so illuminating
for me. I am also very grateful to Valerie Bunce, Ron Aminzade, David
Meyer, Sidney Tarrow, Graeme Robertson, Anna Grzymala-B usse, Lin-
coln Mitchell, Scott Radnitz, Tsveta Petrova, Cliff ord Bob, Brian Love-
man, and Philip Oxhorn for their tremendously helpful comments on
various chapters and early feedback on methodological issues, as well as
the two anonymous reviewers from Stanford University Press. And I am
thankful for the research assistance of Matthew Czekaj.
A study of this sort necessitates both extensive travel and a signifi -
cant amount of detective work to locate long- lost activists, and I was