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Presented at 80th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, Apr. 13–16. ABSTRACT: How can political science researchers use citation mapping tools to refine the development of research on complex theoretical concepts? Citation mapping, a powerful research tool commonly used in the natural sciences, is not yet widely used in...
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... is noteworthy that the themes of the clusters in the co-citation map (Figure 3) correspond only partially to the terms co-occurrence map (Figure 1). Labor and community organizing, which are most conspicuous and autonomous in the terms co-occurrence map, are also distinctively apparent in the co-citation maps. ...
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Democracy requires collective action—but not all forms of collective action are the same. Scholars need a more coherent intellectual infrastructure to differentiate distinct forms of collective action and to identify the kinds of collective action that enable democracy. We distinguish between two types of collective action: organizing, which seeks to transform individuals and groups into effective agents who can shape public outcomes, and mobilizing, which seeks to aggregate and articulate preferences in the public sphere with no explicit focus on individual or organizational change. We review work identifying the dimensions of possible transformation at the micro, meso, and macro levels, and existing evidence for it. We urge scholars to study organizing separate from (and in comparison to) mobilizing and suggest possible research strategies and questions. In doing so, we aim to provide a foundation for future research on organizing and its relationship to democracy.
