1. Community Mobilization: Conventional Tactics in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development.
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Schomburg, Madeline Gottlieb
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COMMUNITIES ,PETROLEUM industry ,POLITICAL participation ,GAS extraction ,COMMUNITY involvement ,ORGANIZATIONAL aims & objectives - Abstract
Marginalized individuals are less likely to participate or have their interests represented in political processes than historically privileged individuals. Interest groups are considered the best means to address this gap, but there is little research on the role of interest groups in mobilizing people to participate in political processes and none on marginalized communities in particular. This paper is the first to test hypotheses about organizational strategies used to mobilize vulnerable communities for political participation around unconventional oil and gas policies in California and Colorado. Based on a survey of interest groups in both states, the results show that interest groups working in vulnerable communities do more outside advocacy (i.e., connecting residents to representatives) and use more personal communication methods (i.e., door-to-door canvassing) than interest groups working in historically privileged communities. However, organizational strategies in general are not well predicted by the target community's composition, suggesting that decisions around mobilization strategies are driven by other factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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