Title: POS - Political Opportunity Structure | AcronymFinder
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What does POS stand for?
POS stands for Political Opportunity Structure
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Content: the confluence of an active grassroots rank-and-file insurgency, the women's movement in the local region, and civil rights activism that supported the emergence of multiracial gender solidarity within the Caucus. Resource based mobilization theories, political opportunity structure theories emphasizing institutions' importance in shaping political demands and policies, and ideological theories stressing the significance of accepted ideas regarding government's role in public policy creation are examined. Necessary topics addressed include new social movements, political opportunity structures, institutionalization of the environmental movement and the recent resurgence of grass roots environmentalism. The political opportunity structure approach (5) is an important analytical concept in social movement research. Tarrow (1995: 18) describes the political opportunity structure as the `consistent -- but not necessarily formal, permanent or national -- dimensions of the political environment which either encourage or discourage people from using collective action'.