POL 344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marxist Feminism, Gender Mainstreaming, Bureaucracy

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 344
• Professor: Davidson- Schmich Louise

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Social movement looks at entire puzzle, while one single, descriptive. Parties & representatives work within institutional constraints, need votes to. Interest groups want to work through established political system, but less. Parties and representatives can"t focus on just one thing like a social movement. Clubs within colleges, interest groups, etc. work within women"s movement. Ex of another movement is the environmental movement. Weldon says reason those in power change things is due to pressure from the outside. Movements are more informal, work outside of government (unlike a representative or political party which is formal, within government) 1. e. representative doesn"t know everything about a movement & what"s important. 1. h. or interest group, they need to have positions on many issues. 1. m. more so they try to change what the general population thinks or does. Weldon argues that social movements doing this non-political work will filter up to representatives, political parties then caring about these issues.