Background
This project was funded by three related collaborative NSF Awards: you can read a project description on the NSF website. The project is collecting data on several thousand social movement organizations from 1960-1995. The project has three other partners: Ed Amenta, Neal Caren, and Sarah Soule .
Major goals of the project include understanding how organizations like ACLU or National Organization of Women gain visibility, shape social movement trajectories, and influence public opinion.
The project benefited from graduate and undergraduate student researchers from the University of Arizona, some of whom are pictured here:
Meta-data Identifiers from Project for Public Use
We are working toward a public release of all data from the project, but per the project’s DMP, here is information on currently available datasets. The project described below is releasing organization names (ONAMEs), unique numerical identifiers (IDs), aliases that we are aware the organization went by during our period of study (ALIAS), and other incidental notes helpful to disambiguating any given organization from another with a similar or identical ONAME (NOTES). Organizations in this release are drawn from two existing datasets: organizations mentioned in the Dynamics of Collective Action Dataset (DOCA) and organizations followed by the Political Organizations in the News (PONS) dataset. Our hope is that scholars collecting data on social movement organizations in the US will use these identifiers so that data that they collect can be easily merged on to other data released later by our projects and others that also use these identifiers. If people use them consistently, it will become nominal to assimilate new organization data into existing datasets. We are providing the data in two formats:
1) An organizational-level file with no linkages to DOCA in Excel.
2) An organizational-level file with additional fields to append these data to specific DOCA eventids in Stata that the ONAME was reported as being involved.