Research
Sarah A. Soule's research examines state and organizational-level policy change and diffusion and the role social movements have on these processes. Current projects include an NSF-funded analysis of advocacy group effects on environmental legislation in the US; an analysis of how protest impacts multi-national firm-level decisions regarding divestment in Burma; several papers related to protest policing in the US; and an analysis of how protest affects stock prices of targeted firms. In 2004, she published The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements (with David Snow and Hanspeter Kreisi). Recent published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Annual Review of Sociology.
Publications
Below is a sample of publications. Please see CV for a full list.
Brayden King and Sarah A. Soule. Social Movements as Extra-Institutional Entrepreneurs: The Effect of Protest on Stock Price Returns. Administrative Science Quarterly 52(3):413-442
Brayden King, Keith Gunnar Bentele, and Sarah A. Soule. Congressional Agenda-Setting and Fluctuating Attention to Civil and Political Rights, 1960-1987. Social Forces 86(1): 137-163.
Sarah A. Soule and Brayden King. "The Impact of Social Movements at Stages of the Policy Process: The Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982." American Journal of Sociology 111(6): 1871-1909.
Jennifer Earl and Sarah A. Soule. Seeing Blue: Going Behind the Baton to Explain Policing at Public Protest Events. Mobilization 11(2): 145-164.
Sarah A. Soule and Jennifer Earl. A Movement Society Revisited: The Character of American Social Protest, 1960-1986. Mobilization 10(3):345-64.
Sarah A. Soule and Susan Olzak. When Do Movements Matter? The Politics of Contingency and the Equal Rights Amendment. American Sociological Review 69: 473-497.
Yvonne Zylan and Sarah A. Soule. Ending Welfare As We Know It (Again): Welfare State Retrenchment, 1989-1995. Social Forces 79(2):623-652.
Sarah A. Soule and Yvonne Zylan. Runaway Train? The Diffusion of State-Level Reform in ADC/AFDC Eligibility Requirements, 1950 -1967. American Journal of Sociology 103(3): 733-762.