Social movement organizations depended on economic expansion and state funding.

Evidence

The political scientist Thomas Ferguson notes that “the deterioration of the network of community groups generated in the course of the struggles over the rights of blacks, women, and poor” resulted in part from the receding economic tide. These groups had “flourished in the turbulent 1960s, when the economy was expanding and substantial financial assistance was available from the government and large foundations.” In the following decades, little resistance was to be expected from that quarter. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 138

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State growth shifted revolutionary coalitions from direct to indirect organizational forms — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1016; Black political advancement depended on protest and own-group organization. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3355; Expellee organizations shifted from socioeconomic to foreign-policy demands as prosperity rose. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 26
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: State growth shifted revolutionary coalitions from direct to indirect organizational forms — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1016; Black political advancement depended on protest and own-group organization. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 3355; Expellee organizations shifted from socioeconomic to foreign-policy demands as prosperity rose. — Pertti Ahonen, Domestic Constraints on West German…, 26