David S. Meyer is professor of sociology, political science, and urban planning and policy at the University of California, Irvine. … His Andrew Carnegie Fellows project, “Against Apocalypse: Protest, Policy, and Polarization,” considers how social movements and protest campaigns polarize to make political progress, but polarization can undermine the capacity of government to make policy effectively. By looking at both historical and contemporary protest movements, Meyer assesses strategies that activists and authorities can employ to manage the polarization that successful movements respond to and create, offering prescriptions to political organizers inside and outside government.

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