Publications

Vo, Austin Hoang-Nam, Katherine Furl, Todd Lu, and Neal Caren. Forthcoming. “Perceiving Protest: How Publics View the Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest.” The Sociological Quarterly.

Caren, Neal, Kenneth T. Andrews, and Micah H. Nelson. 2025. “Black lives matter protests and the 2020 Presidential election.” Social Movement Studies 24(3):273–290.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, and Weijun Yuan. 2024. “Beyond the Protest Paradigm: Four Types of News Coverage and America’s Most Prominent Social Movement Organizations.” Sociological Forum 39:296-309.

Yuan, Weijun, Neal Caren, and Edwin Amenta. 2023. “What Drives the News Coverage of US Social Movements?.” Social Forces soad057.

Caren, Neal. 2023. “Four Eras of Studies of Politics and Social Movements in Social Forces.” Social Forces 101(4):1623-1632.

Furl, Katherine, Todd Lu, Austin Hoang-Nam Vo, and Neal Caren. 2023. “Comparing Perceived Disruptiveness and Effectiveness of Protest Tactics.” Socius 9.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, and Weijun Yuan. 2023. “How to Analyze the Influence of Social Movements with QCA.” Research in Social Movements Conflict and Change 47:187-213.

Caren, Neal. 2023. “Right-Wing Protest in the United States, 2017 to 2022.” Socius 9:1-2.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, and Weijun Yuan. 2023. “How to Analyze the Influence of Social Movements With QCA: Combinational Hypotheses, Venn Diagrams, and Movements Making Big News.” Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change 47:187-213.

Amenta, Edwin and Neal Caren. 2022. Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News. Princeton University Press.

Caren, Neal, Kenneth T. Andrews, and Todd Lu. 2020. “Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment.” Annual Review of Sociology 46(1):443-465.

Andrews, Kenneth T, Neal Caren, and Todd Lu. 2020. “Racial, ethnic, and immigration protest during year one of the Trump presidency.” Racialized Protest and the State: Resistance and Repression in a Divided America 208-226.

Andrews, Kenneth T, Neal Caren, and Alyssa Browne. 2018. “Protesting Trump.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 23(4):393-400.

Amenta, Edwin, Kenneth T Andrews, and Neal Caren. 2018. “The Political Institutions, Processes, and Outcomes Movements Seek to Influence.” The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements 447-465.

Caren, Neal, Sarah Gaby, and Catherine Herrold. 2017. “Economic Breakdown and Collective Action.” Social Problems 64(1):133-155.

Perrin, Andrew J, Neal Caren, Asheley C Skinner, Adebowale Odulana, and Eliana M Perrin. 2016. “The unbuilt environment: culture moderates the built environment for physical activity.” BMC public health 16(1):1227.

Gaby, Sarah and Neal Caren. 2016. “The rise of inequality: How social movements shape discursive fields.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 21(4):413-429.

Elliott, Thomas Alan, Edwin Amenta, and Neal Caren. 2016. “Recipes for attention: Policy reforms, crises, organizational characteristics, and the newspaper coverage of the LGBT Movement, 1969–2009.” Sociological Forum 31(4):926-947.

Kadivar, Mohammad Ali and Neal Caren. 2015. “Disruptive Democratization: Contentious Events and Liberalizing Outcomes Globally, 1990–2004.” Social Forces 94(3):975-996.

Perrin, Andrew J, Steven J Tepper, Neal Caren, and Sally Morris. 2014. “Political and cultural dimensions of Tea Party support, 2009–2012.” The Sociological Quarterly 55(4):625-652.

Perrin, Andrew J, Philip N Cohen, and Neal Caren. 2013. “Are children of parents who had same-sex relationships disadvantaged? A scientific evaluation of the no-differences hypothesis.” Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health 17(3):327-336.

Caren, Neal, Kay Jowers, and Sarah Gaby. 2012. “A Social Movement Online Community: Stormfront and the White Nationalist Movement.” Media, Movements, and Political Change 33:163-193.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, and James E Stobaugh. 2012. “Political Reform and the Historical Trajectories of US Social Movements in the Twentieth Century.” Social Forces 90(4):1073-1100.

Gaby, Sarah and Neal Caren. 2012. “Occupy online: How cute old men and Malcolm X recruited 400,000 US users to OWS on Facebook.” Social Movement Studies 11(3-4):367-374.

Caren, Neal, Raj Andrew Ghoshal, and Vanesa Ribas. 2011. “A social movement generation: Cohort and period trends in protest attendance and petition signing.” American Sociological Review 76(1):125-151.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Elizabeth Chiarello, and Yang Su. 2010. “The Political Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:287-307.

Andrews, Kenneth T and Neal Caren. 2010. “Making the News: Movement Organizations, Media Attention, and the Public Agenda.” American Sociological Review 75(6):841-866.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Sheera Joy Olasky, and James E Stobaugh. 2009. “All the movements fit to print: Who, what, when, where, and why SMO families appeared in the New York Times in the twentieth century.” American Sociological Review 74(4):636-656.

Caren, Neal. 2007. “Big city, big turnout? Electoral participation in American cities.” Journal of Urban Affairs 29(1):31-46.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, and Sheera Joy Olasky. 2005. “Age for leisure? Political mediation and the impact of the pension movement on US old-age policy.” American Sociological Review 70(3):516-538.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, and Sheera Joy Olasky. 2005. “newspaper coverage of social movement organizations in the 20th century.” contexts 4(3):48-49.

Caren, Neal and Aaron Panofsky. 2005. “TQCA: A Technique for Adding Temporality to Qualitative Comparative Analysis.” Sociological methods & research 34(2):147-172.

Amenta, Edwin and Neal Caren. 2004. “The Legislative, Organizational, and Beneficiary Consequences of State-Oriented Challengers.” The Blackwell companion to social movements 461-488.

Armato, Michael and Neal Caren. 2002. “Mobilizing the Single-Case Study: Doug McAdam’s Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970.” Qualitative sociology 25(1):93-103.

Amenta, Edwin, Neal Caren, Tina Fetner, and Michael P Young. 2002. “Challengers and states: Toward a political sociology of social movements.” Research in Political Sociology 10:47-83.

Amenta, Edwin, Chris Bonastia, and Neal Caren. 2001. “US social policy in comparative and historical perspective: Concepts, images, arguments, and research strategies.” Annual Review of Sociology 27:213-234.