DOUG IMIG

 

Department of Political Science

The Urban Child Institute

University of Memphis

600 Jefferson Avenue

Memphis, TN 38152

Memphis, TN

901-678-3369 (office) ▪ 901-678-2983 (fax)

 

Dimig@Memphis.edu

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

THE URBAN CHILD INSTITUTE, Memphis, TN.

  • Senior Policy Fellow, 2005-2007

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS

·         Professor, Department of Political Science, 2004-present

o        Research and teaching interests include social movements, nonprofit advocacy, public policy and citizen participation in the U.S. and Western Europe.

  • Associate Professor, Political Science, 1998-2004
  • Director, the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, 2000-2004

 

THE UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS

  • Department Chair: Public Administration and Health Care Administration, 1996-97
  • Associate Professor (tenured 1996): Public Administration, 1996-98
  • Assistant Professor: Political Science & Public Administration, 1990-96

 

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

  • Visiting Scholar, Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, 1993-95; 1997-98
  • Research Affiliate, Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs 1995-2000.

 

EDUCATION

 

DUKE UNIVERSITY: Ph.D. 1991, M.A. 1986, Political Science

 

SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND: B.A. 1984, Social Science

 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH FOCUS

 

Building and Sustaining a Culture of Voice for Children (The Urban Child Institute, 2005-2007). This project will produce reliable information on children’s policy, identify best practices for advocacy and policy change, and share that research with groups interested in improving the condition of children in order to build and sustain a wide-reaching culture of political voice for children.

 

American Social Movements for Children (The William T. Grant Foundation, grant # 2541, 2004-2006; with additional support from The Urban Institute, The Grantsmakers for Children, Youth and Families, University of Memphis). This project investigates the ways in which children become politically salient in the United States, how activists and advocates respond to political opportunities in their efforts to advance political agendas for children, and how those agendas change over time.

 

PUBLICATIONS (Selected)

 

Books

 

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow, eds. Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe. 2001. Boulder CO: Rowman and Littlefield Press.

 

Poverty and Power: The Political Representation of Poor Americans 1996. Lincoln, Nebraska: The University of Nebraska Press.

Ø      Outstanding Book Award, Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, 1997.

 

Articles and Book Chapters

 

“Building a Social Movement for America’s Children: What Explains the Glaring Gap between Public Concern and Political Action when it comes to Children’s Well-being?” Accepted. Journal of Children and Poverty.

“Finding the European Public in Collective Action, reflections on ‘The Europeanisation of Protests: A Typology and some Empirical Evidence.’ Prepared for Beate Kohler-Koch and Berthold Rittberger (eds.) Debating the Democratic Legitimacy of the European Union. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Maria Trif and Doug Imig. Accepted. “Demanding to be heard: Social movements and the European public sphere.” in Ruud Koopmans and Paul Statham (eds.), Developing the European Public Sphere.

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow. 2003. "Politischer Protest im europaischen Mehrebenensystem" Pp: 121-149 in Markus Jachtenfuchs and Beate Kohler-Koch (eds.). Europaische Integration (2. Auflage). Opladen: Leske and Budrich.

“Contestation in the Streets: European Protest and the Emerging Euro-polity.” 2002. Comparative Political Studies. 35(8) October: 914-933.

---Also published in European Integration and Political Conflict, Gary Marks and Marco Steenbergen (eds.), 2004. Cambridge University Press: 216-234.

John Clapp, Doug Imig and Thom Reilly. 2001. “Creating Opportunities for Authentic Citizen Involvement: Neighborhood Services in the Las Vegas Valley,” Journal of Applied Social Sciences Spring/Summer (25.2).

“Mobilizing Parents and Communities for Children.” 2001. Who Speaks for America’s Children? The Role of Child Advocates in Public Policy. (Carol J. DeVita and Rachel Mosher-Williams, eds.) Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press: 191-207).

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow. 2001. “Studying Contention in an Emerging Polity.” Chapter 1 in Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe. (Imig and Tarrow eds.) Boulder CO: Rowman and Littlefield.

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow. 2001. “Mapping the Europeanization of Contentious Politics.” Chapter 2 in Contentious Europeans: Protest and Politics in an Integrating Europe. (Imig and Tarrow eds.) Boulder CO: Rowman and Littlefield.

-- Also published as “Una Mappa Dell’Europeizzazione dei Conflitte: Un’Analisi Quantitativa” in Quaderni di Scienza Politica, December, 2002.

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow. 2000. “Political Contention in a Europeanising Polity.” West European Politics. (23:4) 73-93.

-- Also published as Chapter 4 in Europeanised Politics? European Integration and National Political Systems, edited by Klaus H. Goetz and Simon Hix. 2001. Portland, OR: Frank Cass.

-- Also published as “La contestation politique dans l’Europe en formation” 2002. L'Action Collective en Europe. (Richard Balme, Didier Chabanet and Vincent Wright, eds.) Paris, France: Presses de Sciences Po: 195-226.

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow. 1999. “The Europeanization of Movements: A New Approach to Transnational Contention,” Social Movements in a Globalizing World.  D. DellaPorta, D. Rucht, and H.Kriesi, eds. Basingstoke: Macmillan: 112-33.

“Presidential Administrations and Political Opportunity.” 1998. Social Movements and American Political Institutions, Anne Costain and Andy McFarland, eds.  Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield Press: 159-70.

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow, 1997. “From Strike to Eurostrike: The Europeanization of Social Movements and the Development of a Euro-Polity,” Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Working Paper No. 97-10, Harvard University. (Also on CLIO: Columbia University International Affairs).

“Advocacy by Proxy: The Children’s Lobby in American Politics,” 1996.  Journal on Children and Poverty.  2: 31-53.

Doug Imig and Jeff Berry. 1996. “Patrons and Entrepreneurs: A Response to Public Interest Group Entrepreneurship and Theories of Group Mobilization.” Political Research Quarterly. 49: 147-54.

Doug Imig and David S. Meyer. 1993. “Political Opportunity and Peace and Justice Advocacy in the 1980s: A Tale of Two Sectors,” Social Science Quarterly, 74: 750-770.

David S. Meyer and Doug Imig. 1993. "Political Opportunity and the Rise and Decline of Interest Group Sectors," Social Science Journal, 30: 253-270.

"Resource Mobilization and Survival Tactics of Poverty Advocacy Groups." 1992.  Western Political Quarterly, 45: 501-520.

David G. Imig and Doug Imig. 1987. "Strengthening and Maintaining the Pool of Qualified Teachers," in Strengthening Teacher Education, ed. C. Peter Magrath and Robert L. Egbert. San Francisco: Jossey‑Bass: 36‑54.

 

Invited Publications

 

Review of A Voice for Nonprofits (by Jeffrey M. Berry and David F. Arons) Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 32(1), December 2004.

“Building a Social Movement for America’s Children” 2004. Hooks Institute Working Paper #04-09. Benhooks.Memphis.edu

“Anti-hunger Campaigns and Coalitions,” 2004. The Encyclopedia of Poverty and Social Welfare in the United States. Alice O’Connor and Gwendolyn Mink, eds. ABC-CLIO.

“The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,” 2004. The Encyclopedia of Poverty and Social Welfare in the United States. Alice O’Connor and Gwendolyn Mink, eds. ABC-CLIO.

Maria Trif and Doug Imig. 2003 “Demanding to be heard: Social movements and the European public sphere.” Cornell University Workshop on Transnational Contention Working Paper 2003-06. http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/sgt2/contention/default.htm

Review of Who Speaks for the Poor? by R. Allen Hays and Declarations of Dependency by Alan Zundel, 2002, for the American Political Science Review, 96(3): 640-41.

“How do Children Become Politically Salient?” 2000. GCYF Insight. Washington DC: Grantsmakers for Children, Youth and Families. (3): 2-3. http://www.gcyf.org/pubs/circles/imig.pdf

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow, “Contentious Europeans: Is There a European Repertoire of Collective Action?” 1999. Columbia University International Affairs On-Line (CLIO).

John Clapp, Doug Imig and Thomas Reilly, “Building Civil Society through Neighborhood Services in Clark County, Nevada,” 1999. PA-Times. 22(2): 6.

Review of Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work, 1999. Mobilization 4: 264-65.

“The Community for Creative Non-Violence,” 1997.  Protest, Power and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women’s Suffrage.  New York: Garland Publishing: 110-112. (APSA Best Book, Transformational Politics 1998.)

Doug Bond and Doug Imig, “Social Power,” 1997.  Protest, Power and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women’s Suffrage.  New York: Garland: 476-479.

Doug Imig and Sidney Tarrow, “The Europeanization of Movements?  Contentious Politics and the European Union, October 1983-March 1995,” 1996, Working Paper #96.3. The Institute for European Studies, Cornell University & Columbia University International Affairs On-Line (CLIO).

Review of Melvin F. Hall’s Poor People’s Social Movement Organizations: The Goal is to Win. 1996. American Political Science Review 90: 428-29.

Co-editor (and author of the Introduction), 1995.  Nonviolent Sanctions Seminar Series, Spring.  Cambridge, MA: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Co-editor (and author of the Introduction), 1994.  Nonviolent Sanctions Seminar Series, Fall.  Cambridge, MA: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

“Poor People’s Movements: Groups and Constituents in a Constricting Interest Sector,” 1993.  Nonviolent Sanctions Seminar Series.  Cambridge MA: Center for International Affairs, Harvard University: 29-36.

 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

 

Public Policy and Public Administration

 

 

Organization Theory (Graduate)

Politics of Poverty and Hunger

Administrative Behavior (Graduate)

Administrative Ethics (Graduate)

Introduction to Public Administration

Urban Politics (Grad/Undergrad)

Issues in Public Leadership (Graduate)

Urban Problems (Grad/Undergrad)

Urban Administration (Graduate)

Public Policy Analysis (Graduate)

 

 

American Politics

 

 

Seminar in American Politics (Graduate)

Politics of the 1960s

Participation in America (Graduate)

Ethnic and Minority Politics

Public Opinion and Political Participation

Political and Social Movements

Introduction to American Politics

Collective Action

Honors American Politics

Political Parties and Interest Groups

State Politics

 

 

 

Comparative Politics

 

 

State Society Relations and Transnational Politics (Graduate)

 

Seminar on Modern Europe