Transnational Effects on Social Movement Success.

This paper begins with an examination of how social movement success may be operationalized in a comparative context and then considers the impact of transnational networks on two social movements' success levels. Activists in the Indian women's movement have access to a powerful network of global feminists but too often find themselves frustrated with the relationships. A conservative religious movement in India finds itself with access to a small but wealthy diaspora network which is supportive without smothering national level initiatives. These two movements and their transnational networks demonstrate the complex ways in which the supranational environment affects social movement success and failure. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]