Books
Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
By Marshall Ganz
Oxford University Press from 2010What a Mighty Power We Can Be: African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality
By Theda Skocpol, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz
Princeton University Press from 2006Latest Articles
Top ↑Reclaiming Civil Society
By Marshall Ganz, Art Reyes III
Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2019How to Organize to Win
By Marshall Ganz
Rebuilding the democratic infrastructure is too important to leave up to the consultocracy.
The Nation from 2018The Practice of Social Movement Leadership
By Marshall Ganz & Liz McKenna
Mobilizing Ideas from 2017Doves, Serpents and the Iowa Primary
By Marshall Ganz
Huffington Post from 2016What Hillary Clinton Can Learn From Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump
By Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han
The Nation from 2016How the New Civil Rights Movement Can Build on the Lessons of the Old
By Marshall Ganz
Moyers & Company from 2016Here’s how history is shaping the #studentblackout movement
By Marshall Ganz
The Conversation from 2015Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?
By Marshall Ganz
The Nation from 2014Not the Cesar Chavez I Knew
By Marshall Ganz
View video of panel here: Verónica Martini, Pablo Cruz, Diego Luna, and Marshall Ganz discuss Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez
The Nation from 2014We can be actors, not just spectators
By Marshall Ganz
New Statesman from 2012Organizing as a Campaign Strategy
By Marshall Ganz
Mobilizing Ideas from 2012How Obama lost his voice, and how he can get it back
By Marshall Ganz
Los Angeles Times from 2010Why Stories Matter: The art and craft of social change
By Marshall Ganz
Sojourners from 2009We Have the Hope. Now Where’s the Audacity?
By Peter Dreier, Marshall Ganz
The Washington Post from 2009The New Generation of Organizers
By Marshall Ganz, Kate Hilton
Shelter Force from 2009Hillel’s Three Questions: A Call to Leadership
By Marshall Ganz
Sh'ma from 2007Organizing for Democratic Renewal
By Marshall Ganz
Talking Points Memo from 2007Staying Connected to Our Moral Sources
By Marshall Ganz
Talking Points Memo from 2007What is Organizing
By Marshall Ganz
Social Policy from 2002Motor Voter or Motivated Voter: The Impact of the 1993 Voter Registration Reform Act on American Poli-tics
By Marshall Ganz
The American Prospect from 2001Voters in the Crosshairs: How Markets and Technology are Destroying Politics
By Marshall Ganz
The American Prospect from 1994Academic Journals
Top ↑Advocating for Improved Health Care for Older Canadians: What We Can Learn from Applying the Marshall Ganz Advocacy Framework
By Amina Jabbar MSc, MD, FRCPC; Frank Monar, MSc, MDCM, FRCPC; Samir Sinha, MD, DPhil, FRCPC, AGSF
Canadian Geriatrics Society from 2019Social Entrepreneurship as Field Encroachment: How a Neoliberal Social Movement Constructed a New Field
By Marshall Ganz, Jason Spicer, Tamara Kay
Socio-Economic Review from 2019The Relationship of Leadership Quality to the Political Presence of Civic Associations
By Hahrie Han, Kenneth T. Andrews, Marshall Ganz, Matthew Baggetta, and Chaeyoon Lim
Perspectives on Politics, Volume 9, Issue 01, pp. 45-59 from 2011Leadership, Membership, and Voice: Civic Associations That Work
By Kenneth T. Andrews, Marshall Ganz, Matthew Baggetta, Hahrie Han and Chaeyoon Lim
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 115, No. 4., pp. 1191-1242 from 2010Duty to the Race: African-American Fraternals and the Right to Organize
By Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz
Social Science History, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 485-534 from 2004Resources and Resourcefulness: Leadership, Strategy and Organization in the Unionization of California Agriculture
By Marshall Ganz
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, No. 4, pp. 1003-1062 from 2000A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
By Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz and Ziad Munson
American Political Science Review, Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 527-546 from 2000Book Chapters
Top ↑Bringing Leadership Back In
By Marshall Ganz, Elizabeth McKenna
The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Social Movements, Second Edition from 2018Learning to Lead: Pedagogy in Practice
By Marshall Ganz, Emily Lin
Chapter 22 in the Handbook for Teaching Leadership. Ed. Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana and Scott Snook. (SAGE Publications), p.353-267 from 2011Public Narrative, Collective Action, and Power
By Marshall Ganz
Chapter 18 in Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action, Edited by Sina Odugbemi and Taeku Lee (Washington, DC: The World Bank), p. 273-289 from 2011Learning Civic Leadership: Leader Skill Development in the Sierra Club
By Matthew Baggetta, Chaeyoon Lim, Kenneth T. Andrews, Marshall Ganz, and Hahrie Han
Interest Group Politics. Ed. Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis. (CQ Press), p. 110-138 from 2010Leading Change: Leadership, Organization and Social Movements
By Marshall Ganz
Chapter 19 in the Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, Edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana (Danvers: Harvard Business School Press), p. 509-550 from 2010Thoughts on Power, Organization and Leadership
By Marshall Ganz
Chapter in Dispatches from the Religious Left: The Future of Faith and Politics in America, Edited by Frederick Clarkson (Brooklyn, New York: Ig Publishing), p. 141-152 from 2009Why David Sometimes Wins: Strategic Capacity in Social Movement
By Marshall Ganz
Chapter 10 in The Psychology of Leadership: New Perspectives and Research, Edited by David M. Messick and Roderick M. Kramer, (Erlbaum Press), p. 209-238 from 2004Against the Tide: Projects and Pathways of the New Generation of Union Leaders, 1984-2001
By Marshall Ganz, Kim Voss, Teresa Sharpe, Carl Somers, George Strauss
Chapter 6 in Rebuilding Labor: Organizing and Organizers in the New Union Movement, Edited by Ruth Milkman and Kim Voss, (ILR Press, Cornell University Press), p. 150-194 from 2004Organizing as Leadership
By Marshall Ganz
in Encyclopedia of Leadership, Edited by George Goethals, Georgia Sorenson, and James MacGregor Burns, (SAGE Publications), p. 1134-1144 from 2004How Americans Became Civic
By Theda Skocpol, Marshall Ganz, Ziad Munson,Bayliss Camp, Michele Swers, and Jennifer Oser
Chapter in Civic Engagement in American Democracy (Brookings Institute Press and Russell Sage Foundation), p. 27-80 from 1999Reconnecting People and Politics
By Margaret Weir, Marshall Ganz
Chapter in The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics, Edited by Stanley B. Greenberg and Theda Skocpol, (Yale University Press), p. 149-171 from 1997Working Papers
Top ↑Public Narrative: Self, Us & Now
By Marshall Ganz
from 2011Organizing Obama: Campaign, Organization, Movement
By Marshall Ganz
Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco from 2009Hope in the Story of Hagar, Sarah, and Abraham
By Marshall Ganz
from 2008Reflections on the Binding of Isaac
By Marshall Ganz
from 2006Left Behind: Social Movements, Parties, and the Politics of Reform
By Marshall Ganz
Presented at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal from 2006Reflections on Faith and Politics
By Marshall Ganz
from 2003The Power of Story in Social Movements
By Marshall Ganz
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA. from 2001Kennedy School Cases
Top ↑Stand Up with the Teacher Campaign: an experience of collective voice in Irbid – Jordan
By Nisreen Haj Ahmad
This case study describes almost two years of collective action of the “Stand Up with the Teacher” campaign, designed to build the power of female teachers working at private schools in Jordan in order to enable them to demand their labour rights.
International Labour Organization from 2017