Narrative capacity refers to the ability of the movement to frame its story on its own terms, to spread its worldview.10 We might think of this as “persuasion” as well as “legitimacy”—key ideological pillars of any social movement. Disruptive capacity describes whether a movement can interrupt the regular operations of a system of authority. Finally, electoral or institutional capacity refers to a movement’s ability to keep politicians from being elected, reelected, or nominated unless they adopt and pursue policies friendly to the social movement’s agenda, or the ability to force changes in
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