political movement

A political movement is a collective effort by a group of people, often organized around shared ideas or grievances, seeking to influence or change government policies, social structures, or political power.

Observed surface forms (71)

• independence movement ×13
• nationalist movement ×12
• historical movement ×10
• national liberation movement ×8
• reform movement ×7
• anti-colonial movement ×4
• civil disobedience campaign ×4
• feminist movement ×4
• nonviolent protest movement ×4
• political revolution ×4

• youth movement ×4
• Indian independence movement ×3
• Jewish political movement ×3
• communist movement ×3
• counterrevolutionary movement ×3
• national revival movement ×3
• nonviolent resistance movement ×3
• political phenomenon ×3
• political strategy ×3
• revolutionary wave ×3
• separatist movement ×3
• socialist movement ×3
• 19th-century political movement ×2
• climate movement ×2
• counter-revolutionary movement ×2
• global movement ×2
• indigenous rights movement ×2
• revolutionary movement ×2
• student movement ×2
• Christian anarchist movement ×1
• Indian nationalist movement ×1
• Marxist political movement ×1
• White movement authority ×1
• anti-immigrant movement ×1
• antifeminist movement ×1
• autonomist movement ×1
• civil disobedience movement ×1
• civil liberties movement ×1
• colonial political movement ×1
• conservative movement ×1
• dissident movement ×1
• grassroots movement ×1
• historical social movement ×1
• human rights movement ×1
• ideological movement ×1
• interwar political movement ×1
• left-wing movement ×1
• legitimist movement ×1
• liberation movement ×1
• mass civil disobedience campaign ×1
• mass political movement ×1
• mass protest movement ×1
• national independence movement ×1
• peasant movement ×1
• political reform movement ×1
• pro-democracy protest movement ×1
• radical political group ×1
• radical political organisation ×1
• regionalist movement ×1
• right-wing movement ×1
• self-determination movement ×1
• social movement constituency ×1
• social revolution ×1
• socio-political movement ×1
• sociopolitical movement ×1
• software freedom movement ×1
• statehood movement ×1
• totalitarian movement ×1
• transnational political movement ×1
• white supremacist movement ×1
• working-class movement ×1

Instances (176)

• digital rights movement via concept surface "civil liberties movement"
• Enlightenment rationalism via concept surface "historical movement"
• Language Movement in East Bengal
• women's suffrage movement
• Palestinian national movement via concept surface "national liberation movement"
• Palestine Liberation Organization via concept surface "national liberation movement"
• Savio via concept surface "student movement"
  surface form: Free Speech Movement
• New Left
• Solidarity movement
  surface form: Solidarity
• Puerto Rican independence movement
• Arab Spring
• Occupy Wall Street
• French Revolution via concept surface "political revolution"
• Latin American independence movements via concept surface "historical movement"
• Indian independence movement via concept surface "independence movement"
• Fridays for Future via concept surface "climate movement"
• Decembrist revolt
• Patriot (American Revolution) via concept surface "revolutionary movement"
• African National Congress via concept surface "liberation movement"
• Defiance Campaign via concept surface "civil disobedience campaign"
• Italian Risorgimento
• St. Augustine movement via concept surface "nonviolent protest movement"
• Polish October 1956 via concept surface "reform movement"
• Revolutions of 1989 via concept surface "political revolution"
• Fatah via concept surface "nationalist movement"
• Know-Nothing movement
• Tuareg rebellions in Mali via concept surface "separatist movement"
• Women of the Arab Spring via concept surface "social movement constituency"
• McCarthyism via concept surface "political phenomenon"
• Sanation movement
• May Fourth Movement
• New Culture Movement via concept surface "reform movement"
• Viet Minh via concept surface "national liberation movement"
• Vietnamese nationalism via concept surface "independence movement"
• August General Uprising via concept surface "national liberation movement"
• French Royalists
• Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments)
• Kolchak government via concept surface "White movement authority"
• Whites
• White Guard movement via concept surface "counterrevolutionary movement"
• Red Guards via concept surface "mass political movement"
• Cultural Revolution via concept surface "sociopolitical movement"
• free culture movement
• labour movement
• 1848 revolutions via concept surface "revolutionary wave"
• Saffron Revolution via concept surface "pro-democracy protest movement"
• Czech gymnastics (Sokol) via concept surface "nationalist movement"
• 2021 Myanmar anti-coup protests via concept surface "civil disobedience campaign"
• LGBT rights movement
• Māori sovereignty movement