political movements

Political movements are organized efforts by groups of people who share common goals and work collectively to bring about social, cultural, or governmental change.

Unlike political parties, which seek to gain power through elections, movements typically operate outside formal institutions through protests, advocacy, grassroots organizing, and public pressure campaigns.

The civil rights movement transformed American law and society.

Movements may be progressive or conservative, revolutionary or reformist, and range from local community efforts to global phenomena like environmentalism or feminism.