Over the last decade there has been an increased focus on social movement outcomes. This attention has led to calls for the improvement of our theoretical and conceptual arguments. Nevertheless, trying to assess the impact of social movement efforts resulted mainly in a narrow specification of outcome variables, generally clearly tied to the express claims of at least some component of a social movement. I suggest that a to know how social movement effect social change requires looking across movement and policy areas and extending the time frame of analysis. As such, this article aims to be provocative and to identify new opportunities for empirical investigations