The Politics Of Social Protest

Author : J. Craig Jenkins,Bert Klandermans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1857282965

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This book examines why citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available. It analyzes the relationship between protest movements and the formal political system.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate sociology and politics students on courses in political sociology, comparative politics and social movements. Also of strong interest within social psychology, social anthropology, contemporary history and social geography.

Author : J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452901414

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Author : Craig Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0203992679

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The Politics Of Social Protest by Craig Jenkins Pdf

This book examines why citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available. It analyzes the relationship between protest movements and the formal political system.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate sociology and politics students on courses in political sociology, comparative politics and social movements. Also of strong interest within social psychology, social anthropology, contemporary history and social geography.

Author : Marco Giugni,Maria T. Grasso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108475907

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Street Citizens by Marco Giugni,Maria T. Grasso Pdf

Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

Author : Charles F. Andrain,David Ernest Apter
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814706343

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Political Protest and Social Change by Charles F. Andrain,David Ernest Apter Pdf

Analyzes the reciprocal impact of cultural beliefs, sociopolitical structures, and individual behaviors on protests throughout the world, examining such questions as why people participate in protest activities, what compels them to participate in non- violent movements, and what leads them to engage in revolutionary protest. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Howard Ramos,Kathleen Rodgers
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774829182

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Protest and Politics by Howard Ramos,Kathleen Rodgers Pdf

The Tea Party. The Occupy Movement. Idle No More. Around the world, popular social movements are challenging the status quo. Yet most democracies are seeing a decline in voter turnout. Protest and Politics examines this shift in political participation, as well as the blurring of social movements and mainstream politics, through the lens of the social movement society thesis. Analyzing historical and contemporary social movements in Canada in comparison to those in the US and in the transnational sphere, the authors argue that our understanding of the boundaries between politics and protest needs to evolve.

Author : Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271047843

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Land, Protest, and Politics by Gabriel Ondetti Pdf

Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.

Author : Moises Arce,Roberta Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1773854364

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Protest and Democracy by Moises Arce,Roberta Rice Pdf

In 2011, political protests sprang up across the world. In the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, the United States unlikely people sparked or led massive protest campaigns from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street. These protests were made up of educated and precariously employed young people who challenged the legitimacy of their political leaders, exposed a failure of representation, and expressed their dissatisfaction with their place in the aftermath of financial and economic crisis. This book interrogates what impacts--if any--this global protest cycle had on politics and policy and shows the sometimes unintended ways it continues to influence contemporary political dynamics throughout the world. Proposing a new framework of analysis that calls attention to the content and claims of protests, their global connections, and the responsiveness of political institutions to protest demands, this is one of the few books that not only asks how protest movements are formed but also provides an in-depth examination of what protest movements can accomplish. With contributions examining the political consequences of protest, the roles of social media and the internet in protest organization, left- and right-wing movements in the United States, Chile's student movements, the Arab Uprisings, and much more this collection is essential reading for all those interested in the power of protest to shape our world.

Author : Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134014392

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Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements by Karl-Dieter Opp Pdf

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic concepts like political opportunities or identity are not clearly defined. It is further often a matter of interpretation what factors are supposed to affect which phenomena. The first aim is therefore to provide a detailed introduction to and a clear restatement of the theories. Only then is it possible to assess and improve them. (2) For each theory the major strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and various modifications and extensions are suggested. (3) Building on these analyses, it is shown how the theories can be integrated into a single theoretical paradigm: the structural-cognitive model.

Author : David S. Meyer,Sidney G. Tarrow
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0847685411

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The Social Movement Society by David S. Meyer,Sidney G. Tarrow Pdf

Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealing perspectives on the effectiveness of social protest.

Author : Doug McAdam,John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521485169

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Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements by Doug McAdam,John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald Pdf

Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements.

Author : David Ernest Apter,Nagayo Sawa
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674009215

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Against the State by David Ernest Apter,Nagayo Sawa Pdf

Reconstructing the dramatic struggle surrounding the building of the New Tokyo (Narita) International Airport near Sanrizuka, this scrutiny of modern protest politics dispels the myth of corporate Japan's unassailable success, while showing that the problems of the Narita situation are also endemic to other industrialized countries.

Author : J.Craig Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 128014503X

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The Politics of Social Protest by J.Craig Jenkins Pdf

This book examines why citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available. It analyzes the relationship between protest movements and the formal political system.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate sociology and politics students on courses in political sociology, comparative politics and social movements. Also of strong interest within social psychology, social anthropology, contemporary history and social geography.

Author : David S. Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political activists
ISBN : 0199937133

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The Politics of Protest by David S. Meyer Pdf

The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American politics. Meyer shows that protest movements, an integral part of our nation's history from the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, are hardly confined to the distant past. He argues that protest movements in America reflect and influence mainstream politics and that in order to understand our political system--and our social and political world--we need to pay attention to protest. The Politics of Protest opens with a short history of social movements in the United States, beginning with the development of the American Republic and outlining how the American constitutional design invites protest movements to offer continual challenges. It then discusses the social impulse to protest, considers the strategies and tactics of social movements, looks at the institutional response to protest, and finally examines the policy ramifications. Each chapter includes a brief narrative of a key movement that illustrates the topic covered in that chapter. New to This Edition * A new chapter on media and movements (Chapter 6: Protest and Communication: New and Old Media) that examines how media has changed in the past two decades, focusing in particular on online activism * New discussions on such topics as the election of a black president, the emergence of the Tea Party movement, and the intensifying conflict regarding immigration policy * More material on the successes of the gay and lesbian movement in promoting policy changes to marriage at the state level and in national military service

Author : David S. Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political activists
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127451222

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The Politics of Protest by David S. Meyer Pdf

Offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American politics.