Power in Movement : Social Movements and Contentious Politics
ISBN: 9780521155724 | 052115572X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 2/4/2011
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This book offers an interpretation of the power of social movements that emphasizes their effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions, and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, transnational diffusion, and the new media of communication.
Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the F... MORE
Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the F... MORE
| List of Figures | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Contentious Politics and Social Movements | p. l6 |
| The Birth of The Modern Social Movement | |
| Modular Collective Action | p. 37 |
| Print and Association | p. 57 |
| States, Capitalism, and Contention | p. 71 |
| Powers in Movement | |
| Acting Contentiously | p. 95 |
| Networks and Organizations | p. 119 |
| Making Meanings | p. 140 |
| Threats, Opportunities, and Regimes | p. 157 |
| Dynamics of Contention | |
| Mechanisms and Processes of Contention | p. 183 |
| Cycles of Contention | p. 195 |
| Struggling to Reform | p. 215 |
| Transnational Contention | p. 234 |
| Conclusions: The Future of Social Movements | p. 259 |
| Sources | p. 275 |
| Index | p. 315 |
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Sidney G. Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University.
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