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Islamic Mobilization: Social Movement Theory and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
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The authors examines the emergence and growth of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the 1930s through the 1950s, outlining and empirically evaluating possible explanations for the group's rise and decline.Abstract:
This article examines the emergence and growth of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt from the 1930s through the 1950s. It begins by outlining and empirically evaluating possible explanations for the o...read more
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Why Men Rebel
TL;DR: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States as discussed by the authors.
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Religion, terrorism and public goods: Testing the club model
TL;DR: This article found that missions organized by radical religious clubs that provide benign local public goods are both more lethal and are more likely to be suicide attacks than missions organised by other terrorist groups with similar aims and theologies.
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Religion, Terrorism and Public Goods: Testing the Club Model
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a rational choice model to explain why radical religious clubs specialize in suicide attacks, which is supported by data on terrorist lethality in the Middle East, showing that suicide attacks are chosen when targets are "hard", i.e., difficult to destroy.
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Religious Extremism: The Good, the Bad, and the Deadly
TL;DR: The authors argue that religious militancy is most effectively controlled through a combination of policies that raise the direct costs of violence, foster religious competition, improve social services, and encourage private enterprise.
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Religious Extremism: The Good, The Bad, and The Deadly
TL;DR: The authors argue that religious militancy is most effectively controlled through a combination of policies that raise the direct costs of violence, foster religious competition, improve social services, and encourage private enterprise.
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
TL;DR: Based on the author's seminal article in "Foreign Affairs", Samuel P. Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of concepts and related propositions drawn from a resource mobilization perspective, emphasizing the variety and sources of resources; the relationship of social movements to the media, authorities, and other parties; and the interaction among movement organizations.
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Frame alignment processes, micromobilization, and movement participation.
TL;DR: In this article, Frame alignment, of one variety or another, is a necessary condition for participation, whatever its nature or intensity, and that it is typically an interactional and ongoing accomplishment.
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The Making of the English Working Class
TL;DR: Fifty years since first publication, E P Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny as discussed by the authors.
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Why men rebel
TL;DR: Gurr's Why Men Rebel remains highly relevant to today's violent and unstable world with its holistic, people-based understanding of the causes of political protest and rebellion as discussed by the authors.