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Linking Arenas: structuring concepts in the study of politics and protest
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An arena is a familiar, common-sense word to specify what constrains and enables human actors, or players, in politics, in the sense of the places where they do politics.Abstract:
An arena is a familiar, common-sense word to specify what constrains and enables human actors, or players, in politics, in the sense of the places where they do politics. It joins a long list of si...read more
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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930–1970. By Doug McAdam. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. viii + 304 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.)
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How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism
TL;DR: In this article, Afary discusses the complexity of sexual politics across 200 years of Iranian history, and presents a new take on its surprising, and mixed, record of political and sexual politics.
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Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest:
TL;DR: The Players and Arenas: The Interactive Dynamics of Protest is an important milestone for the ongoing interactionist insurgency in social movement studies as discussed by the authors, where contributors were all invited to weigh the prospects of a Strategic Interaction approach to contentious politics and the differences between them are quite constructive and enjoyable to discover in the course of reading this richly edited collection.
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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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States and social revolutions : a comparative analysis of France, Russia, and China
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the causes of social revolutions in France, Russia and China, and present alternatives to existing theories to explain these social revolutions, including a focus on state building and the emergence of a dictatorship in Russia.
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Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
TL;DR: McAdam as discussed by the authors presented a political process model that explains the rise and decline of the black protest movement in the United States, focusing on the crucial role of three institutions that foster protest: black churches, black colleges, and Southern chapters of the NAACP.
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Dynamics of Contention
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of contention in national disintegration and contention in the process of national mobilizations and their application in the context of national democratization, and conclude that "national disintegration, national disentanglement, and contention are the main causes of national disarray".
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Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies
TL;DR: The authors compare cross-national comparisons of social movements with similar objectives or forms of mobilization in diverse settings, and present case studies of such movements, however, remain rare, although opportunities abound to observe movements having similar objectives.