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Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer.
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This paper argued for the importance of a distinction between "low-and high-risk/cost activism" and outlined a model or recruitment to the latter, emphasizing the import of low-risk and high-cost activism.Abstract:
This article proposes and argues for the importance of a distinction between "low-" and "high-risk/cost activism" and outlines a model or recruitment to the latter. The model emphasizes the importa...read more
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Violence and human rights in Russia: how human rights defenders develop their tactics in the face of danger, 2005–2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that those activists at high risk often reinvent their tactics to counter curtailing legislation, experiment with the boundaries of police violence and manage the fear of fellow activists.
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Radicalisation as a moral career: a qualitative study of how people become terrorists in the United Kingdom
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of radicalization within the context of the UK is presented, focusing on how people become radicalised, why some are rendered susceptible to radicalisation, and why some go on to commit acts of violence and terrorism.
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Active Greens An Analysis of the Determinants of Green Party Members’ Activism in Environmental Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate green party members' activism in the environmental movement and test how a number of predictors, theoretically suggested in the past yet rarely empirically tested, can ac...
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Individuals, Groups, and Networks: Implications for the Study and Practice of Democratic Politics
Der Dschihadismus als transnationale soziale Bewegung
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that der Dschihadismus als transnationale soziale Bewegung gesehen werden kann, die auf Identitat abzielt.
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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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Self-perception theory
TL;DR: Self-perception theory as discussed by the authors states that individuals come to know their own attitudes, emotions, and other internal states partially by inferring them from observations of their own overt behavior and/or the circumstances in which this behavior occurs.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.