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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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Considering the Orange legacy: patterns of political participation in the Euromaidan Revolution
TL;DR: The authors argue that the key to understanding the role of agency and structure in protestparticipation is to relax strong assumptions about the unified nature of society and consider the multiple paths to participation.
Detecting Social Networks: Design and Analysis of Multilevel Experiments
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors thank Delia Bailey, participants of the St. Louis Area Methods Meeting and participants of Nuffield Networks meeting for their comments on earlier versions of this paper, and to Holger Kern and Peter Aronow for helpful comments on early drafts.
Methodological challenges in participation research
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the possibilities of a wider representation of public opinion from the analysis of the dynamics generated by the institutional device of Public Debate, which encourages national, regional or local debates about political decisions which involve an important governmental investment.
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Protesting During a Pandemic: Narratives on Risk Taking and Motivation to Participating in the 2020 March on Washington
TL;DR: In this paper, the interplay of COVID-19 and the wave of Black Lives Matter protests was examined to assess motivation and risk-taking for protest participation, drawing on protesters' accounts.
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The importance of political context: Motives to participate in a protest before and after the labor reform in Spain
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared participants of two demonstrations in Spain on different dates, organized by the same trade unions, with the same objectives (opposition to a new labor law) to ascertain how political context and participants' union membership affect the motivation to participate in a protest.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
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