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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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Deciding to support violence: An empirical examination of systematic decision-making, activism, and support for political violence:
TL;DR: The authors examined how attitudes of activism and systematic decision-making are related to support for political violence, using unique data from a randomly selected sample of undergraduate and graduate students in the US.
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Social Media, Social Movement and Political Change: The Case of 2011 Cairo Revolt.
Rozan O. Maghrabi,Al F. Salam +1 more
TL;DR: The goal of this study is to understand the influence of social media on activism, social movement, and political change, using the 2011 Cairo revolts as a case study and the larger role of Information Systems and Technologies in social and political systems.
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Censoring the Press: A Barometer of Government Tolerance for Anti-regime Dissent under Authoritarian Rule
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed that dissident leaders aiming to build mass opposition movements follow the mainstream press to help them gauge government tolerance for anti-government mass actions in repressive authoritarian regimes.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
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