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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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Can democracy theory explain the emergence of the Egyptian democratic movement
TL;DR: Demokratisierungstheorien sind stark von den Erfahrungen verschiedener vergangener demokratischen Transitionen as mentioned in this paper.
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Fight or Flight in Civil War? Evidence from Rebel-Controlled Syria
TL;DR: This article found that people with strong in-group bonds and out-group aversions are more likely to stay and fight, while refugees are far less revenge-seeking and more willing to negotiate for peace.
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The mobilization dropout race: interpersonal networks and motivations predicting differential recruitment in a national climate change demonstration*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present data about 2,100 potential and actual participants in a national climate change demonstration in Belgium and present a comprehensive model including interpersonal networks and issue-related motivations to predict and explain participation and nonparticipation in a specific protest demonstration.
Local Sequential Patterns: The Structure of Lynching in the Deep South,
TL;DR: In this paper, a new analytic description of the temporal structure of local lynching histories in the Deep South between 1882 and 1930 is presented. But the analysis is limited to the analysis of a single lynching incident, and yield more insight into patterns of interaction than into the phenomena of lynching as a whole.
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The New Teachers’ Roundtable: A Case Study of Collective Resistance
TL;DR: The New Teachers Roundtable (NTRT) as discussed by the authors is a democratically run collective of new teachers who have become critical of neoliberal reform since relocating to New Orleans, with organizations including Teach For America, as a part of the post-Katrina overhaul of public schools.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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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.