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Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer.

Doug McAdam
- 01 Jul 1986 - 
- Vol. 92, Iss: 1, pp 64-90
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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.
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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...

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Engagement radical, extrême ou violent : basculement ou “continuation” de soi ?

TL;DR: Une nouvelle determination of l’engagement radical, decrit comme radical, emerge alors en reference a ces deux caracteristiques non psychologisantes mais de nature descriptive, en termes de haut cout et of haut risque.
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The Role of Social Networks in the Recruitment of Youth in an Islamist Organization in Pakistan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how young people are connected with one influential Islamist student organization in Pakistan and provided deeper insight into the micro-level mechanisms and processes by which new members are approached and drawn closer to the particular organization.
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Dispersed Communist Networks and Grassroots Leadership of Peasant Revolts in Mexico

TL;DR: The Mexican Communist Party (PCM) was systematically among the initiators of many peasant movements, despite earlier state repression that had nearly destroyed the Party and despite ongoing repression.
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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.