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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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Trouble in Store: Probes, Protests and Store Openings by Wal-Mart, 1998-2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that chain stores respond to this uncertainty through a "test for protest" approach, where they use low-cost probes that take the form of proposals to open a store.
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Clandestine Political Violence
TL;DR: In this article, political violence and social movements: an introduction 2. Escalating policing 3. Competitive escalation during protest cycles 4. The activation of militant networks 5. Organizational compartmentalization 6. Action militarization 7. Ideological encapsulation 8. Militant enclosure 9. Reversing mechanisms of engagement 10. Leaving clandestinity?
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Reputation and Reliability in Collective Goods The Case of the Online Encyclopedia Wikipedia
TL;DR: The authors examined how contributor motivations affect the type of contributions made to the open source online encyclopedia Wikipedia and found that registered participants, motivated by reputation and commitment to the Wikipedia community, make many contributions with high reliability.
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Relational Repression in China: Using Social Ties to Demobilize Protesters
Yanhua Deng,Kevin J. O'Brien +1 more
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper show that relational repression can help demobilize protesters and halt popular action by reducing tension at times of high strain and providing a channel for negotiation, but insufficiently tight ties and limited concern about consequences creates a commitment deficit, partly because thought workers recognize their ineffectiveness with many protesters and partly because they anticipate little or no punishment for failing to demobilizing anyone other than a close relative.
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Social Networks and Political Participation: How Do Networks Matter?
TL;DR: This paper showed that the contents of relationships and the identities shared by two people, rather than tie strength, form the basis of interpersonal influence in political activism. But they did not examine which types of social networks work more effectively in recruiting political activists.
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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.