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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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"The liability of newness" revisited: Theoretical restatement and empirical testing in emergent organizations.
Tiantian Yang,Howard E. Aldrich +1 more
TL;DR: Taking organizational emergence as a process comprising entrepreneurs engaging in actions that produce outcomes, hypotheses about the social mechanisms of organizational construction involved in investing resources, developing routines, and maintaining boundaries are proposed.
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Manufacturing Dissent: Modernization and the Onset of Major Nonviolent Resistance Campaigns
Charles Butcher,Isak Svensson +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that extensive social networks that are economically interdependent with the state make strategic non-violence more feasible, and that the likelihood of nonviolent conflict onset increases with the proportion of manufacturing to gross domestic product.
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Yes We Can: Latino Participation in Unconventional Politics
TL;DR: The authors examined the differences in low-risk protest activity among non-Latinos and Latinos of Mexican, Puerto Rican and Cuban origin and found that, contrary to theoretical predictions, Latinos are less likely to protest relative to non-Latino.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
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