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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 Morality of “new” CEO Activism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the recent upsurge in CEO activism by juxtaposing it against broader social activism, identifying its distinctive characteristics, and empirically examining two recent ‘moral episodes': the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and the Fetal Heartbeat Acts (FHAs).
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Kin and peer contexts and militant involvement : a narrative analysis
TL;DR: In this article, a new framework for systematically applying narrative analysis to a dataset of militant autobiographies published between 1945 and 2015 is developed and employed to understand how these authors draw upon kin and peers in constructing their narrative storyworlds.
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Who Goes, Why, and With What Effects: The Problem of Foreign Fighters from Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the phenomenon of Islamist foreign fighters, more specifically the movement of European Muslims to participate in the insurgencies in Syria and Iraq connected to the Islamic State/Daesh as well as the anti-Assad forces in Syria, and the implications for European state stability.
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Crafting Courts in New Democracies: Ideology and Judicial Council Reforms in Three Mexican States
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine variation in judicial councils and find that principled-ideological factors shape reform, and that judicial reform is less a mechanical side effect of increasing electoral competition and more the product of principled, purposeful action.
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Brokering Peace: Networks, Legitimacy, and the Northern Ireland Peace Process
TL;DR: Goddard et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that the Belfast Agreement succeeded not because of a change of interests or disappearance of spoilers, but because of the presence of brokers at the bargaining table.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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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.