Author : J. Ayres
Publisher : Springer
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 26,83 MB
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230246893
This is the only book of its kind devoted to exploring contentious politics from a North American perspective, including protests, social movements, transnational contention, and emergent regional governance processes, between Canadian, U.S. and Mexican state and civil society actors.
Author : Charles D. Brockett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 12,26 MB
Release : 2005-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521600552
This book offers an indepth analysis of the confrontation between popular movements and repressive regimes in Central America for the three decades beginning in 1960, particularly in El Salvador and Guatemala. It examines both urban and rural groups as well as both nonviolent social movements and revolutionary movements. It studies the impact of state violence on contentious political movements as well as defends the political process model for studying such movements.
Author : Seraphim Seferiades
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317001621
This volume of cutting-edge research comparatively analyzes violent protest and rioting, furthering our understanding of this increasingly prevalent form of claim making. Hank Johnston and Seraphim Seferiades bring together internationally recognized experts in the field of protest studies and contentious politics to analyze the causes and trajectories of violence as a protest tactic. Crossnational comparisons from North America, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Thailand, and elsewhere contribute to the volume's theoretical elaboration, while several case studies add depth to the discussion. This title will be of key importance to scholars across the social sciences, including sociology, political science, geography and criminology. Johnston and Seferiades's exciting book is a significant contribution to the study of rioting and violent protest in the contemporary neoliberal state.
Author : David S. Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 20,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780847685417
Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealing perspectives on the effectiveness of social protest.
Author : Fawaz A. Gerges
Publisher : Springer
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 36,70 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137530863
While the Arab people took center stage in the Arab Spring protests, academic studies have focused more on structural factors to understand the limitations of these popular uprisings. This book analyzes the role and complexities of popular agency in the Arab Spring through the framework of contentious politics and social movement theory.
Author : Yasmeen Abu-Laban
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 1078 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442604387
It is no longer sufficient to examine discrete nation-states in isolation from each other. In Politics in North America: Redefining Continental Relations, prominent authors from Canada, the United States, and Mexico explore the politics of redefining the institutional, economic, geographic, and cultural boundaries of North America. The contributors argue that the study of politics in the twenty-first century requires simultaneous attention to all levels (local, national, and international) as well as, increasingly, to continents. This argument is explored through the historical and contemporary social and political forces that have created competing visions of what it means to belong to a North American political community. In this process, new debates emerge in the book concerning the appropriate role for the state, as well as the meaning of sovereignty, democracy, and rights.
Author : Michael T. Heaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 2015-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107085403
Party in the Street explores the interaction between political parties and social movements in the United States. Examining the collapse of the post-9/11 antiwar movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this book focuses on activism and protest in the United States. It argues that the electoral success of the Democratic Party and President Barack Obama, as well as antipathy toward President George W. Bush, played a greater role in this collapse than did changes in foreign policy. It shows that how people identify with social movements and political parties matters a great deal, and it considers the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as comparison cases.
Author : Charles Tilly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190255056
"An analysis of the major contentious events over the course of the past ten years"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Dan Slater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 18,51 MB
Release : 2010-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139489968
Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection pacts': broad elite coalitions unified by shared support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes - all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes.
Author : Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521629478
Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.
