The Politics of Social Protest
Author : J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 1452901414
Author : J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 1452901414
Author : Marco Giugni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108475906
Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.
Author : David S. Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Political activists
ISBN : 9780199937134
The Politics of Protest offers both a historical overview and an analytical framework for understanding social movements and political protest in American politics. Meyer shows that protest movements, an integral part of our nation's history from the Boston Tea Party to the Civil Rights Movement, are hardly confined to the distant past. He argues that protest movements in America reflect and influence mainstream politics and that in order to understand our political system--and our social and political world--we need to pay attention to protest. The Politics of Protest opens with a short history of social movements in the United States, beginning with the development of the American Republic and outlining how the American constitutional design invites protest movements to offer continual challenges. It then discusses the social impulse to protest, considers the strategies and tactics of social movements, looks at the institutional response to protest, and finally examines the policy ramifications. Each chapter includes a brief narrative of a key movement that illustrates the topic covered in that chapter. New to This Edition * A new chapter on media and movements (Chapter 6: Protest and Communication: New and Old Media) that examines how media has changed in the past two decades, focusing in particular on online activism * New discussions on such topics as the election of a black president, the emergence of the Tea Party movement, and the intensifying conflict regarding immigration policy * More material on the successes of the gay and lesbian movement in promoting policy changes to marriage at the state level and in national military service
Author : J. Craig Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816624218
Author : David S. Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 11,85 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 : Charles F. Andrain
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1995-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814706347
Analyzes the reciprocal impact of cultural beliefs, sociopolitical structures, and individual behaviors on protests throughout the world, examining such questions as why people participate in protest activities, what compels them to participate in non- violent movements, and what leads them to engage in revolutionary protest. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Karl-Dieter Opp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134014392
Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic concepts like political opportunities or identity are not clearly defined. It is further often a matter of interpretation what factors are supposed to affect which phenomena. The first aim is therefore to provide a detailed introduction to and a clear restatement of the theories. Only then is it possible to assess and improve them. (2) For each theory the major strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and various modifications and extensions are suggested. (3) Building on these analyses, it is shown how the theories can be integrated into a single theoretical paradigm: the structural-cognitive model.
Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,94 MB
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521485166
Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements, first published in 1996, brings together a set of essays that focus upon mobilization structures and strategies, political opportunities, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany. Their authors are amongst the leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements.
Author : Craig Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1995-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780203992678
This book examines why citizens resort to the often risky and demanding strategy of using disruptive protest when other channels of political intervention appear to be available. It analyzes the relationship between protest movements and the formal political system.; This book is intended for postgraduate and undergraduate sociology and politics students on courses in political sociology, comparative politics and social movements. Also of strong interest within social psychology, social anthropology, contemporary history and social geography.
Author : Daniel Q. Gillion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 22,54 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107031141
This book is the first to provide quantifiable evidence that protest shifts the policy positions of national political leaders for each branch of government. Drawing on daily presidential rhetoric, roll call votes of congressional leaders, and Supreme Court decisions, the book demonstrates that national politicians take cues from minority protest activity that later lead to major shifts in public policy, rivaling the influence that minorities have through elections and public opinion.