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How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the postwar period to the extreme inequality and partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that the rise of social movements, from Civil Rights to the Tea Party, have pushed Republicans and Democrats away from the center and toward the fringes.

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Introduction, 1999PrefaceIntroduction1. The Classical Model of Social Movements Examined2. Resource Mobilization: A Deficient Alternative3. The Political Process Model4. The Empirical Implications of Various Models of Social Movements5. The Historical Context of Black Insurgency, 1876-19546. The Generation of Black Insurgency, 1955-607. The Heyday of Black Insurgency, 1961-658. The Decline of Black Insurgency, 1966-709. Political Process and B...

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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 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 incl...

This book reports the results of a comparative study of twenty communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects.

This book reports the results of a comparative study of twenty communities earmarked for environmentally risky energy projects.

In June 1964, over one thousand volunteers--most of them white, northern college students--arrived in Mississippi to register black voters and staff "freedom schools" as part of the Freedom Summer campaign organized by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Within ten days, threeof them were murdered, by the summer's end, another had died and hundreds more had endured bombings, beatings, and arrests. Less dramatically, but no less sig...

Se ha logrado reunir e integrar en este volumen un conjunto de ensayos de gran riqueza analítica y contextual, obra de especialistas europeos y norteamericanos en movimientos sociales. Dichos trabajos se centran en tres factores generales que afectan al surgimiento y desarrollo de dichos movimientos: oportunidades políticas, estructuras de movilización y procesos de creación de marcos interpretativos. El libro nos ofrece una oportuna clarifica...

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How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the postwar period to the extreme inequality and partisan divisions of today?

Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution and democratization has flourished.

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In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution and democratization has flourished. This book was first published in 2001.

This volume examines various social movements from a comparative perspective.