Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious PoliticsSocial movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication and transnational diffusion. |
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Contents
| 16 | |
Figures | 21 |
Modular Collective Action | 37 |
Print and Association | 57 |
States Capitalism and Contention | 71 |
Acting Contentiously | 95 |
Networks and Organizations | 119 |
Making Meanings | 140 |
Threats Opportunities and Regimes | 157 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| Author | Sidney G. Tarrow |
| Edition | 3, revised |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2011 |
| ISBN | 1139496220, 9781139496223 |
| Subjects | › › History / Social History Political Science / Comparative Politics Political Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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