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Power in Movement

Social Movements and Contentious Politics

by Sidney Tarrow ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. Covering key episodes up to the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, leading scholar of politics ... Read more

$27.89 USD

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the Arab Spring, and to ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. Covering key episodes up to the attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, leading scholar of politics
... Read more
Law, Mobilization, and Social Movements

How Many Masters?

by Whitney K. Taylor, Sidney Tarrow ...

Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an ... Read more

$20.49 USD

Legal and social movement scholars have long puzzled over the role of movements in moving, being moved by, and changing the meanings of the law. But for decades, these two strands of scholarship only dovetailed at their edges, in the work of a few far-seeing scholars. The fields began to more productively merge before and after the turn of the century. In this Element, the authors take an
... Read more
Movements and Parties

Critical Connections in American Political Development

by Sidney Tarrow ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civil rights movements to the Tea Party and Trumpism today – Sidney Tarrow tackles these questions and ... Read more

$38.59 USD

How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics – from the Civil War era to the women's rights and civil rights movements to the Tea Party and Trumpism today – Sidney Tarrow tackles these questions and
... Read more
The Phantom at The Opera

Social Movements and Institutional Politics

by Sidney Tarrow ...

Series series Elements in Contentious Politics
Movements and parties have given rise to two largely separates specialties in the social sciences. This Element is an effort to link the two literatures, using evidence from American political development. It identifies five relational mechanisms governing movement/party relations: two of them short term, two intermediate term, and one long-term. It closes with a reflection on the role of movement ... Read more

$20.49 USD

Movements and parties have given rise to two largely separates specialties in the social sciences. This Element is an effort to link the two literatures, using evidence from American political development. It identifies five relational mechanisms governing movement/party relations: two of them short term, two intermediate term, and one long-term. It closes with a reflection on the role of movement
... Read more
Power in Movement

Social Movements and Contentious Politics

by Sidney G. Tarrow ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Social 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 ... Read more

$24.59 USD

Social 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
... Read more
From Contention to Democracy

by William Gamson, Jack A. Goldstone, Michael Hanagan, Patricia L. Hispher, Timo Lyyra, Alberto Melucci, Florence Passy, Salvador A. M. Sandoval, Sidney Tarrow ...

From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change.Three broad types of movement-change nexus are ... Read more

$55.99 USD

From Contention to Democracy addresses a crucial aspect of contemporary societies: the role of social movements for political and social change. The volume gathers together essays written by prominent social theorists who have been asked to reflect on the relationship between movements and processes of social, political and cultural change.Three broad types of movement-change nexus are
... Read more
War, States, and Contention

A Comparative Historical Study

by Sidney Tarrow ...

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"—disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise ... Read more

$26.59 USD

For the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored "contentious politics"—disruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise
... Read more
Social Movements and American Political Institutions

by Andrew S. McFarland, Lee Ann Banaszak, Jeffrey M. Berry, Paul Burstein, W Douglas Costain, Daniel M. Cress, Claude Dufour, John C. Green, James L. Guth0, Douglas R. Imig1, James P. Lester2, Mark I. Lichbach3, Michael W. McCann4, Oneida Meranto5, Deborah Schildkraut6, David A. Snow7, Laura R. Woliver8, Doug McAdam9, Sidney Tarrow0, Clyde Wilcox1 ...

Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and broadening the agenda of American politics. This volume combines chapters by a distinguished group of ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and broadening the agenda of American politics. This volume combines chapters by a distinguished group of
... Read more
Contentious Politics

by Charles Tilly, Sidney Tarrow ...

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical ... Read more

$39.59 USD

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The authors present a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical
... Read more
The Language of Contention

Revolutions in Words, 1688–2012

by Sidney Tarrow ...

Series series Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion and endurance of contentious language. Beginning with the language of revolution developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it examines contentious language at work, in gender and race relations and in nationalist and ethnic movements. It closes with an ... Read more

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This book examines the relations between the material and political bases of contentious politics and the construction, diffusion and endurance of contentious language. Beginning with the language of revolution developed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, it examines contentious language at work, in gender and race relations and in nationalist and ethnic movements. It closes with an
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Globalization and Resistance

Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements

by Hank Johnston, Jeffrey M. Ayres, Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Sean Chabot, Marco G. Giugni, Michael Hanagan, Tammy L. Lewis, Gregory M. Maney, Pamela E. Oliver, Kim D. Reimann0, Franklin Daniel Rothman1, Sharon Erickson Nepstad2, Sidney Tarrow3 ...

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the "battle of Seattle." ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Globalization and Resistance brings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the "battle of Seattle."
... Read more
Strangers at the Gates

Movements and States in Contentious Politics

by Sidney Tarrow ...

This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events ... Read more

$31.99 USD

This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events
... Read more

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