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The Future of Social Movement Research

Author : Jacquelien van Stekelenburg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816686602
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Social Movement Research written by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to new theoretical strands and fields of research. The Future of Social Movement Research asks: How are the dynamics of contention shaped by globalization? By societies that are becoming increasingly more individualized and diverse? By the spread of new communication technologies such as social media, cell phones, and the Internet? Why do some movements survive while others dissipate? Do local and global networks differ in nature? The authors’ essays explore such questions with reference to changes in three domains of contention: the demand of protest (changes in grievances and identities), the supply of protest (changes in organizations and networks), and how these changes affect the dynamics of mobilization. In doing so, they theorize and make empirically insightful how globalization, individualization, and virtualization create new grievances, new venues for action, new action forms, and new structures of contention. The resulting work—brought together through engaging discussions and debates between the contributors—is interdisciplinary and unusually broad in scope, constituting the most comprehensive overview of the dynamics of social movements available today. Contributors: Marije Boekkooi, VU-U, Amsterdam; Pang Ching Bobby Chen, U of California, Merced; Donatella della Porta, European U Institute; Mario Diani, U of Trento, Italy; Jan Willem Duyvendak, U of Amsterdam; Myra Marx Ferree, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Beth Gharrity Gardner; Ashley Gromis; Swen Hutter, U of Munich; Ruud Koopmans, WZB, Berlin; Hanspeter Kriesi, U of Zurich; Nonna Mayer, National Centre for European Studies; Doug McAdam, Stanford U; John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State U; Debra Minkoff, Barnard College, Columbia U; Alice Motes; Pamela E. Oliver, U of Wisconsin–Madison; Francesca Polletta, U of California, Irvine; Jacomijne Prins, VU-U, Amsterdam; Patrick Rafail, Tulane U; Christopher Rootes, U of Kent, Canterbury; Dieter Rucht, Free U of Berlin; David A. Snow, U of California, Irvine; Sarah A. Soule, Stanford U; Suzanne Staggenborg, U of Pittsburgh; Sidney Tarrow, Cornell U; Verta Taylor, U of California, Santa Barbara; Marjoka van Doorn; Martijn van Zomeren, U of Groningen; Stefaan Walgrave, U of Antwerp; Saskia Welschen.

Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity

Author : Alison Mack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780309303316
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity written by Alison Mack and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity" is the summary of a workshop convened in December 2013 by the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement to explore the lessons that may be gleaned from social movements, both those that are health-related and those that are not primarily focused on health. Participants and presenters focused on elements identified from the history and sociology of social change movements and how such elements can be applied to present-day efforts nationally and across communities to improve the chances for long, healthy lives for all. The idea of movements and movement building is inextricably linked with the history of public health. Historically, most movements - including, for example, those for safer working conditions, for clean water, and for safe food - have emerged from the sustained efforts of many different groups of individuals, which were often organized in order to protest and advocate for changes in the name of such values as fairness and human rights. The purpose of the workshop was to have a conversation about how to support the fragments of health movements that roundtable members believed they could see occurring in society and in the health field. Recent reports from the National Academies have highlighted evidence that the United States gets poor value on its extraordinary investments in health - in particular, on its investments in health care - as American life expectancy lags behind that of other wealthy nations. As a result, many individuals and organizations, including the Healthy People 2020 initiative, have called for better health and longer lives.

Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe

Author : Olena Nikolayenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110841673X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe by : Olena Nikolayenko

Download or read book Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe written by Olena Nikolayenko and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a dramatic rise of nonviolent youth movements on the eve of national elections in Eastern Europe.

Waves of Democracy

Author : John Markoff
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803990197
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Waves of Democracy written by John Markoff and published by Pine Forge Press. This book was released on 1996-02-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waves of Democracy looks at two centuries of history of democratization as a series of multicontinental episodes in which social movements and elite power holders in many countries converged to reorganize political systems. Democracy is defined and redefined in these episodes. John Markoff examines several ways in which governing elites of national states mimic each other and ways in which social movements and elites interact. There is no other book written for undergraduates that looks at democracy over such a broad sweep of time and across so many countries and cultures.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements

Author : Donatella Della Porta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199678405
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements written by Donatella Della Porta and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.

Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America

Author : Leonidas Oikonomakis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319902032
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America by : Leonidas Oikonomakis

Download or read book Political Strategies and Social Movements in Latin America written by Leonidas Oikonomakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens. The author creates a model which distinguishes between two different roads to social change: one that passes through the seizure of state power and one that avoids any relationship with the state. Comparing the cases of two Latin American social movements, the Zapatistas in Mexico and the Bolivian Cocaleros, the volume argues that strategic choices are often decided upon through similar mechanisms. Ideal for a scholarly and non-specialist audience interested in Mexican and Bolivian politics, revolutions, and Latin American and social movement studies.

The Social Movement Society

Author : David S. Meyer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847685417
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book The Social Movement Society written by David S. Meyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Street Citizens

Author : Marco Giugni
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108475906
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Street Citizens written by Marco Giugni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

Rivalry and Reform

Author : Sidney M. Milkis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656942X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Rivalry and Reform written by Sidney M. Milkis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political system, often pursuing rival agendas that set them on a collision course. Even when their interests converge, these two actors often compete to control the timing and conditions of political change. During rare historical moments, however, presidents and social movements forged partnerships that profoundly recast American politics. Rivalry and Reform explores the relationship between presidents and social movements throughout history and into the present day, revealing the patterns that emerge from the epic battles and uneasy partnerships that have profoundly shaped reform. Through a series of case studies, including Abraham Lincoln and abolitionism, Lyndon Johnson and the civil rights movement, and Ronald Reagan and the religious right, Sidney M. Milkis and Daniel J. Tichenor argue persuasively that major political change usually reflects neither a top-down nor bottom-up strategy but a crucial interplay between the two. Savvy leaders, the authors show, use social movements to support their policy goals. At the same time, the most successful social movements target the president as either a source of powerful support or the center of opposition. The book concludes with a consideration of Barack Obama’s approach to contemporary social movements such as Black Lives Matter, United We Dream, and Marriage Equality.

Movement Parties Against Austerity

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509511490
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Movement Parties Against Austerity written by Donatella della Porta and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ascendance of austerity policies and the protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of SYRIZA in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in Italy, alongside the quest for a more radical left in countries such as the UK and the US, bear witness to a new wave of parties that draws inspiration and strength from social movements. The rise of movement parties challenges simplistic expectations of a growing separation between institutional and contentious politics and the decline of the left. Their return demands attention as a way of understanding both contemporary socio-political dynamics and the fundamentals of political parties and representation. Bridging social movement and party politics studies, within a broad concern with democratic theories, this volume presents new empirical evidence and conceptual insight into these topical socio-political phenomena, within a cross-national comparative perspective.

Cultures Of Politics/politics Of Cultures

Author : Sonia E Alvarez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980760
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cultures Of Politics/politics Of Cultures written by Sonia E Alvarez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues the relationship between culture and politics can be productively explored by delving into the nature of the cultural politics enacted by Latin American social movements and by examining the potential of this cultural politics for fostering social change.

Passionate Politics

Author : Jeff Goodwin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226303987
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Passionate Politics written by Jeff Goodwin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once at the corner of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows, with no place in the rationalistic, structural and organisational models that dominate academic political analysis. These essays reverse the trend.

Understanding the Tea Party Movement

Author : Nella Van Dyke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317004574
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Tea Party Movement written by Nella Van Dyke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailing themselves as heirs to the American Revolution, the Tea Party movement staged tax day protests in over 750 US cities in April 2009, quickly establishing a large and volatile social movement. Tea Partiers protested at town hall meetings about health care across the country in August, leading to a large national demonstration in Washington on September 12, 2009. The movement spurred the formation (or redefinition) of several national organizations and many more local groups, and emerged as a strong force within the Republican Party. Self-described Tea Party candidates won victories in the November 2010 elections. Even as activists demonstrated their strength and entered government, the future of the movement's influence, and even its ultimate goals, are very much in doubt. In 2012, Barack Obama, the movement’s prime target, decisively won re-election, Congressional Republicans were unable to govern, and the Republican Party publicly wrestled with how to manage the insurgency within. Although there is a long history of conservative movements in America, the library of social movement studies leans heavily to the left. The Tea Party movement, its sudden emergence and its uncertain fate, provides a challenge to mainstream American politics. It also challenges scholars of social movements to reconcile this new movement with existing knowledge about social movements in America. Understanding the Tea Party Movement addresses these challenges by explaining why and how the movement emerged when it did, how it relates to earlier eruptions of conservative populism, and by raising critical questions about the movement's ultimate fate.

Party in the Street

Author : Michael T. Heaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107085403
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Party in the Street written by Michael T. Heaney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

States, Parties, and Social Movements

Author : Jack A. Goldstone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016995
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book States, Parties, and Social Movements written by Jack A. Goldstone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Deeply Divided

Author : Doug McAdam
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199394261
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Deeply Divided written by Doug McAdam and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to the extreme inequality and savage partisan divisions of today? In this sweeping look at American politics from the Depression to the present, Doug McAdam and Karina Kloos argue that party politics alone is not responsible for the mess we find ourselves in. Instead, it was the ongoing interaction of social movements and parties that, over time, pushed Democrats and Republicans toward their ideological margins, undermining the post-war consensus in the process. The Civil Rights struggle and the white backlash it provoked reintroduced the centrifugal force of social movements into American politics, ushering in an especially active and sustained period of movement/party dynamism, culminating in today's tug of war between the Tea Party and Republican establishment for control of the GOP. In Deeply Divided, McAdam and Kloos depart from established explanations of the conservative turn in the United States and trace the roots of political polarization and economic inequality back to the shifting racial geography of American politics in the 1960s. Angered by Lyndon Johnson's more aggressive embrace of civil rights reform in 1964, Southern Dixiecrats abandoned the Democrats for the first time in history, setting in motion a sustained regional realignment that would, in time, serve as the electoral foundation for a resurgent and increasingly more conservative Republican Party.

The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior

Author : Jan E. Leighley
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0199604517
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior written by Jan E. Leighley and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbooks of American Politics are the essential guide to the study of American political life in the 21st Century. With engaging contributions from the major figures in the field The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and Political Behavior provides the key point of reference for anyone working in American Politics today