James M. (Hrsg.) Jasper

Contention in Context

Political Opportunities and the Emergence of Protest

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Despite extensive theoretical debates over the utility of political opportunities as an explanation for the rise and success of social movements, there have been surprisingly few serious empirical tests. Contention in Context provides the most extensive effort to date to test the model, analyzing a range of important cases of revolutions and protest movements to identify the role of political opportunities in the rise of political contention.With evidence from more than fifty cases, this book explores the role of the state in protest, the frequent overemphasis on political opportunities in recent research, and the extent to which opportunity… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Goodwin, Jeff (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-8047-7893-0
EAN: 9780804778930
Produktnummer: 23012814
Verlag: Stanford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 360 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'459 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Jeff Goodwin is Professor of Sociology at New York University. James M. Jasper is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. They are coeditors of The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts (2009) and The Contexts Reader (2007).