Dynamics of Contention

Name: Dynamics of Contention
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ISBN: 9780521011877

ISBN-10: 0521011876

ISBN-13: 9780521011877

Edition: 2001

Authors: Douglas McAdam, Sidney G. Tarrow, Charles Tilly, Charles Tilly, Charles Tilly

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Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include "Why?" (Princeton) and "Democracy".




What's the Problem?



What are they shouting about



Lineaments of contention



Comparisons, mechanisms, and episodes



Tentative Solutions



Mobilizations in comparative perspective



Contentious action



Transformations of contention



Applications and Conclusions



Revolutionary trajectories



Nationalism, national disintegration, and contention



Contentious democratization



Conclusions