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Power in Movement Social Movements and Contentious Politics

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ISBN-10: 0521629470

ISBN-13: 9780521629478

Edition: 2nd 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Sidney Tarrow, Robert H. Bates, Ellen Comisso, Peter Lange, Joel Migdal

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Description:

This book surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives.
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Book details

List price: $27.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/13/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.880

Introduction
Contentious politics and social movements
The Birth of the Modern Social Movement
Modular collective action
Print and association
Statebuilding and social movements
From Contention to Social Movements
Political opportunities and constraints
The repertoire of contention
Framing contention
Mobilising structures and contentious politics
The Dynamics of Movement
Cycles of contention
Struggling to reform
Transnational contention/conclusion: the future of social movements