Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Luders is Gottesman Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University. His research focuses on social movements, civil rights politics and policy, and American political development. Klappentext This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society, focusing on the targets of protests to explain diverse outcomes. Zusammenfassung This book examines the success and failure of social movements to bring about change in American society. Joseph Luders focuses on the targets of protests and affected bystanders! their interests! and their responses to explain the diverse outcomes of social movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The logic of social movement outcomes; 2. Civil rights and reactive countermobilization; 3. The calculus of compromise; 4. Local struggles; 5. Patterns of regional change; 6. Federal responses to civil rights mobilization; 7. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph E. Luders, Joseph E. (Yeshiva University Luders, Luders Joseph E.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2010
• EAN: 9780521133395
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13339-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, Constitution: government and the state