Strangers At the Gates - Movements and States in Contentious Politics

Informationen zum Autor Sidney Tarrow (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1965) is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His recent books are Power in Movement (revised and updated edition, 2011); Contentious Politics (with the late Charles Tilly, 2006); The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge University Press, 2005); Transnational Protest and Global Activism (co-edited with Donatella della Porta, 2004); Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, 2001); and Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig, 2001). He is currently working on war, state building and human rights. Klappentext Places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics in relation to states, political parties and other actors. Zusammenfassung Places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics in relation to states! political parties and other actors. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Theories of contention; Part I. Movements in History: Histories of Movements: 2. Peasants and communists in southern Italy; 3. State building and contention in America; 4. Revolution, war, and state building in France; Part II. Movements, Parties, and Elections: 5. Movements, states, and opportunities; 6. The phantom at the opera; Part III. Events, Episodes, and Cycles: 7. From eventful history to cycles of contention; 8. From moments of madness to the repertoire of contention; Part IV. Outcomes of Contention: 9. Social protest and policy breakthroughs; 10. 'What's in a word?'; Part V. Transnational Contention: 11. Rooted cosmopolitans and transnational activists; 12. Transnational contention and human rights.

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• Authors: Sidney Tarrow, Sidney (Cornell University Tarrow, Sidney G. Tarrow, Tarrow Sidney
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107009387
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00938-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; France, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Italy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration