Contentious Politics

Zusatztext A state of the art guide to analyzing conflict from two grand masters. There is no finer tool for teaching students to understand the causes, processes, and outcomes of diverse forms of political contention. Informationen zum Autor Sidney Tarrow is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University. Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929-April 29, 2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. Klappentext Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written the book to introduce readers to an exciting new program of political and sociological analysis. Zusammenfassung Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious politics combine in Charles Tilly's and Sidney Tarrow's Contentious Politics. The book presents a set of analytical tools and procedures for study, comparison, and explanation of these very different sorts of contention. Drawing on many historical and contemporary cases, the book shows that similar principles describe and explain a wide variety of struggles as well as many more routine forms of politics. Tilly and Tarrow have written the book to introduce readers to an exciting new program of political and sociological analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Sidney Tarrow, Sidney (Cornell University) Tarrow, Sidney G. Tarrow, Tarrow Sidney, Charles Tilly, Charles/ Tarrow Tilly, The late Charles Tilly
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2006
• EAN: 9780199946082
• ISBN: 978-0-19-994608-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political activism, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Political activism / Political engagement