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Presents a series of papers that discuss political opportunity and social movements. This book includes case studies of specific social movements, comparative case studies of social movements, and comparative case studies of transnational issue networks.
List of contents
Introduction (Patrick G. Coy)Part I. Political Opportunity Structures, Identity, and Social MovementsCulture and Political Opportunity: Rastafarian Links to the Jamaican Poor (A E Gorden Buffonge)Compromise in South Africa: Class Relations, Political Opportunities, and the Contextualized A"Ripe MomentA" for Resolution(Kristin Marsh)Expanding Political Opportunities and Changing Collective Identities in the Complementary and Alternative Medicine Movement (Melinda Goldner)Rival Transnational Networks and Indigenous Rights: The San Blas Kuna in Panama and the Yanomami in Brazil (Gregory M. Maney)The Origins of the Protest Movement Against Nuclear Power (Stephen Adair)Inaction, Individual Action and Collective Action as Responses to Housing Dissatisfaction: A Comparative Study of Budapest and Moscow (Chris Pickvance)Protester/Target Interactions: A Microsociological Approach to Studying Movement Outcomes (Rachel L. Einwohner)Part II. Democratization and Disorders as Political Change MechanismsWelsh Nationalism and the Challenge of "inclusive" Politics (Paul Chaney and Ralph Fevre)A Difficult Birth: Dissent, Opposition, and Murder in the Rise of Mexico's Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (Sara Schatz)Campus Racial Disorders and Community Ties, 1967-1969 (Daniel J. Myers and Alexander J. Buyoe)
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Presents a series of papers that discuss political opportunity and social movements. This book includes case studies of specific social movements, comparative case studies of social movements, and comparative case studies of transnational issue networks.
