Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings / edited by Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald.
"Social movements such as environmentalism, feminism, nationalism, and the anti-immigration movement are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements brings together a set of essays...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: opportunities mobilizing structures and framing processes / Doug McAdam
- Part I. Political Opportunities:
- 1. Clarifying the concept of political opportunities / Doug McAdam
- 2. States and opportunities: the political structuring of social movements / Sidney Tarrow
- 3. Social movements and the state: thoughts on the policing of protest / Donatella della Porta
- 4. Opportunities and framing in the East European revolts of 1989 / Anthony Oberschall
- 5. Opportunities and Framing in the Political Cycle of Perestroika / Elena Zdravomyslova
- Part II. Mobilizing Structures:
- 6. Mobilizing structures: constraints and opportunities in adopting, adapting and inventing / John D. McCarthy
- 7. The organizational structure of new social movements in relation to their political context / Hanspeter Kriesi
- 8. The impact of national contexts on social movement structures: a cross-movement and cross-national comparison / Dieter Rucht
- 9. Organizational form as frame: collective identity and political strategy in the American Labor Movement 1880-1920 / Elisabeth S. Clemens
- 10. The collapse of a social movement: the interplay of mobilizing structures, framing, and political opportunities in the Knights of Labor / Kim Voss
- Part III. Framing Processes: 11. Culture ideology and strategic framing
- 12. Accessing public media electoral and governmental agendas / John D. McCarthy, Jackie Smith, and Mayer N. Zald
- 13. Media discourse, movement publicity, and the generation of collective action frames: theoretical and empirical exercises in meaning construction / Bert Klandermans and Sjoerd Goslinga
- 14. Framing political opportunity / William A. Gamson and David S. Meyer
- 15. The framing function of movement tactics: strategic dramaturgy in the American civil rights movement / Doug McAdam.