ComparativePerspectivesonSocialMovements.epub

Social movements are a prominent feature of the modern world and have attracted increasing attention from scholars in many countries. This volume brings together a set of essays that focus on political opportunities, mobilization structures and strategies, and cultural framing and ideologies. The essays are comparative and include studies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the United States, Italy, the Netherlands, and West Germany. Their authors are leaders in the development of social movement theory and the empirical study of social movements. Comparative perspectives on social movements CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE POLITICS General editor PETER LANGE Duke University Associate editors ELLEN COMISSO University of California, San Diego PETER HALL Harvard University JOEL MIGDAL University of Washington HELEN MILNER Columbia University RONALD ROGOWSKI University of California, Los Angeles SIDNEY TARROW Cornell University OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES Catherine Boone, Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930-1985 Donatella della Porta, Social Movements, Political Violence, and the State Roberto F......