The Social Movement Society (contentious Politics For A New Century)

Edited by Meyer David S.; Edited by Tarrow Sidney; Contributions by Crozat, Matthew; Contributions by Hipsher, Patricia L.; Contributions by Katzenstein Mary Fainsod; Contributions by Keck Margaret E.; Contributions by Klandermans Bert; Contributions
Short description/annotation:
Scholars consider ways in which the social movement has changed as a politics and how it changes the societies in which it occurs. This volume contains revealing perspectives on the effectiveness of social protest.
Description:
Is there more social protest now than there was prior to the movement politics of the 1960s, and if so, does it result in a distinctly less civil society throughout the world? If everybody protests, what does protest mean in advanced industrial societies? This volume brings together scholars from Europe and the U.S., and from both political science and sociology, to consider the ways in which the social movement has changed as a political form and the ways in which it continues to change the societies in which it is prevalent.
Table of contents:

Chapter 1 A Movement Society: Contentious Politics for a New Century
Chapter 2 The Structure and Culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950
Chapter 3 Are the Times A-Changin''? Assessing the Acceptance of Protest in Western Democracies
Chapter 4 The Institutionalization of Protest in the United States
Chapter 5 Policing Protest in France and Italy: From Intimidation to Cooperation? Donatella della Porta
Chapter 6 Institutionalization of Protest during Democratic Consolidation in Central Europe
Chapter 7 Democratic Transitions as Protest Cycles: Social Movement Dynamics in Democratizing Latin America
Chapter 8 A Movement Takes Office
Chapter 9 Stepsisters: Feminist Movement Activism in Different Institutional Spaces
Chapter 10 Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Movement Society

Biographical note:

David S. Meyer teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine.

Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University.

Description for collection:

This series explores the people, activities, and institutions that animate the political process. The series emphasizes recent changes in that process-new actors, movements, strategies, successes (or failures) to enter the political mainstream or influence everyday politics-and places these changes in context with the past and the future. Books in the series combine high-quality scholarship with accessibility so that they may be used as core or supplementary texts in upper division political science, sociology, and communication studies courses. The series is consciously interdisciplinary and encourages cross-discipline collaboration research.

Series Editor: John C. Green, University of Akron

Feature:
-A comparative look at the past, present, and future of social protest around the world
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-Includes essays on Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, and South Africa, as well as the U.S.
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-International contributors from political science and sociology combine to offer unique perspectives on movements ranging from feminist activism to anti-apartheid to protest policing