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Research in social movements, conflicts and change / edited by Patrick G. Coy

Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier JAI, 2007

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (1 volume)

Research in social movements, conflicts, and change ; v. 27

Includes bibliographical references

978-0-08-048069-5 ; 0-08-048069-1 ; 978-0-7623-1318-1

 

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change contains a strong collection of theoretically rich and data-driven papers, which address a series of interrelated questions that are at the forefront of today's social movement scholarship. For example, political opportunity theory has been justly criticized for privileging structure over agency, politics over culture, and for failing to adequately specify how political opportunities differ for social movements in democracies vs. in non-democracies. In this volume, political opportunity theory receives careful, empirically-info.