Dynamics of Contention (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

Bibliographic Data

ID6529875
AuthorsDoug Mcadam (Stanford University), Sidney Tarrow (0000-0001-7159-0026, Cornell University), Charles Tilly (Columbia University), Douglas Mcadam
Year2001
Volume2
Issue1
Pages410
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byDynamics of Contention, Doug Mcadam, 2003
Reviewed byDynamics of Contention, Doug Mcadam, 2003
Reviewed byDynamics of Contention, Francesca Polletta, 2002
VenueDynamics of Contention (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics) (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511805431
ISBN9780511805431
Open LibraryOL7754979M
LanguageEN
Citations received2,578

In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another. This book was first published in 2001.

Collective behavior · Contentious politics · culturalist theory · Current Events · Democratization · General · Labor disputes · Political activism · political contention · Politics · rationalist theory · Revolution · Revolutions · Social movements · Social science · Social studies · Sociology · Sociology - General · Structuralism · Political Conflict and Governance · Political Theory and Democracy · Social Movements and Cultural Identity · Social Science · Sociology, Social Studies