Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7105268 |
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| Authors | P Oliver (0000-0001-7643-1008, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 385-385 |
| Publication date | 1993-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement, Dennis Chong, 1991 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2074514 |
| OpenAlex | W2080681176 |
| Language | EN |
Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movement is a theoretical study of the dynamics of public-spirited collective action as well as a substantial study of the American civil rights movement and the local and national politics that surrounded it. In this major historical application of rational choice theory to a social movement, Dennis Chong reexamines the problem of organizing collective action by focusing on the social, psychological, and moral incentives of political activism that are often neglected by rational choice theorists. Using game theoretic concepts as well as dynamic models, he explores how rational individuals decide to participate in social movements and how these individual decisions translate into collective outcomes. In addition to applying formal modeling to the puzzling and important social phenomenon of collective action, he offers persuasive insights into the political and psychological dynamics that provoke and sustain public activism. This remarkably accessible study demonstrates how the civil rights movement succeeded against difficult odds by mobilizing community resources, resisting powerful opposition, and winning concessions from the government
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Civil rights · Collective action · Law and economics · Movement (music · Physics · Political science · Politics · Quantum mechanics · Sociology · Academic Freedom and Politics · American History and Culture · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law
Formal Models of Collective Action
Reform and Rebellion in Weak States
The civil rights movement and the logic of social change
Intersecting viruses
Le paradoxe de la rébellion
Protest and the scale politics of telecommunications
Contingent valuation and the activation of environmental norms
Using contingent valuation to explore willingness to pay for renewable energy
How Strong are Strong Ties? The Conditional Effectiveness of Strong Ties in Protest Recruitment Attempts
Representing Social Movements
Reputation and cooperative behavior
Explaining Urban Regimes
How Do Voluntary Organizations Foster Protest? The Role of Organizational Involvement on Individual Protest Participation
Does Antiregime Action Under Communist Rule Affect Political Protest After the Fall
The Civil Rights Movement's Struggle for Fair Employment
The Image of God
La coupe est pleine Videla ! Le Mundial 1978 entre politisation et dépolitisation
The Logic of Connective Action
Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador
Comparative Perspectives on Contentious Politics
Revisiting the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
Political Protest and Civil Disobedience
Political Ideologies and Political Parties in America
Social Networks Matter. But How?
Public Participation and Local Environmental Planning
Persistence of Power, Elites, and Institutions
Where Did the Revolution Go
Social Movements in Contentious Politics
The Student as a Force for Social Change
Equilibria of collective action in different distributions of protest thresholds
What is is always becoming what ought to be
The Dynamics of Political Protest
Performing Protest and Protesting Performance
Information and nonmarket strategy
Europeanization or endogenous institutional change? The case of Turkey
Religious Change and Politics
Die Erklärungsaufgabe der Soziologie und das Problem der Rationalität
Mechanismische Erklärungen und die „Anatomie des Sozialen”
Nationalism and Direct Rule
Sustainable Disaster Recovery
Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Incorporation
Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs
The Language of Contention
The Political Origins of Religious Liberty
Choosing an Identity
Electoral Protest and Democracy in the Developing World
Understanding selection bias, time-lags and measurement bias in secondary data sources
The Power of Place? Testing the Geographic Determinants of African‐American and White Voter Turnout
Who dissents? Self-efficacy and opposition action after state-sponsored election violence
Conflicting Identities
How much terror? Dissidents, governments, institutions, and the cross-national study of terror attacks
Disability Identity and Attitudes Toward Cure in a Sample of Disabled Activists
Exit-Voice Dynamics in Collective Action
Resources and Resourcefulness
Strikes as Forest Fires
Learning from Other People's Actions
Prison Riots as Microrevolutions
Ambiguity and Choice in Political Movements
"An Elusive "We
Patrimony and Collective Capacity
In the Name of the God Who Will Be
Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms
Implicit Ingroup Favoritism, Outgroup Favoritism, and Their Behavioral Manifestations
Contemporary Social Psychological Theories
Escalating Moral Obligation in the Wisconsin Uprising of 2011
Collective action and network change
What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter
Knowledge and networks
A Comparative Analysis of Black Racial Group Consciousness in the United States and Britain
Communists and Compromisers
The Comparative Statics of Collective Action
Homophily, networks, and critical mass
Repression and Revolutionary Action
Making a case for the rational, self‐regarding, ‘ethical’ voter… and solving the ‘Paradox of not voting’ in the process
Same-sex marriage in China? The strategic promulgation of a progressive policy and its impact on LGBT activism
A study on inter-city cooperation in the Yangtze river delta region, China
Identification of voters with interest groups improves the electoral chances of the challenger
The Political Economy of State Fair Housing Laws before 1968
The Problem of Solidarity in Insurgent Collective Action
Patterns of Politics in Canada's Immigrant-Receiving Cities and Suburbs
Tiananmen Square Thirteen Years After
Social cohesion and self-sacrificing behavior
Coordination, Communication, and Information
Packed pews
Open Source Political Community Development
Human Rights Violations, Weak States, and Civil War
Continuous Time Models of Collective Action and Political Change
Hunger for Power and Order
Group Identity and Symbolic Political Behavior
Thinking outside the box
The political economy of ethnic mobilisation
Youth collective activism through social media
Mechanisms of Policy Change
The Political Economy of Water Policy in Israel
Political engagement trajectories of youth activists following recruitment into high-intensity mobilisation
Grassroots mobilization and Diaspora politics
Ideology, uncertainty and the rise of anti‐system parties in post‐communist Russia
Political Participation through the Judicial System
Remodeling Collective Violence
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