Mobilization Forum
Response to Mcadam, Tarrow, and Tilly. Contentious Maps of Contentious Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7335707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Lichbach (0000-0002-2461-5013, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-98 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514 |
| Publisher | Mobilization Journal (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17813/maiq.2.1.2vvn806287165402 |
| OpenAlex | W2238617710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay responds to McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly's synthesis of the field of contentious politics (Mobilization I: 17-34). My intention is to stimulate a dialogue between two competing approaches—the rationalist's collective action research program (CARP), which I favor (Lichbach 1994; 1995; 1996) and the structuralist's synthetic political opportunity theory (SPOT), which McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly advocate. After outlining the basic presuppositions of SPOT and CARP, I criticize the possibility of a grand synthesis in the field of conflict studies or contentious politics by demonstrating the specific tensions of a CARP-SPOT consortium and the general problems of any synthesis. I conclude that we should take McAdam, Tarrow, and Tilly's call for contention in the field of contentious politics more seriously than their call for cumulation in a single crowning achievement, SPOT: We need creative confrontations, which should include well-defined and historically specific combinations, rather than a grand theoretical synthesis of the competing and conflicting research communities in the field
Collective action · Contentious politics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Social movement · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Political Conflict and Governance · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |