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Although grass-roots social movements are an important force of
social and political change, they quite often fail to achieve their
lofty goals. Similarly, the inability of research to systematically
explain the impact of such movements stands in sharp contrast to
their emotional appeal. "Protest, Opportunities, and Mechanisms"
attempts to rejuvenate current scholarship by developing a
comprehensive theory of social movements and political
change.
In addition to reviewing the existing literature on the political
outcomes of social movements, this volume analyzes the examples of
the American civil rights movement and anti-nuclear energy efforts
in eighteen countries to forge a new understanding of their
momentous impact.
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Schulausgaben Felix Kolbe A. Pockwitz, 1883
In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring
together the best current research on the nexus between the local
and the global in translating the global justice movement into
action at the grassroots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of
transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence
to the Argentinean human rights movement and British
environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to
the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distinguished scholars
presented in this volume adapt current social movement theory to
what appears to be a new cycle of protest developing around the
globe.
Is the process of European integration shifting the targets of
social movements from the national arena to the European Union
level? Does the EU remain isolated from the reach of national
democratic politics? Or are social movements responding to the
transnational issues posed by the European Union, but continuing to
do so by treading the traditional pathways of nation-specific
contentious politics? Addressing these key but hitherto unexplored
questions, this groundbreaking volume explores how European
citizens are responding to the growing policymaking power of the
EU. The contributors argue that the emergence of a supranational
realm of European government offers new opportunities and
constraints for domestic social actors. In this new transnational
realm, groups such as environmentalists, students, and trade
unionists can not only undertake traditional domestic forms of
contentious action, but also link together across national borders.
At the same time, the volume cautions against rushing to herald a
new era of transnational mobilization, as significant barriers
remain to launching contentious action in the transnational realm,
national governments continue to play a primary role in
policymaking before the EU, and tried-and-true routines of
collective action and institutions attach citizens to their
national political systems. At the heart of the book is a newly
developed theoretical framework, which is rigorously tested against
the evidence offered by the editors' longitudinal and
cross-national database on contentious political action, as well as
by a series of sector-specific case studies. The combination of
theory and original research will make this an important reference
for scholars as well as a valuable supplement in courses on
comparative politics, Western Europe, and social movements.
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