In Power in Movements Sidney Tarrow explains the various dynamics of social movements. He treats social movements as rational and explains that they emerge when certain political opportunities arise. He concludes that cycles of contention will occur due to the fact that when a single social movement succeeds, it opens opens the door [...]
From the monthly archives:
September 2009
The Application of the Political Process Model to Explain of the American Civil Rights Movement
by Kate Calle on September 7, 2009
in Papers
In Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970, Doug McAdam argues the flaws of the resource mobilization model and the classical model in the explanation of social movements. He then presents a new model, the Political Process Model, and uses it to explain the rise and fall of the civil rights movement [...]
