In Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Non-democracies, Kurt Schock highlights the importance of nonviolent tactics when opposing non-democracies. Schock describes the outcomes of social movements in non-democracies by using components of both the political process model and the nonviolent action theory. Political process model focuses on various components that lead to a social movement’s [...]
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Paul Burstein, Rachel Einwohner, and Jocelyn Hollander describe the use of the bargaining perspective to describe the success of social movement outcomes in the article The Success of Political Movements: A Bargaining Perspective. Social movements use non-institutional tactics in order to bargain with elites since social movements do not have the resources to bargain with [...]
Verta Taylor uses the continuity of the women’s movement from the 1940s to the 1960s in the Unites States to explain social movement abeyance in the article Social Movement Continuity: The Women’s Movement in Abeyance. According to the author, “The term ‘abeyance’ depicts a holding process by which movements sustain themselves in nonreceptive political environments [...]
