Power in Movement by Sidney G Tarrow

Power in Movement by Sidney G Tarrow

Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication and transnational diffusion.

'… this new edition of Power in Movement, like the previous ones, is a must-read for students of collective action and social movements and, more broadly, for those working in the fields of comparative politics and political sociology' CEU Political Science Journal

Sidney Tarrow (Ph.D. Berkeley, 1965) is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His recent books are Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly), Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig), Transnational Protest and Global Activism (co-edited with Donatella della Porta), The New Transnational Activism and Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly). He is currently researching war, state-building and human rights.

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ISBN 13	9780521155724
ISBN 10	052115572X
Titre	Power in Movement
Auteur	Sidney G Tarrow
Série	Cambridge Studies In Comparative Politics
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	2011-02-04
Nombre de pages	352
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