Political Opportunities Social Movements, and Democratization

ISBN-13: 9780762307869 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 344 str.

P. G. Coy; Patrick G. Coy; Coy P. G. Coy

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As political opportunities shift, social movement, decline or mobilization may result. The first section of this volume examines this phenomenon in depth while also moving theory-building forward. Significant contributions are made to collective identity theory, stalemate theory, and political process theory. accomplished through a focused series of papers that include case studies of specific social movements, comparative case studies of social movements, and comparative case studies of transnational issue networks. The movements discussed include the US anti-nuclear power movement, the Rastafarians, the alternative and complimentary medicine movement, indigenous rights movements in Panama and Brazil, the animal rights movement, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, and the housing reform movements in post-Soviet Union Moscow and Budapest. political change. Here one paper documents democratization in Wales via the use of inclusive politics by Plaid Cymru, another analyzes the use of political homicide in Mexico during the 1990s, and a third explores campus unrest in the United States.