Political opportunities, social movements and democratization:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam JAI 2001
Edition:1st ed
Series:Research in social movements, conflicts, and change v. 23
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As political opportunities shift, social movement decline or mobilization may result. The first section of this intriguing 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. This volume's concentration on political opportunity and social movements is 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. They include movements including the U.S. 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. A shorter, but no less important section closes this volume while taking up another historic focus of the series: social and 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
Front Cover; POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND DEMOCRATIZATION; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY STRUCTURES, IDENTITY, AND SOCIAL MOVENENTS; CHAPTER 1. CULTURE AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNITY: RASTAFARIAN LINKS TO THE JAMAICAN POOR; CHAPTER 2. COMPROMISE IN SOUTH AFRICA: CLASS RELATIONS, POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES, AND THE CONTEXTUALIZED R̀̀IPE MOMENT'' FOR RESOLUTION; CHAPTER 3. EXPANDING POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES AND CHANGING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES IN THE COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERMATIVE MEDICINE MOVEMENT.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 331 pages)
ISBN:0080545408
0762307862
184950105X
9780080545400
9780762307869
9781849501057

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