Hakutulokset: Sarja Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
yhteensä 89 hakutulosta
Violent Resistance
Why do communities form militias to defend themselves against violence during civil war? Using original interviews with former combatants and civilians and archival material from …
Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing
This book explores social movements by analyzing an escalating spiral of tension between the Patriot movement and the state centered on the mutual framing of conflict as 'warfare'. …
Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution
The violence of Mao's China is well known, but its extreme form is not. In 1967 and 1968, during the Cultural Revolution, collective killings were widespread in rural China in the …
The Marketing of Rebellion
How do a few Third World political movements become global causes célèbres, while most remain isolated? This book rejects dominant views that needy groups readily gain help from …
Workers and Change in China
Strikes, protests, and riots by Chinese workers have been rising over the past decade. The state has addressed a number of grievances, yet has also come down increasingly hard on …
Clandestine Political Violence
Clandestine Political Violence compares four types of clandestine political violence: left-wing (in Italy and Germany), right-wing (in Italy), ethnonationalist (in Spain) and …
The Politics of Collective Violence
Are there any commonalities between such phenomena as soccer hooliganism, sabotage by peasants of landlords’ property, incidents of road rage, and even the recent events of …
Youth Movements and Elections in Eastern Europe
At the turn of the twenty-first century, a tide of nonviolent youth movements swept across Eastern Europe. Young people demanded political change in repressive political regimes …
Protectors of Pluralism
Protectors of Pluralism argues that local religious minorities are more likely to save persecuted groups from purification campaigns. Robert Braun utilizes a geo-referenced dataset …
Where Did the Revolution Go?
Where Did the Revolution Go? considers the apparent disappearance of the large social movements that have contributed to democratization. Revived by recent events of the Arab …
The Logic of Connective Action
The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as …
Dynamics of Contention
In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, …