Power in Movement Social Movements and Contentious Politics Revised and Updated Third Edition

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Figures......Page 13
Tables......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 21
Introduction......Page 23
What was happening here?......Page 26
Social Movements in Contentious Politics......Page 28
Contentious collective action......Page 29
The Basic Properties of Movements......Page 30
Collective challenges......Page 31
Common purposes......Page 32
Sustaining contention......Page 33
An Outline of the Book......Page 34
Marx, lenin, gramsci, and tilly......Page 38
Marx and Class Conflict......Page 39
Lenin and Resource Mobilization......Page 40
Gramsci and Cultural Hegemony......Page 41
Summing Up......Page 42
Social scientists, social movements, and collective action......Page 43
Grievances and Collective Behavior Theory......Page 44
Rational Choice and Resource Mobilization......Page 45
Cultures of Contention......Page 47
The Political Process Model......Page 48
Toward a synthesis......Page 50
The Repertoire of Contention......Page 51
Networks and Mobilizing Structures......Page 52
Constructing Contention......Page 53
Political Opportunities and Threats......Page 54
The dynamics of movement......Page 55
Part I: The Birth of the Modern Social Movement......Page 57
2 Modular Collective Action......Page 59
Repertoires of contention......Page 61
The traditional repertoire......Page 63
Demanding Bread......Page 64
Asserting Belief......Page 65
Claiming Land......Page 66
Mobilizing around Death......Page 67
The modern repertoire......Page 69
From Effigies to Boycotts in America......Page 70
Mass Petitioning in England......Page 71
Public Meetings......Page 72
The Urban Insurrection in France......Page 73
The Social Construction of the Barricade......Page 75
Innovation and Counterinnovation......Page 76
Small change and historical transformations......Page 77
3 Print and Association......Page 79
A revolution in print......Page 80
Communities of Print......Page 82
Associations and movement networks......Page 84
The Modularity of Association......Page 86
Framing contention......Page 89
Weak Ties and Strong Movements......Page 90
Conclusions......Page 91
4 States, Capitalism, and Contention......Page 93
Capitalism and contention......Page 94
The Marxian Synthesis......Page 95
Polanyi and the Great Transformation......Page 97
Tocqueville and the Strength of the State......Page 99
State building and contention......Page 102
War and Contention in Britain......Page 103
Provisioning Food in France......Page 104
Levying Taxes in America......Page 106
The state as target and mediator......Page 107
Workers and the Ballot in America......Page 108
Repression and Citizenship......Page 109
Conclusions......Page 111
Part II: Powers in Movement......Page 115
5 Acting Contentiously......Page 117
The tea party......Page 118
What’s happening here?......Page 119
Performances and repertoires......Page 120
Disruption and innovation......Page 123
The Nonviolent Repertoire......Page 124
The Instability of Disruption......Page 125
The challenges of violence......Page 127
Warring Movements......Page 129
Suppressing Violence......Page 132
Conventionalizing the Strike......Page 133
Demonstrating in Public and for the Public......Page 134
Repertoire stability and change......Page 135
The American “Strong” Repertoire......Page 136
Innovation at the Margins......Page 137
Paradigmatic Change......Page 138
Conclusions......Page 139
6 Networks and Organizations......Page 141
What was happening here?......Page 142
Solidarity at the lenin shipyard......Page 143
Modes of Organizing......Page 145
The social democratic model......Page 146
The Anarchist Counter-Model......Page 147
Competitive Legitimation and Diffusion......Page 148
Recurring Polarities......Page 149
The new grassroots alternatives......Page 150
Amending the Iron Law: Organizational Hybrids......Page 151
The tyranny of decentralization......Page 153
Networks within and beyond Organizations......Page 154
External innovations......Page 155
Internal innovations......Page 156
Professionalizing leadership......Page 157
Franchising, appropriating, and burrowing within institutions......Page 158
Digitizing Movement Organization......Page 159
Conclusions......Page 160
Demolishing a mosque......Page 162
What is happening here?......Page 164
Framing Contention......Page 166
Injustice Framing......Page 167
Bricolage......Page 168
Media Framing......Page 169
Crystallizing identities......Page 171
Doing emotion work......Page 174
The Muhammad Cartoons......Page 175
Different Emotion Cultures......Page 176
Conclusions......Page 177
A collapsing regime......Page 179
What is happening here?......Page 181
Opportunities and Threats......Page 182
From societal to political structuration......Page 183
Strike waves and political opportunity......Page 184
“Objective” and perceived opportunities......Page 185
Shifting alignments......Page 187
Influential allies......Page 188
Expanding others’ opportunities......Page 189
Making opportunities for elites and parties......Page 190
Declining opportunities......Page 191
Suppression and the Threat of Suppression......Page 192
Coercive control......Page 193
Channeling contention......Page 194
Protest management or quieter protesters?......Page 195
The effects of coercion on protest......Page 196
State strength, centralization and decentralization......Page 197
Prevailing strategies......Page 199
War, coercion, and contention......Page 200
Conclusions......Page 201
Part III: Dynamics of Contention......Page 203
9 Mechanisms and Processes of Contention......Page 205
Interactive contention......Page 206
What's Up, DOC?......Page 208
Mechanisms of Mobilization and Demobilization......Page 210
Mechanisms of Demobilization......Page 212
Campaigning and Coalition Formation......Page 213
Diffusion and Scale Shift......Page 214
Conclusions......Page 215
The first modern cycle......Page 217
Definition and Elements of Cycles......Page 221
Opportunities and Cycles......Page 223
Phases of opportunity and constraint......Page 224
Innovations in Cycles......Page 225
Dynamic Elements in Contentious Cycles......Page 226
The diffusion of conflict......Page 227
Exhaustion......Page 228
Radicalization/Institutionalization......Page 229
Repression and Facilitation......Page 230
Facilitation......Page 231
Revolutionary and Nonrevolutionary Cycles......Page 232
Conclusions......Page 234
The ambiguity of policy outcomes......Page 237
Strikes and Other Outcomes......Page 239
The Political Is Personal......Page 242
From One Activism to Another......Page 244
Failed explosions and slow-spreading sparks......Page 246
The Exploding French Student Movement......Page 247
The Slow-Moving American Women's Movement......Page 249
Comparing French Students and American Women......Page 252
Reshaping political culture......Page 253
Conclusions......Page 255
12 Transnational Contention......Page 256
Actors Inside and Outside the Polity......Page 257
Seattle and after......Page 259
The world of ngos......Page 261
Transnational social movements......Page 263
Ngos and social movement interactions......Page 264
Globalization and Contention......Page 265
Complex Internationalization......Page 267
Legalization and Human Rights......Page 270
Local/Global interactions......Page 272
Two Internal Processes......Page 273
Transnational Diffusion......Page 274
Two International Processes......Page 276
Conclusions......Page 279
Conclusions: The Future of Social Movements......Page 281
What Is Happening Here?......Page 283
What history teaches – and does not......Page 284
Old and New Repertoires......Page 286
Repertoires, Mobilizing Structures, and Framing......Page 287
Opportunities, Cycles, and the Ends of Movements......Page 288
Warring Movements......Page 289
The Containment of Contention......Page 290
The Suppression of Contention......Page 293
Emerging challenges......Page 294
Sources......Page 297
Index......Page 337