Power in Movement, Revised and Updated Third Edition
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 history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war and colonialism and puts forward a theory to explain their cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes their 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 as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication, and transnational diffusion.
Sidney G. Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. His recent books include Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly), Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig), Transnational Protest and Global Activism (coedited with Donatella della Porta), The New Transnational Activism , and Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly). He is currently researching war, state building, and human rights.
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
General Editor
Margaret Levi
University of Washington, Seattle
Assistant General Editors
Kathleen Thelen
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Erik Wibbels
Duke University
Associate Editors
Robert H. Bates
Harvard University
Stephen Hanson
University of Washington, Seattle
Torben Iversen
Harvard University
Stathis Kalyvas
Yale University
Peter Lange
Duke University
Helen Milner
Princeton University
Frances Rosenbluth
Yale University
Susan Stokes
Yale University
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