Date: 2019
Type: Article
Mobilization forum : comments on Kriesi, Hutter, and Bojar : incremental steps to major innovations
Mobilization : an international quarterly, 2019, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 274-292[POLCON]
TARROW, Sidney, Mobilization forum : comments on Kriesi, Hutter, and Bojar : incremental steps to major innovations, Mobilization : an international quarterly, 2019, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 274-292[POLCON] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64745
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Every so often, social scientists hit upon a scheme that aims to revolutionize the field they work in by making what they see as major innovations. In 2001, Doug McAdam, the late Charles Tilly, and I had such an ambition. We claimed, first, that the field we called “contentious politics” had been specified too narrowly it was, in a later formulation, too “social movementcentered” (McAdam and Boudet 2012). We also wanted to know how institutional and noninstitutional contention intersect to produce not-wholly-predictable outcomes. And we wanted to move away from familiar causal language with a mechanism-based approach that focused on the “how” of dynamic sequences of contention. To reinforce our critique and implement our ambitions, we surveyed a wide range of contentious episodes, ranging from ordinary conflicts, like strikes and demonstrations within functioning democracies, to civil conflicts, wars, and revolutions.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/64745
Full-text via DOI: 10.17813/1086-671X-24-3-274
ISSN: 1086-671X
Series/Number: [POLCON]
Publisher: San Diego State University
Grant number: FP7/338875/EU
Sponsorship and Funder information:
ERC POLCON project funded.
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