Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book offers a transnational and transdisciplinary investigation of violence, ranging from bullying and hate crimes to revolutions, genocide, and terrorism. It offers empirical investigations of these specific types of violence as well as theoretical discussions of the underlying similarities and differences among these forms of violence.

Violence. --- Small groups --- Collective behavior. --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- Violent behavior --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Business planning. --- Collective behavior --- Economic aspects. --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- Business enterprises --- Business plans --- Corporate planning --- Corporate strategy --- Corporations --- Strategy, Corporate --- Planning --- Strategic planning --- Psychology

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book contains the products of work carried out over four decades of research in Italy, France and the United States, and in the intellectual territory between social movements, comparative politics, and historical sociology. Using a variety of methods ranging from statistical analysis to historical case studies to linguistic analysis, the book centers on historical catalogs of protest events and cycles of collective action. Sidney Tarrow places social movements in the broader arena of contentious politics, in relation to states, political parties and other actors. From peasants and communists in 1960s Italy, to movements and politics in contemporary western polities, to the global justice movement in the new century, the book argues that contentious actors are neither outside of nor completely within politics, but rather they occupy the uncertain territory between total opposition and integration into policy.

Social change --- Political sociology --- Collective behavior --- Political sociology. --- Social action --- Social movements --- Political science --- History. --- General. --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Sociology --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social psychology --- Social policy --- Social problems --- Sociological aspects --- Psychology --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to guard against forces such as the mass mobilizations that toppled European democracies after World War I. Avritzer challenges this view. Drawing on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas, he argues that democracy can be far more inclusive and can rely on a sphere of autonomous association and argument by citizens. He makes this argument by showing that democratic collective action has opened up a new "public space" for popular participation in Latin American politics. Unlike many theorists, Avritzer builds his case empirically. He looks at human rights movements in Argentina and Brazil, neighborhood associations in Brazil and Mexico, and election-monitoring initiatives in Mexico. Contending that such participation has not gone far enough, he proposes a way to involve citizens even more directly in policy decisions. For example, he points to experiments in "participatory budgeting" in two Brazilian cities. Ultimately, the concept of such a space beyond the reach of state administration fosters a broader view of democratic possibility, of the cultural transformation that spurred it, and of the tensions that persist, in a region where democracy is both new and different from the Old World models.

Democracy --- Collective behavior --- Political culture --- Political participation --- Démocratie --- Comportement collectif --- Culture politique --- Participation politique --- Political aspects --- Aspect politique --- #SBIB:328H32 --- #SBIB:324H20 --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- Instellingen en beleid: Midden en Latijns-Amerika --- Politologie: theorieën (democratie, comparatieve studieën….) --- Psychology --- Démocratie

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.

#SBIB:324H74 --- Politieke verandering: sociale bewegingen --- Collective behavior --- Social change --- Social movements --- Behavior, Collective --- Crowd behavior --- Crowds --- Mass behavior --- Human behavior --- Social action --- Social psychology --- History --- Psychology --- Community organization --- History. --- Mouvements sociaux --- Comportement collectif --- Changement social --- Histoire --- 840 Samenleving en staat --- 843 Middenveld --- 844 Sociale structuur --- 841.3 Politieke bewegingen --- Social movements - History --- Collective behavior - History --- Social change - History --- Social Sciences --- Political Science